Publishing Projects when Resource Pool Changes

[dt @ dsc]

We are currently using MS Project 2003 Enterprise and our Resource Pool has
approximately 400 individuals. I recently updated the resource pool with the
latest cost information and discovered the changes were reflected in the
actual projects in MS Project, but did not update in PWA or Portfolio
Analyzer when the cube was rebuilt until I published the project.

Is this standard? I currently have over 600 projects in the server and it
will take an enormous amount of time to re-publish all of those projects. Is
there some quicker way to re-publish without entering all projects separately?

I appreciate any assistance available on this issue.

Thanks,
Debbie

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Debbie --

Yes, this is standard behavior. To see project changes in PWA or the
Portfolio Analyzer, you must publish the project changes to PWA. A quick
way to publish every project without opening each project separately in
Microsoft Project Professional is to download and use the View Populator
Tool for Project Server 2003, available at:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...d5-3cdb-4a57-a1fd-748bf968d48b&DisplayLang=en

Using this tool, you can publish single or multiple projects simultaneously.
Hope this helps.

 

[dt @ dsc]

Thanks for the info. I'll try that. dt

Debbie --

Yes, this is standard behavior. To see project changes in PWA or the
Portfolio Analyzer, you must publish the project changes to PWA. A quick
way to publish every project without opening each project separately in
Microsoft Project Professional is to download and use the View Populator
Tool for Project Server 2003, available at:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...d5-3cdb-4a57-a1fd-748bf968d48b&DisplayLang=en

Using this tool, you can publish single or multiple projects simultaneously.
Hope this helps.

 

[Silvia Rivero]

Hi,

I have a question....
When I re-publish projects using View Populator Tool, this publish is
similar at what type of publich of Project Professional?
1) Publish All Information
2) New and modify assignments
3) Project Plan
4) Republish all assignement

If I want to overwrite actual work can I use View Populator or have to
publish using Project Professional necessary?

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Silvia --

In the future, please post your Project Server questions in the
microsoft.public.project.server newsgroup as this newsgroup is shutting
down. To answer your question, I never had much success with the View
Populator Tool. It just never seemed to work. I think it's intent was to
do a Collaborate - Publish - All Information, but I could never confirm that
because it didn't seem to do anything. Perhaps you have had better success
than I. Hope this helps.