Workspace URL in Custom field

[Vaso Vukovic]

Hi I want to display project workspace URL in a enterprise custom field, then
push it to be displayed in a project center view. Checked the formulas picker
functions and operators and don't seem to be able to find the way to do this.
Any ideas?

 

[Vaso Vukovic]

Anyone ???

 

[Andrew Lavinsky]

why can't you just enter it manually in a project level custom field?

 

[Vaso Vukovic]

whilst it is possible and quite acceptable for some, that is too manual for
me.. Also if my workspace provisioning settings change (e.g. site collection
change) then I have to go back to hundreds of projects to update that
particular field. Basically, the Project Server developers expose the field
already anyway as a link on home site (project workspaces section), so I am
hopeful that there is an easy trick to pull that in to the custom field.

 

[Andrew Lavinsky]

Then why don't you just train the users to use the Project Center "Go To"
functionality which will take them to the workspace?

-A

 

[Vaso Vukovic]

many projects dont have the site and its not obvious from the projetc center
views if it has or hasn't. People get annoyed with the message/error pop-up
saying that site is not available or that the automatic provisioning is still
creating the site.Then they call me to ask how long is it going to take to
complete the provisioning etc. . you can't sort or filter in a view by
workspace URL value as it is not a field. You can't create a view that
displays only projects that have workspaces..

 

[Vaso Vukovic]

Hey Andrew,

thanks for your help btw.. I have spent some time reading forums and it is
apparent that PWA can not have dynamic variable defintions used iun the view
(e.g. create custom variable to be used in the resource center view which
would be listing users security groups or workspace url discussed here). Its
a shame as that then forces me great expense just so I can get a SQL
Reporting Services report which can access these fields..

 

[John Thoni]

You could write a Server Side Event Handler that response to the
WssWorkspaceAddressUpdated event, and update a custom field accordingly.
That way you could surface it anywhere you want, and it should always stay in
sync with any changes to the url.