MS Project 2003 Work Offline

[Mukul Jain]

Hi,
I am working with MS Project Professional 2003 and how can I open a project
in R/W, save to local disc, work from home offline and then check back into
PS when I’m done?

Thanks
Rahul

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Rahul --

In the future, please post your Project Server questions in the
microsoft.public.project.server newsgroup, as this newsgroup is devoted to
the Microsoft Project desktop application only. To answer your question,
refer to the following FAQ:

http://www.projectserverexperts.com/Shared Documents/offlineprojects.htm

Hope this helps.

 

[Mukul Jain]

sorry Dale, but please can you tell me my question is not belongs to MS
Project Professional 2003 desktop application category, and if not then what
is the pattern to identifies the category of the question who is Project
Server related question or who’s comes under project Professional.
so many times when I post my questions, I got this response I am not able to
find which one is for Project Prof. or which one for project Server.

-Rahul

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Mukul --

Working in Offline mode is strictly a Project Server question, since Offline
projects are a feature of Project Server only. If you are using Project
Server, I would recommend that you ask all questions in the
microsoft.public.project.server newsgroup. Hope this helps.

 

[Colin Atobajeun]

Dale, I checked the server thread and this topic is not being addressed. The
solution you posted works, if you save offline on your laptop, however, if
you have a desktop in the office (that is connected to the backend), and you
want to take the project file with you on your laptop, how do you get the
"offline" file from the desktop to your laptop or even simpler, to your Thumb
drive?

I saved offline and cannot find the file anywhere. TIA

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Colin --

You need to connect to Project Server using Project Professional 2003 on
your laptop. Then you can save the project in Offline mode and work on it
at home. Hope this helps.

 

[Colin Atobajeun]

I appreciate the quick response, but it actually does not help. Is there a
workaround to this? Like, where does the project file get saved when its
"offline"?

 

[Crook]

Hi Colin,

Regrettably, there is no workaround to the instrucitons Dale gave. Projects
checked out to be worked on in an offline mode are thoroughly inaccessable.
You must save them offline using your laptop.

HTH,
Crook

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Colin --

The workaround is to log into Project Server using Project Professional 2003
on your laptop. You cannot use any other method. Hope this helps.

 

[Colin Atobajeun]

Thanks Crook, appreciate the feedback. Do you know if this is the same
"feature" in 2007

 

[Colin Atobajeun]

Thanks Dale, appreciate the feedback. Do you know if this is the same
"feature" in 2007

 

[Crook]

Hi Colin,

I have not thoroughly investigated this, so I don't know. You may find a
way to do this by messing around with the cache files. Maybe Dale knows.

Sorry,
Crook