Publishing versions - need clarification

[Marcus Pierce]

In one of Dale's many helful responses, he states that: "The only version
that a PM can publish is the Published version, so you will not have problems
with resources seeing duplicate assignments and the like."
http://www.microsoft.com/office/com...5b780e-ac35-4421-b648-f87c63ef3c3d&sloc=en-us

However, in another post, he writes, "To make the new Version of each
project visible in the PWA Project Center page, your PM's must click
Collaborate - Publish - Project Plan. If they fail to do this final step,
their alternate Version will simply not appear."
http://www.microsoft.com/office/com...fe7315-a15c-4219-ba7f-ec04a816b607&sloc=en-us

I'm sure it is because of my ignorance, but I'm confused. Is it that you can
publish the plan of alternative versions, but not the assignments? Any
clarification would be appreciated.

--Marcus

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Marcus --

Allow me to post another helpful response!

Remember that there are two types of republishing: (1) publishing the
project and (2) publishing the assignments. When you publish assignments
via Collaborate - Publish - New and Changed Assignments, the assignments
become visible on each resources's PWA timesheet and in the View Resource
Assignments page in PWA. Project Server only allows you to publish
assignments in the Published version of the project. That is what I meant
in the first response you reference.

When you publish the project via Collaborate - Publish - Project Plan, this
makes the project visible in the Project Center and detailed Project views
in PWA. If you want to see an alternate Version of a project in those two
locations, you must publish the alternate Version of the project plan using
Collaborate - Publish - Project Plan. That is what I meant in the second
post your reference.

Does this help? Let us know.

 

[Marcus Pierce]

Yes, that helps very much. Basically, for versions other than the current
published plan, you can publish the project plan but not the assigments.

Thank you!