Easy way to temporarily make plans read-only?

[Matt Kennedy]

One day a week I need to perform quite a bit of analysis on about 20-25
different project plans on our project server (Proejct Server 2003). It would
be great if there was an easy/simple/quick way to lock all these plans as
read-only for everyone including the designated project manager for one day
each week. I have full administrator rights to the server. Any ideas?

I suppose if I had thought of this initially when we setup the server there
may have been some way to accomplish this using categories...

Thanks!
-Matt

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Matt --

If you are willing to spend the time performing the following action over
and over again, here's how to make all the projects Read-Only on a temporary
basis:

1. Log into PWA with administrator permissions
2. Click Admin - Manage users and groups
3. Click the Groups link in the sidepane on the left
4. Select the Project Managers group and click the Modify Group button
5. In the Categories section, select the My Projects category
6. In the Permissions grid of the Categories section, deselect the Allow
permission for Save Project (DO NOT select the Deny permission)
7. Click the Save Changes button

The above steps assume you have not made other changes to the default
permissions in Project Server. When you want to return Read/Write
permissions to your project managers, reverse step #6 above. Hope this
helps.

 

[Matt Kennedy]

Thanks Dale, that may get me going in the right direction. The only caveat is
that I can't impact the project managers that are managing plans that are not
a part of this project. In other words I need to limit the impact of my
change to only a subset of the project managers/project plans on the server.

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Matt --

If that is the case, then my answer won't work. Therefore, I would
recommend that you simply make this a methodology among the subset of
project managers whose projects you wish to examine. Train them that on one
particular day of the week, they should not open any of their projects
Read/Write. Hope this helps.

 

[Matt Kennedy]

OK. Thank you Dale.

Matt --

If that is the case, then my answer won't work. Therefore, I would
recommend that you simply make this a methodology among the subset of
project managers whose projects you wish to examine. Train them that on one
particular day of the week, they should not open any of their projects
Read/Write. Hope this helps.

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Matt --

You are welcome, my friend!

OK. Thank you Dale.