Custom Fields in Activity Plan Task Creation

[Shawn Everingham]

First, thanks in advance your help.

So, I have created a custom field for the entity task. In a project plan, I
can add this column and populate it based upon a custom defined look up
table. It works just fine.

I added the custom field to Task Summary view, which is what you see when
you VIEW an activity plan. Activity plans, remember, cannot be opened in
Project (or at least I cannot see it nor open it or edit it in MS Project).

The question is, when I create these tasks in my activity plan, How do I set
that custom field? as it is not available in task setup for Activity plans.

Thanks again!

Shawn

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Shawn --

You cannot specify custom enterprise Task field values for tasks in an
Activity plan. It's one of the limitations of Activity plans. Hope this
helps.

 

[Shawn Everingham]

yes Dale, it does help, but another GRRRRRR!!!! for MS.

Hey, thanks for all your help the other day on that permissions issue.

One thing I think would of been helpful to mention was the fact that when
you add a category to a specific role, you still have to set the fields
appropriately per role.

I was bringing over My Projects, My Organization, My Personal Projects and
the field settings below were all blank. I figured that those fields were an
override (if needed) to the already default values for each category.

That would of been extremely helpful to know, but reading that chapter in
your book, I GOT IT NOW!!!!! WHEW!

Thanks again! Cheers!

Shawn
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Technology, like art, is a soaring stretch of our imagination...Daniel Bell.
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MSPS 2007
MS Server 2003

Shawn --

You cannot specify custom enterprise Task field values for tasks in an
Activity plan. It's one of the limitations of Activity plans. Hope this
helps.

 

[Shawn Everingham]

I bet I can set them on the database end of things...thoughts?

thanks!
--
Technology, like art, is a soaring stretch of our imagination...Daniel Bell.
1919
------------------------------
MSPS 2007
MS Server 2003

Shawn --

You cannot specify custom enterprise Task field values for tasks in an
Activity plan. It's one of the limitations of Activity plans. Hope this
helps.

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Shawn --

Yes, I suppose that would be possible, but remember that Microsoft does not
recommend making direct changes to the Project Server 2007 databases. That
is why they have shared the database scheme for only the Reporting database.
Hope this helps.

I bet I can set them on the database end of things...thoughts?

thanks!

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Shawn --

When you open a security Group for editing and then select a Category, the
Permissions grid displays for that Category. Because you read that Module
in our book, you now know that the Permissions grid is the "interaction"
between the Group and the Category. If you think of Groups and Categories
the way we document them in the book, that will help you greatly in
administering the Project Server 2007 security environment. I'm glad you
got things straightened out!

yes Dale, it does help, but another GRRRRRR!!!! for MS.

Hey, thanks for all your help the other day on that permissions issue.

One thing I think would of been helpful to mention was the fact that when
you add a category to a specific role, you still have to set the fields
appropriately per role.

I was bringing over My Projects, My Organization, My Personal Projects and
the field settings below were all blank. I figured that those fields were
an
override (if needed) to the already default values for each category.

That would of been extremely helpful to know, but reading that chapter in
your book, I GOT IT NOW!!!!! WHEW!

Thanks again! Cheers!

Shawn

 

[Shawn Everingham]

yes, that I am aware of...but what about C# customizations? do they support
that?
--
Technology, like art, is a soaring stretch of our imagination...Daniel Bell.
1919
------------------------------
MSPS 2007
MS Server 2003

Shawn --

Yes, I suppose that would be possible, but remember that Microsoft does not
recommend making direct changes to the Project Server 2007 databases. That
is why they have shared the database scheme for only the Reporting database.
Hope this helps.

I bet I can set them on the database end of things...thoughts?

thanks!

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Shawn --

I do not believe Microsoft will support any external changes to data in the
Project Server databases, whether by C# or by any other means. You may want
to pose this question in the microsoft.public.project.developer newsgroup to
get a more definitive answer. Hope this helps.

 

[Gary L. Chefetz]

Shawn:

Microsoft supports updating this through the PSI, not directly in the
database tables.

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