Create Projects In Project Server 2003 using PDS?

[frankSinatra]

Hi,

I am a newby to project server and have been asked to look into creating
multiple projects through a webapp or form application. My questions are
generic. So I start a web app and start to add references.

I have added: ....projectserver/pds.wsdl
I have added: msxml4.dll
What else is needed for the app to interface with Project?

Ultimately, I have 300 projects that will need to be created and I'm trying
to automate this through a creation tool.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks,
FS

 

[Rod Gill]

PDS has been completely replaced by PSI for Project Server 2007 so be aware
that anything you do will need almost complete re-writing for 2007. As an
interim the fastest way might be to have the web app save data to a
database,, then read the data from the database in VBA and create the
project that way.

If many of your projects are similar, then create a template and use the
template to create a new project. Then you only need to worry about
differences between template and new project.

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[frankSinatra]

Thanks Rod!

I have found the extender kit and have managed to at least log onto the
server. Now when I try to get a response back by using the
"webSvc.SoapXMLRequest(psCookie, PROJECTSSTATUS)" statement I'm getting a
weird error that tells me the machine running the services is not allowing
remote debugging, which is where the PDS.wsdl webservice is running. Is this
normal? What I have done so far is created a class library from the extender
kit and referenced this in my project.
Thanks for the pointers and if you have any idea of why I am not able to
talk freely with the service, please let me know.

Thanks,
FS

 

[Rod Gill]

Sorry, I relegated PDS and PSI into the too hard basket some time ago. There
are very few PDS posts in the groups now so if there aren't any answers in
the 2003 SDK or on MSDN then you may be out of luck unless you pay for an
expert.

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Rod Gill
Project MVP

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