Excel Report out of Project Server 2010

I am using the Business Intelligence Report to create a Pivot table report for timesheets. Although the resources have reported time and the timesheets have been approved. When I try and create the period report it stops pulling data after May 2014, although
timesheets for the same project with approved time have been submitted well past the month of May. Where is the disconnect? The timesheet has been approved for this project but the data seems to be unavailable past May when I try and create an Excel report.

Hi,
Is the Excel report based on the OLAP cubes or Reporting DB?
Have you checked that no filters are activated in your pivottable?
Can you confirm that you are reporting against timesheets and not against actual work?
Can you check if the timesheets have been approved with no error?
Note that actual work requires the PM to publish the project after he approves the update. Not doing this will prevent actuals being pushed into the reporting DB.
Hope this helps,
Guillaume Rouyre, MBA, MCP, MCTS |

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Reports permission in Project server 2010

Hi,
I have reports created in SSRS, i need to bring those reports to Project Server PWA. How to do that? i need the steps.
Reports like Number of active resources working in Project, Number of projects in that PWA instance.
My requirement is, i have a structure like Executives - Program Managers1- 1.Project Manager 2. Project Manager.
Program Manager2 - 1. Project Manager 2. Project Manager.
Each program manger has to see only their projects(the project which comes under him) in PWA not the other Program Manager's project and Project Manager has to see only his project not the other project manager's project in the same program.
I have Executive who should see all the projects in the organization.
Can someone assist me how to execute in Project Server 2010 PWA?
K.Gokulraj

Hello,
Sounds like you might need to use the project server security to filter the data in the reports, take a look at this example:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ee862408(v=office.12).aspx
To get the reports in side PWA there are several options. As you are querying this I guess SSRS in not SharePoint Integrated mode? If in SSRS Native mode you can just add page viewer web parts on the pages in the PWA site then reference the report server
report URL.
Paul
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Setting Up Earned Value Reporting in Project Server 2010, Using Hours Not Dollars

Hello All,
Are there instructions for setting up Project Server 2010 for Earned Value data capture and reporting? I'm not certain that we are capturing the correct data to report EVM (i.e., Physical % Complete), and I was unable to find any videos on YouTube.
Also, I noticed that Project Server 2010 defaults to reporting EV in Dollars. Can we set it up to report in Hours instead?
Julie

Hi Julie,
If you allow to jump in to complement Dale's excellent reply and comment some of your concern...
5. The status date is a fundamental parameter while talking about the EVM (it is ANYWAY a key setting for tracking projects with MS Project). The EV field will take into account actuals up to this date. Meaning that if your project plans have been updated
by the PM on tuesday and you are running the analysis on friday, you set the status date to tuesday and the uncomplete work between tuesday and friday will not be considered as late work since you are running the analysis as of tuesday. The status date can
be set from the "project" tab either in the project information dialog box or directly in the project tab, status group.
6. MS Project proposes 3 EVM tables by default. A table is a predefined set of column which composes a view, together with a Gantt chart or a timephased grid. If you go to the view tab, click on "tables" then "more tables",
you will find EV, EV cost indicators and EV Schedule indicators tables which will display the out of the box EVM fields calculated by MS Project based on the costs, actuals, Baseline, status date.
Then about the cumulative data, you might be refering to S-curves which are a representation allowing you showing the cumulative values of the EV. To do that, you'll have severals ways:
Use the cumulative calculated field in the visuals reports
Create
Dashboards from the report tab using the cumulative data (actual, Baseline, cost)
Create
MDX mesures in the OLAP cubes for cumulative data and create excel reports
Develop custom SSRS reports
Buy a 3rd-party addon
Finally please let me give you an excellent reference for the EVM in MS Project with EPM Central blog articles:
http://www.epmcentral.com/msproject/evintro.php
http://www.epmcentral.com/msproject/evprereq.php
http://www.epmcentral.com/msproject/evterms.php
http://www.epmcentral.com/msproject/evexplain.php
Hope this helps,
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How To Control the Langauge of BI Reports (Using Excel 2013, oData, and Project Server Online 2013)

Although I buried and posted the following question indirectly in a recent post, I would like to do so here to try and elevate it in the hope that I can get an answer.
It is in regards to creating reports using Excel 2103 to querry Project Server 2013 Online using oData. I would like to be able to control the langauge of my reports that I create for others to view.
Just creating and then saving the Report and Data Connections in a language directory does not seem to drive or determine the language of the report. A colleague of mine over here is using the same directories as I am, and his turn
out to be French like his environment. Mine, even though I save the files in same the French directories, display in English.
Any ideas on how I can create reports so that they display in another language, eg., French when using Excel to create reports? I know that we can set the language in an internet browser to control the language that the result is returned, for instance,
when querying https://.../pwa/_api/ProjectData/$metadata
\Spiro Theopoulos PMP, MCITP. Montreal, QC (Canada)

Correction! Thanks to Doug Welsby of Microsoft and some our other MS friends who worked behind the scenes to correct/ assist me on this, I got the right answer after all... the difference between, example a French oData command/ statement,
and an English one is the inclusion of the square brackets with the language abbreviation/ code e.g., "[Fr..]" in the oData connection string/ statement. For further reference, see the connection files provided by Microsoft in the Reports and
compare the syntax for the same report/ different language. There is where you will see what and how Excel is able to differentiate/ control what language that the report result will return.
\Spiro Theopoulos PMP, MCITP. Montreal, QC (Canada)

Project Server 2010 export to Excel 2007 fails

I keep getting the following error when I try to export Resource Availability to Excel. I am using Project Server 2010, Excel 2007, IE8, Windows 7. I have PS set as a intranet site with low security set. Coworkers with the same setup are
not having this issue. I have tried exporting to Excel with Excel open, Excel closed, on a hardwire network connection, on wireless network connection, on my corporate VPN and not on my corporate VPN.
Microsoft Office Excel cannot access the file "URL here" for the possible reasons:
-The file name or path does not exist.
-The file is being used by another program
-The workbook you are trying to save has the same name as a currently open worklbook.
Please provide suggestions on what to try differently to make the export work. I have tried downloaded other version of IE and have the same issue.

Hi Julia,
since nobody jumped in, I'll give a try!
Have you tried to reinstall Excel or at least repair it?
Hope this helps,
Guillaume Rouyre, MBA, MCP, MCTS |

How to get the usage of SSRS reports in project server 2010

Hi
Can any body tell me how to get the usage of the SSRS reports in Project Server 2010.
Thanks
Geeth If you feel that the answer which i gave you is Helpful please select it as Answer/helpful.

Hello,
See the links below on how to get the usage for SSRS reports:
http://sqlbadboy.wordpress.com/2013/09/12/reporting-services-reports-whos-using-them/
http://www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip/1908/analyze-report-execution-and-usage-statistics-in-sql-server-reporting-services/
http://www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip/1306/how-to-know-what-reporting-services-reports-are-being-used/
Paul
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Project Server 2013 reporting database change in Schema from Project Server 2010

I have a current Project Server 2010 implementation, I am planning to migrate to Project Online.
We have Customized Reports that consume from the PS 2010 Reporting DB.
Are there differences in the Reporting DB schema between PS 2010 and Project Online?
My Question is: if we migrated to Project Online, will the reports crash?
Another question is that, is PS 2013 Reporting DB schema the same as Project Online?

Hi Atia,
IN project server 2013 we have only one database instead of 4, it means draft, archive, published and reporting with in one database.Project Server 2013 reporting database schema tool that can be downloaded.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/project_programmability/archive/2013/01/28/project-server-2013-reporting-database-rdb-schema-reference.aspx
There are differences in reporting of on-premises vs. Project Online
The Project Server 2013 reporting schema includes three new tables, 27 new views, and a total of 33 tables and views that include new fields.
Answer-1 : Yes there are some differences between PS 2010 and project Online.
Answer-2 : Reports will crash as In Project Online you have to use ODATA to create report. You can not query project online data for reporting directly you have to have use ODATA.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj163015.aspx
Answer-3 : NO, PS 2013 Schema and Project online Schema is different.
kirtesh

Line Classification Reporting in Project Server 2010

I’m trying to understand the Line Classification (LC) functionality and reporting in Project Server 2010 having not used this before.
I have added a new LC titled ‘Billable’ to the system and then added a task to my timesheet with the new Billable LC and then logged time to both the Standard and Billable LCs of the same task (not sure why MS have decided to call this Billing Category
– rather confusing). I was expecting that when the timesheet was approved the hours in both the Standard and Billable LCs would be combined and the total show-up on the task in the MS Project Professional plan but this appears not to be
the case, only the hours logged to the Standard LC show in the project plan.
Is this correct or am I missing a step to get the new LC hours into reporting?
Thank you.

Hi Jane,
I'll try to be more explicit. Hours logged against other LC than standard will NOT be lost, they will simply not be pushed to the project plan. Only those against standard LC will be pushed as actual work after PM approval.
That being said, ALL actuals regardless of the LC will be in the Reporting DB and OLAP cubes for example. Meaning that using for example one of the 3 timehseet OLAP cubes, you'll be able to report actual hours against LC, periods, projects, resources, managers...
Hope this helps,
Guillaume Rouyre, MBA, MCP, MCTS |

I can't see the workflow diagram in the out-of-the-box proposal workflow in Project Server 2010

Hello,
I created new project based on the template out-of-the-box proposal, but after that i can't see the following diagram ..

Hi,
To achieve this you can use Workflow Visualization webpart from Project Server 2010 Solution Starter Kit from
here.
Thanks !!!
Sachin Vashishth MCTS

Project Server 2010:- How to add Own Workspace filter in workspace web part like project server 2007

Hi All,
I am using project server 2010.
Can some one advise me how can I add Own Workspace filter option in workspace web part like project server 2007 which is showing all projects name page by page. There no filter option available. I am not sure if there is any out of box feature.
Thanks in Advance..

Nitin,
PS2010 shows by default the workspaces you have permissions to. Unfortunately, there is no more filtering options available.
The only solutions are to write a custom webpart, or develop your own SSRS Report, which you can customize the way you want.
Refer to Paul's excellent blog post on this topic here:
http://pwmather.wordpress.com/2011/08/05/custom-projectserver-project-site-workspace-view-in-pwa-ps2010-ps2007-epm-msproject-ssrs/
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Project Server 2010 Business Intelligence performance issue

Hello,
We've setup a Project Server 2010 Business intelligence center and everything seems to be working fine.
The next day when users attempt to open Sample reports an error occurs that when we apply the "refresh all Data connections" a couple of times everything works fine.
How do we ensure that this strange issue of "fake un-related" errors are not occuring for users.
Once the BI is accessed by a few people then the reports seem to work the first time otherwise if you are the first one running them in the morning you have to retry 4 to 5 times for the excel spreadsheet to show up?

Hello Claude
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Project Server 2010 SP2 - Use with IE11, Firefox and Safari

More groups in my company are being onboarded to start reporting time and managing projects out of Project Server /PWA 2010.  We found that one of the groups have MACs and use either Safari or Firefox. There are some members of that
same team who are using an HP machine but are using IE 11.
From what I am reading and what I am seeing it appears that with Firefox and Safari you cannot access Manage Timesheets or Project Center.  Has anyone found a work-around for this?
The work-around we are using for IE11 is to add Project Serrver to the Compatability View.  Does anyone know of a problem with this approach?
Thank you

Look into using the 'IE tab' for Chrome/Firefox as a work-around. I had a similar scenario with Mac users and installed IE tab in their Chrome/Firefox browsers for them and worked pretty good for the most part. Hope this helps.

Project Server 2010 - Change Status Manager

End Goal: We would like to perform this change via SQL statement - which I believe I have I feel like I am missing something and not sure what it is.
Background: We migrated from a different product to Project Server 2010, while our team members were assisting users to move their projects from the old application to Project 2010 they did not realize their names would appear as status
managers.
The quick solution would be to tell the owners of the projects to change the information themselves (republish or go in themselves and change every line); however we feel this can be cumbersome and too much work due to having hundreds of projects and there
are thousands of fields that need to be modified. I can quickly accomplish what I want with an UPDATE command and be done with it (no user involvement).
What I am running into in my test environment is that I can modify the fields (query below) to the appropriate status manager, but I cannot get the changes to appear in Project Professional - it still shows the old value.
I have used the following command to change the Status Manager to the Project Owner (I'm new to SQL, and we no longer have a DBA - so if my code isnt the greatest...I'll fix it)
USE ProjectServer_ReportingUPDATE MSP_EpmTaskSET TaskStatusManagerUID = MSP_EpmProject.ProjectOwnerResourceUIDFROM MSP_EpmProjectWHERE MSP_EpmTask.ProjectUID = MSP_EpmProject.ProjectUID
This modifies all the values correctly - Project Owners become the Status Manager in SQL
Question: Is there something I am missing or can do OR I am not doing to make this new value show up? Is there a better way to do this from an administrative point of view, with no customer/user interaction?
Your help is greatly appreciated
Thank You
kbwrecker

Merely my personal opinion having been a Project Server 2010 admin in a medium-sized corporation:
I think you are going to seriously do some damage if you go about trying to modify SQL tables behind Project Server's back. There are a LOT of operations that go into a simple "publish" and I doubt that the minor changes you want to make will account for
all of them. Are you confident you're adjusting all of the values necessary? You may have a detrimental impact on in-flight approvals, timesheets, projects, tasks, assignments.. There is just far too much IMO.
Believe me, I know it is not an ideal solution to have the business make their own adjustments. However sometimes it is just what has to be done. My vote is to craft brief instructions and send them out to the PMs. It's easy to do, they can change one row
and then drag the field down like in Excel to edit all the rest; it's a 1-minute operation, max.
Due to the nature of the field, (not being something you can edit via PWA, and even in Project Pro it only allows you to change it to yourself or another current Status Mgr) I think you'll have a hard time scripting this one via macro etc.. However if you
do find a way, seriously keep in mind your scope and don't edit them all at once, it will need to kick off publishes and check-ins for all the affected projects.
Good luck!

Project Server 2010 PWA Provisioning Error - System.UnauthorizedAccessException: Access is denied.

Hi,
When migrating from a Prod Environment to a Test Environment using the Project Server 2010 5 Database backup and restore process (actually 6 DB's with the Project Sites DB), upon encountering a failure during provisioning the PWA Instance, we get the errors listed
at the base of this posting in our Event Logs.
To clarify what we have done already, we have:
1. Backed up the 6 databases from the Source Environment.
2. Removed the existing PWA_Content and PWS_Content (Project Sites) databases from the Target Environment Farm.
3. Restored the 6 databases in the Target Environment.
4. Given the SP Farm Service Account 'db_owner' rights to each of the 6 restored databases.
5. Added the PWA_Content and PWS_Content databases (exact same names) to the Target Environment.
6. Locked down (offline/stopped), all of the SharePoint Content databases in the Farm except for the PWA_Content database.
7. Run the PWA Provisioning process from the 'Project Server' SharePoint Service in Central Admin.
It is during the PWA provisioning that we encounter these errors.
As the Target Environment is for Test/Dev purposes, the SP Farm Service Account is setup to support all of the SharePoint Farm Services, is in the Local Admin Group of each of the Servers (App, WFE and DB), and is actually in the sysadmin
role on the DB Server.
Any suggestions on what is causing this denied access situation would be most appreciated.
Cheers,
Wayne
Event Log Entries:
============================================
Log Name:      Application
Source:        Microsoft-SharePoint Products-Project Server
Date:          1/22/2014 2:47:34 PM
Event ID:      6971
Task Category: Provisioning
Level:         Error
Keywords:
User:          ACCOUNTS\svc_psfarm
Computer:      SERVER.accounts.domain.com
Description:
Failed to provision site PWA with error: Microsoft.Office.Project.Server.Administration.ProvisionException: Membership synchronization failed. ---> System.UnauthorizedAccessException: Access is denied. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070005 (E_ACCESSDENIED))
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.Library.SPRequest.AddRoleDef(String bstrUrl, String bstrName, String bstrDescription, Boolean bHidden, Int32 lRoleOrder, UInt64 iPermMask, Byte iType, Int32 lRoleDefID)
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPRoleDefinitionCollection.AddCore(SPRoleDefinition role)
etc....
Failed to create the Report Center web (Exception: PSI Entry Point:
Project User: DOMAIN\svc_psfarm Correlation Id: c0a30b18-46e4-4447-b469-f8fd3bb1490a
PWA Site URL: http://pstest2010/PWA
SSP Name: Project Server
PSError: NoError (0))
Failed to grant 'DOMAIN\svc_psfarm' access to web application 'SPWebApplication Name=Portal'.
Error: System.Security.SecurityException: Access denied. Only machine administrators are allowed to create administration service job definitions of type: Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPUpdateWorkerProcessGroup, Microsoft.SharePoint, Version=14.0.0.0,
Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c.
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPAdministrationServiceJobDefinition..ctor(String name, SPService service, SPServer server, SPJobLockType lockType)
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPUpdateWorkerProcessGroup..ctor(SPTimerService timerService, String[] loginsToAdd, String[] loginsToRemove)
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPWebApplication.GrantAccessToProcessIdentity(String username, SPPolicyRoleType policyRole)
   at Microsoft.Office.Project.Server.Administration.PsiServiceApplication.GrantAccessToWebApp(List`1 webApps, String userName) The Zone of the assembly that failed was: MyComputer

Is the Test and Production in the same domain. If they are not, then the SIDs associated with the SQL accounts may look the same but they are not. At times, I have had to recreated accounts when in different domains.
I would also use PowerShell cmdlets and see if it finds any issues, such as Test-SPContentDatase.. Validate the SharePoint content databases, because if not setup properly the Provisioning will fail.
Also check these properties.
$web=get-spweb http://prodproj01/pwa
$Web.AllProperties[“PWAURL”] ### see what the value is.. you may have to blank it out, specially if it is pointing to a different URL
Here is how to fix.
$Web.AllProperties[“PWAURL”]=””
$web.Update()
Michael Wharton, MVP, MBA, PMP, MCT, MCTS, MCSD, MCSE+I, MCDBA
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Blog http://MyProjectExpert.com contains my field notes and SQL queries

The efficiency value in the dashboard is more than 100% in Project server 2010

The efficiency value in the dashboard is more than 100% in Project server 2010. As I have admin access trying to find out what could be the issue. Please reply if there is any suggestion on this.

Hi Chaishashi,
Efficiency isn't a value that is standard in Project Server 2010, and so it is likely that what you are viewing is a custom report. I suggest you contact the report author to resolve this issue.
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