PWS with diffrent templates & locations

[Joachim Jauß]

Hi all,

I have two common questions but I don't find any other thread.

1. Question
We work with MOPS 2007 on a MOSS farm. our default location for workspaces
is as subwebs under pwa. Now we want change the locations per customer. Each
customer has her own MOSS-Website where customer - documents are stored. Now
the project workspaces for each customer should be stored as a subweb of the
customer website. Each project has a custom enterprise field the the customer
name (the MOSS URL can be calculated)
What is the best way to implement this behavior and to reduce the users
click's. I don't want to involve the project admin each time a project is
created.

2. Question
This a similar problem. I want to change the project template in dependency
of a custom project enterprise field (custom project type).

For both szenarios I try to implement an serverside eventhandler
(OnWssWorkspaceCreating) and change the properties WssWebAbsoluteUrl and
WebTemplateName. But these props are readonly.

Thx for response

Joachim

 

[Marc Soester [MVP]]

Hi Joachim,

yes, these are common issues, especially when you consider that a SSP should
not contain more than 100 GB due to backup / restore implications.

This is how we have managed this is the past. We actually had to custom
develop the abillity to allow project workspaces to be saved under a
different SSP ( also based on custom fields by the way). I cannot see any
other abillity to do this. Generally it is possible to move the workpsaces to
different SSP's but as mentioned it requires some cusom development.

To your second questions. This does not come nativally out of the box ( in
will in 2010). we have developed an of the shelf add on to Project Server
which will allow you to have a different project workspace based on a Project
Custom field. We call it the Multiple Project Workpsace template tool I
know very inventive
This formun is not anticipated for advertising, so If you are interested you
can contact me directly under (e-mail address removed) and we can further
chat there. By the way this is not an expensive tool, we have developed this
because our customers request this functionality all the time.

Anyway, I hope I was able to point you into the right direction
Best Regards

 

[Andrew Lavinsky]

There's also a solution on Codeplex, but you may have found it already.
I couldn't say how it stacks up to third party tools.

Easiest non-code method is to have the admin manually create the workspaces
in the right place. Note if you do that, that the PWA Webparts will have
to be deployed into a non-PWA workspaces. That's easy enough to do, and
documented on Christophe Fiessinger's blog.


- Andrew Lavinsky
Blog: http://blogs.catapultsystems.com/epm

 

[Joachim Jauß]

Hi ANdrew

thanks for your response.
I also searched on codeplex, but I don't find anything like that...

 

[Andrew Lavinsky]

Try this:

http://blogs.msdn.com/brismith/arch...roject-specific-workspaces-automatically.aspx

- Andrew Lavinsky
Blog: http://blogs.catapultsystems.com/epm