Master Projects in 2003 Project Server & 2003 Prof

[Rob]

We upgraded from Project 2000 hoping that we could get away from
building a Master to level 150+ shared resources involving 100+
projects at any given time, while planning projects as far out as 3
years. We use "Finish No Later Than" dates on the projects to allow
flexability in the actual start dates while looking at all the project
required dates.

After installing 2003 we could not find a way to accomplish this with
out building a Master. After doing that I can see why they don't
advise to build masters.

1) Is there another way to level all resources and all projects
without a Master?

2) To open the master takes 5-6 minutes to open and 7-8 minutes to
save.

3) Resource availability and "work" does not show up in the Enterprise
Global Rsource Pool,while all projects are using resources from this
pool. Is this the way is works? We also cannot get the resource
availability to show on Web Acess for any dates now or in the future.

4) Can you remane project files on the server?

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Rob --

1. No. You must open either the master project or open every project
individually. Using the master project is obviously the simpler method.

2. Given the size of your master project, these numbers are probably not
unusual.

3. Resource availability and work is not displayed in the Enterprise
Resource Pool. If you need to see these numbers, apply the Resource Usage
view in your master project. Regarding your second problem, it sounds like
your OLAP cube is not building. Ask your Project Server administrator to
check the OLAP cube settings and status in PWA by clicking Admin - Manage
enterprise features - Update resource tables and OLAP cube.

4. Yes. You must use the Rename Project Utility, available for free
download at the following URL:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...49-f0ff-4846-9ec1-4add5e493fa6&DisplayLang=en

Hope this helps.

 

[Rob]

Thanks for the help...............

Rob --

1. No. You must open either the master project or open every project
individually. Using the master project is obviously the simpler method.

2. Given the size of your master project, these numbers are probably not
unusual.

3. Resource availability and work is not displayed in the Enterprise
Resource Pool. If you need to see these numbers, apply the Resource Usage
view in your master project. Regarding your second problem, it sounds like
your OLAP cube is not building. Ask your Project Server administrator to
check the OLAP cube settings and status in PWA by clicking Admin - Manage
enterprise features - Update resource tables and OLAP cube.

4. Yes. You must use the Rename Project Utility, available for free
download at the following URL:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...49-f0ff-4846-9ec1-4add5e493fa6&DisplayLang=en

Hope this helps.