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Latest Project Server 2007 SDK Update Now Available! Updated posting for December 07 Release
The December 2007 update to the SDK is now available Project Developer Portal: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/office/aa905469.aspx SDK Online : Project 2007 SDK in MSDN online library: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms512767.aspx SDK Download Read More...
PSI: Filter constraints and escaping the recursive event handler
A couple of topics that have come up through support incidents and comments posted here. The first on the use of the filter or xmlFilter parameters available in a few of the web services, and the second talking about event handlers and what happens if Read More...
When are server-side events supposed to fire?
We have had a few questions on events, and the fact that sometimes, or more correctly, in some circumstances, they don't fire. So if you are using the PSI to make things happen then all should work and usually the description gives you a good idea when Read More...
Creating Issues and Linking to Tasks. Better than task notes?
There are some limitations with the task notes field and the PSI which are discussed elsewhere on the blogs with a potential workaround of using VBA to access the RTF information. Another workaround you might consider is to use SharePoint and the Project Read More...
You can't change the task work breakdown structure (WBS) value from the PSI
In the dataset for the Project you have read/write access to Task_WBS. Unfortunately this should be read-only and the documentation is being corrected. (See community comment already posted at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/websvcproject.projectdataset.taskrow.task_wbs.aspx#CommunityContent Read More...
One event handler and multiple PWA sites - Where did that event come from?
An interesting support case came in through our EMEA team (thanks Valdemar) where a customer had a single event handler that was registered in different sites - but when the event was raised they needed to know which site fired it - so they could make Read More...
Adding Timephased Actual Work through the PSI
There is some great content in the SDK on statusing (search for SubmitStatus and UpdateStatus) and even more coming soon. One of the missing pieces just at the moment is around adding timephased data. So here is a very brief example. See the SDK for better Read More...
Working with Project Server datasets and the web services - don't AcceptChanges!
I thought this was one worth mentioning to a wider audience in case it catches others out. One of our customer had written some code to update data in the timesheet using the PSI. All seemed to be working OK, but no numbers changed. You could even debug Read More...
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