Show Project Manager In Column

[John Cello]

I'm trying to add a column to the Gantt view of a master project that shows
the name of the project manager for each embedded sub-project. And, obviously
since I'm here, I'm not having any success.

Is this possible without touching each and every project? I was hoping that
when I made a (frequent) project manager change in PWA that the column could
draw from this field.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

John --

Sorry, there is no way to do what you wish in Microsoft Project. On the
other hand, you could create a custom Project Center view containing the
Author field. You will need to make sure that your PM's click File -
Properties and fill in the Author field with their name whenever they create
a new project.

An alternative would be to create a custom enterprise Project field with a
value list or outline code that would contain the names of all project
managers. You could make this a Required field so that each PM must select
a value before he/she can save the project. You could include this field in
the Project Center view instead of the Author field. A couple ideas. Hope
they help.

 

[John Cello]

Thanks Dale. That's what I was afraid of. They can see this in the Project
Ownership view in PWA, but the client wanted to see this information in the
Gantt chart in Project.

Just a little more effort on my part. Fortunately I'm billing by the hour
instead of the project on this one. ;-)
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John Cello
John Cello Consulting
Communications For Business
www.johncelloconsulting.com