Getting Familiar with the Project Web Access Administration Interface


You control global Project Server application options through the Project Web Access interface, although creating custom fields and building a resource pool is handled through the Project 2002 Professional client. You configure application options in Project Web Access through the Admin menu and interface.

The organizational structure of the Admin menu is confusing. You must cull specific functionality from a hodgepodge of menu selections. The nine selections in the left navigation pane in Figure 8-5 are repeated in the page body (some of these are cut off in the figure) with descriptions. Table 8-1 contains the nine high-level menu choices and the submenu selections that they contain in the Admin interface. Note that the Implement Microsoft Project in the Enterprise selection covered in Chapter 2 isn’t counted in this list.

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Figure 8-5. All Project Web Access Admin menu selections are represented in the left pane.

Table 8-1: Project Server Admin Menu Organizational Structure

ADMIN MENU SELECTION

SUBSELECTIONS

Manage users and groups

Users

Groups

Manage security

Categories

Security templates

User authentication

Manage views

Views

DSNs for views

Manage organization

Features

Menus

Manage SharePoint Team Services

Connect to servers

Subweb provisioning settings

Manage subwebs

Synchronize administrator accounts

Manage enterprise features

Features

Update resource tables and OLAP cube

Check in enterprise projects

Check in enterprise resources

Versions

Customize Microsoft Project Web Access

Tracking settings

Gantt Chart formats

Grouping formats

Nonproject time categories

Home page format

Notifications and reminders

Manage licenses

N/A

Clean up Microsoft Project Server database

N/A

The Project Web Access Admin menu organizational structure doesn’t group functionality in the way you’re likely to use it. You need to consider multiple menu selections when attempting to set system options and the same is true for maintenance routines. I’ve taken a functional approach to organizing selections into four categories:

  • Manage application options: This category includes selections that manipulate features and feature options that address global selections and system behaviors and don’t require frequent manipulation.

  • Application maintenance: Day-to-day and occasional maintenance routines, including the management of user accounts, are included in this category.

  • Manage security: This category includes all functionality to manage the security functions and templates that underlie data and user security.

  • Manage collaboration services: This category includes managing services provided by STS and SMTP connections.

If this helps you to make sense of the selections available to you, use Table 8-2 as a roadmap to locate the functionality you’re looking for.

Table 8-2: Categorizing Menu Selections by Working Category

WORKING CATEGORY

MENU LOCATION

Manage application options

Manage organization Features

Manage organization Menus

Manage enterprise features Features

Manage enterprise features Versions

Manage enterprise features Update resource tables and OLAP cube

Manage views Views

Manage views DSNs for views

Customize Microsoft Project Web Access Tracking settings

Customize Microsoft Project Web Access Gantt Chart formats

Customize Microsoft Project Web Access Grouping formats

Customize Microsoft Project Web Access Nonproject time categories

Customize Microsoft Project Web Access Home page format

Application maintenance

Manage users and groups Users

Manage enterprise features Check in enterprise projects

Manage enterprise features Check in enterprise resources

Manage licenses

Clean up Microsoft Project Server database

Manage security

Manage users and groups Groups

Manage security Categories

Manage security Security templates

Manage security User authentication

Manage collaboration services

Manage SharePoint Team Services Connect to servers

Manage SharePoint Team Services Subweb provisioning settings

Manage SharePoint Team Services Manage subwebs

Manage SharePoint Team Services Synchronize administrator accounts

Customize Microsoft Project Web Access Notifications and reminders

The point to the reorganized view is that you must bounce around the menu to perform tasks in any of these working categories. When you’re configuring Project Server, for instance, you must consider selections under four top-level selections. I describe the uses for each of these selections in depth when I cover the relevant related topics in this book. For the purposes of beginning a discussion on configuration, a high-level understanding of the Admin interface is all you need. To that end, I offer you one last table on the topic. Table 8-3 contains brief description of each selection in the Admin interface in its natural order.

Table 8-3: Admin Interface Selections

MENU/SELECTION

DESCRIPTION

Manage users and groups Users

Add, modify, and deactivate users. Set user password, global permissions, and categories. Merge accounts applies to nonenterprise resources only.

Manage users and groups Groups

Add, modify, and delete groups. Set global permissions and categories, and users for a group.

Manage security Categories

Add, modify, and delete categories. Select users, projects, resources, and views that belong to the category. Set global permissions and security relationships for category.

Manage security Security templates

Add, modify, and delete security templates that can be used to set global permissions for roles defined as groups. Manage security

User authentication

Set authentication standard for system, minimum password length, and an authentication option applicable to some workgroup installations to allow Project 2000. Manage views

Views

Add, modify, or delete views displayed in Project Web Access. Manage views

DSNs for views

Applies to workgroup installations only.

Manage organization Features

Turn system features on or off globally. Set base intranet and extranet addresses to be used in constructing URLs expressed by Project Server.

Manage organization Menus

Add, change, delete, or reorder menu selections within Project Web Access.

Manage SharePoint Team Services Connect to servers

Add, modify, or remove an STS server connection.

Manage SharePoint Team Services Subweb provisioning settings

Manipulate automation settings for STS subweb creation when projects are published to Project Server.

Manage SharePoint Team Services Manage subwebs

Create, edit, or delete subwebs and their data records.

Manage SharePoint Team Services Synchronize administrator accounts

Publish Project Server administrator accounts to STS server.

Manage enterprise features Features

Enable or disable certain enterprise features in Project Server.

Manage enterprise features Update resource tables and OLAP cube

Set parameters for automated OLAP cube generation and publication of resource availability data to the system.

Manage enterprise features Check in enterprise projects

Feature to unlock a project record inadvertently left in a checked-out state.

Manage enterprise features Check in enterprise resources

Feature to unlock a resource record inadvertently left in a checked-out state.

Manage enterprise features Versions

Add, modify, or delete project save versions allowed on the server.

Customize Microsoft Project Web Access Tracking settings

Specify default and/or locked-down reporting methods for the system. Select timesheet settings.

Customize Microsoft Project Web Access Gantt Chart formats

Set formats for Gantt charts that can be associated with Project Web Access views.

Customize Microsoft Project Web Access Grouping formats

Set grouping styles that can be applied to Project Web Access views.

Customize Microsoft Project Web Access Nonproject time categories

Set up the nonproject collection buckets that appear on the timesheet.

Customize Microsoft Project Web Access Home page format

Allow the user to add simple links and content to the Project Web Access home page.

Customize Microsoft Project Web Access Notifications and reminders

Set up a connection to a mail server and determine base message, and set time for daily notifications to run.




Implementing Enterprise Portfolio Management with Microsoft Project Server 2002
Implementing Enterprise Portfolio Management with Microsoft Project Server 2002
ISBN: 1590591186
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2005
Pages: 185

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