Posts from:Enterprise Project Management, Microsoft Project, Portfolio Server
Microsoft Project Custom Field Limiter (Not Limit)
BY: Collin Quiring Custom fields in Microsoft Project (Online, Server, Professional or Standard) have a limit of 255 characters. However, I recently had a request from a client that went the other way – they wanted to put their own limit on a... (more...)
Dashboard in a Day – DIAD with Power BI
EPM Strategy and Microsoft are working together to provide Dashboard in a Day for you or your organization. We are doing this March 5 and again march 19 in St Louis. The links are here: 3/5 – http://dld.bz/gAxhd 3/19 – http://dld.bz/gAxjd Dashboard... (more...)
Project Update Bug – Actual Finish for Resource but not in the schedule
BY: Collin Quiring In Project Online / Project Server the task update process is fairly straightforward (in normal situations): The Project (or Resource) Manager assigns the Resource The Resource goes to PWA (Project Web App) The Resource goes to their... (more...)
Power BI Content Pack for Project Online
In case you missed the announcement – there is a new Project Online Content Pack for Power BI. It was released October 26 and can be downloaded here: https://app.powerbi.com/groups/me/getdata/services/project-online The reports are (as excerpted... (more...)
Power BI and SharePoint List
BY: Collin Quiring Here is an interesting one if you are using Power BI to access data from a SharePoint List. In this case the type of SharePoint is literally “List” and so this probably works differently than using a Document Library or other... (more...)
Power BI Refresh Error
By Collin Quiring EPM Strategy works extensively with Power BI for internal and customer needs. We also work with Microsoft Project Server/Project Online for clients quite a bit. This article is about a melding of the two products where what was happening... (more...)
Baseline, No Baseline
BY: Collin Quiring We recently ran across an interesting situation where a schedule has a baseline, but, in the Set Baseline pop up box, there is no indication of a baseline ever being saved. Is this a bug? I don’t think it is a bug as much as it... (more...)
Project External Linking – Another Method
BY: Collin Quiring Just a quick note on another way to link tasks from different schedules. We have talked about this a few times with a few different twists, here, here and here. As with many things Microsoft, there are multiple ways to do something... (more...)
Hide Unused Language Folders
BY: Collin Quiring A few years ago, we wrote this blog but the SharePoint interface has changed quite a bit since then and we thought we should update this post. The old post is located here: https://epmstrategy.com/hiding-unused-language-folders-for-reports/ Technically... (more...)
Microsoft Project – Open Recent File Pop Up that is NOT an error
BY: Collin Quiring I was told once that I should read the ENTIRE error message when one appears on my screen and not assume that I just know what is happening. Of course, some error messages that are provided to the user are way too simple and very un-helpful... (more...)