Save offline featire in MPP disabled

[Sameer]

Dear All

Once i open a project plan from the EPM server onto my MPP, The save offline
feature is disabled.

Can anyone tell me y this is happening?
Thnx in advance

 

[Manmeet Chaudhari]

Sameer,
Kindly follow these steps:
1. In Project Professional, on the Tools menu, point to Enterprise Options
and select Microsoft Office Project Server Accounts to open the Project
Server Accounts dialog box.
2. Under When starting, select Manually control connection state, and then
click OK.
3. In the Project Server Accounts dialog box, the next time you open Project
Professional and connect to Project Server 2003, click Work Offline.
The cached Enterprise Global Template is stored in the file system on the
local computer in the Application Data folder as
account_name{+}[globally_unique_identifier].mpt.
Any projects saved offline are saved to this folder. The globally unique
identifier (GUID) ensures that Project Professional uses the correct cached
Enterprise Global Template for the account while working with projects that
are checked out from the Project Server database and taken offline.

Let me know if this works

Regards,
Manmeet Chaudhari
EPM Consultant
Maestros Mediline Systems Ltd
Mumbai

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Sameer --

If you open the project from the Project Center in PWA by selecting the
project and clicking the Open button, the project opens in Microsoft Project
Professional, but does not allow you to save the project in Offline mode.
This is an issue in both Project Server 2002 and 2003. If you launch
Microsoft Project Professional and then open the project using File - Open,
then you can use the Work Offline feature. Does that describe your
situation? Let us know.