Publishing problem too

[Richiee]

I'd developed an application in .net to create project plans and set custom
fields. The applications works fine, create project plans and set the data
to proper custom fields.

The problem is that in Project Center Views can't see the data of custom
fields, simply don't appears.

If I open the project plan in Project Professional I can see all data in the
proper custom fields indicating that my application set the data correctly.

To see the data in Project Center Views I need open in Project in Project
Professional Save and Publish.

I'm using Project Server 2003 and Project Professional 2003.

Thank's

 

[Kris R.]

This is not a bug, it's a feature.

That is, you are correct, you cannot see the values of the custom fields in
PWA unless you publish, and there is no publish functionality in the API.
The only workaround I know of is to programmatically instantiate a project
application, load the project and do a publish in your code. This is not
very reliable, because if there is a problem, project will open a dialog
box, and wait for user input, so the publish just hangs unless you have
someone monitoring the application. Furthermore, this requires that Project
Pro be installed on the machine where you are running your .NET application.

This is a definite shortcoming of the Project Server API. Hopefully the new
version of Project Server will enable complete publish functionality via the
API.

Kris R.