How do I clean up pollution in my Enterprise template?

[Teresa S]

Project 2007 using EPM. I made a change in my Enterprise template and now
one of my custom fields is polluted. I tried opening an existing project as
read-only, opening the template and then opening Enterprise Global, closing
the existing project with no changes, saving the template and saving
Enterprise Global but the pollution is still there. How do I fix this?
TIA
Teresa

 

[Ben Howard]

Do you archive the Entprise Global on a scheduled basis.

 

[Gary L. Chefetz [MVP]]

Teresa:

You should never open a project file of any type while you have The E-Global
file open. This causes pollution. Can you be more specific about the problem
you are having? What exactly is the problem? Describe the symptoms.

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Gary L. Chefetz, MVP
MSProjectExperts
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[Teresa S]

OK, Ben - no we are not archiving yet.
Gary - I was following the procedures outlined in your book Implementing and
Administering Project Server 2007 pg 617-618 where you talk about opening an
enterprise project read-only, then create custom views, etc. the open
enterprise global, use the organizer to copy over, etc.

So what happened is I opened my Enterprise project template and added a
header row, saved. Then one of my project managers reported that when she
opened the template to save as a new project, one of our custom fields shows
an entry from a different custom field table. Specifically in our project
indicator field which should have choices of On Time, Problems, Unrecoverable
or Null Status. The On Time is not there and G5.SP2 is showing which is from
our Project Classification table. To correct the problem I was following the
steps from your book as if I were creating some new globals. I opened an
enterprise project Read-only, opened the enterprise template, made no changes
to either, opened the Enterprise global, closed the project with no changes,
saved the template and then saved the Enterprise global. But the pollution
is still there.

Thanks for the responses and thanks for the books, they are life-savers.
Teresa

 

[Gary L. Chefetz [MVP]]

Teresa:

The instructions you refer to are for moving custom views and other related
objects into the Enterprise Global file. What do you mean by "I added a
header row" and are you referring to a an Enterprise Project Template, or
are you referring to the Enterprise Global file? It is very important to use
the correct terms so that we're on the same page.

The corrective steps you mention at the bottom of your post would do nothing
to remove pollution and could possibly cause it if you weren't very careful.
We need to better understand what the pollution is and I'm afraid I can't
get it from your post.

I suggest that you delete the local cache for both yourself and the other
user and see if that doesn't resolve the problem. On each workstation

Start > Run
Type in : %Appdata%
Navigate to microsoft/ms project
Delete everything below that file


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Gary L. Chefetz, MVP
MSProjectExperts
For Project Server Consulting: http://www.msprojectexperts.com
For Project Server FAQS: http://www.projectserverexperts.com

 

[Teresa S]

Thanks Gary. I'm having problems with an Enterprise Project Template. In
that template we don't have any tasks, we only have headers and subheaders
for people to list their tasks under. So I added a subheader row in the
template. In our template the custom fields we've defined for all projects
(that reside in the Enterprise Global file) have to be filled out. The
pollution is showing in the default entry for one of the fields. It is
showing an entry from a completely different table.

I used the steps I mentioned before when our Enterprise Global got the same
type of pollution when I created custom views and tables. Since the
pollution is similar I thought maybe these steps would apply. But I only
added a row to our Enterprise Project Template, I didn't change any views or
tables.

I haven't tried emptying the local cache. This pollution is showing up for
everyone not just two of us. Would I need to tell everyone to empty their
local cache?
Thanks!!
Teresa

 

[Teresa S]

I cleaned out my local cache and that did get rid of the pollution. Thanks
bunches for that.
Teresa

 

[Gary L. Chefetz [MVP]]

Do the same for everyone who has a computer exhibiting the symptoms.

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Gary L. Chefetz, MVP
MSProjectExperts
For Project Server Consulting: http://www.msprojectexperts.com
For Project Server FAQS: http://www.projectserverexperts.com