Organizing Project Plans   

We have implemented project server 2003.  Currently we have 20 Plans.
Out of the 20 plans
a) 10 plans belongs to 4 divisions (Information Technology, Research,
Products, and Field Operations)
b) 10 Plans belongs to different product groups (Project Management,
Program Management, BPR, Outsourcing, Six Sigma,  Analytics, Modeling,
RFID, Mobile, and Internal)

Is there some way we can group these projects into 2 (folders or
Categories or views) so that the project managers will be able to click

on the top level and view the projects for that group.
 in other words, can the project manager view the information in the
following format (tree structure similar to Windows Explorer view)
1) Divisional Plans
   1a) Information Technology
   1b) Research
   1c) Products, and
   1d)Field Operations
2) Major Products Plans
   2a) Project Management
   2b) Program Management
   2c) BPR
   2d) Outsourcing
   2e) Six Sigma
   2f) Analytics
   2g) Modeling
   2h) RFID
   2i) Mobile
   2j)Internal


If there is a better way of displaying the same information, please
suggest me. 


Thank you 


Sunny

date: 7 Jun 2006 15:26:09 -0700   author:   unknown

Re: Organizing Project Plans   

Sunny --

In the future, please post your Project Server questions in the 
microsoft.public.project.server newsgroup, as this newsgroup is closing 
down.  To answer your questions, I would recommend that your Project Server 
administrator create two custom enterprise Project outline codes in the 
Enterprise Global file.  The first outline code might be called Division and 
the second might be called Product Group, and each of these would include 
the outline code values you specify.  After creating these two new custom 
enterprise Project outline codes, each PM would need to open every project 
he/she manages, click Project - Project Information, specify a value for 
each outline code, click OK, and then click Collaborate - Publish - All 
Information.

From this point forward, your PM's could apply grouping on either of these 
fields in the Open from Microsoft Office Project Server dialog (click File - 
Open).  Also, your Project Server administrator could add these two new 
outline codes to each Project Center view in PWA, and then apply Grouping as 
desired in each Project Center view as well.  Hope this helps.

-- 
Dale A. Howard [MVP]
Enterprise Project Trainer/Consultant
http://www.msprojectexperts.com
http://www.projectserverexperts.com
"We wrote the book on Project Server"


 wrote in message 
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> We have implemented project server 2003.  Currently we have 20 Plans.
> Out of the 20 plans
> a) 10 plans belongs to 4 divisions (Information Technology, Research,
> Products, and Field Operations)
> b) 10 Plans belongs to different product groups (Project Management,
> Program Management, BPR, Outsourcing, Six Sigma,  Analytics, Modeling,
> RFID, Mobile, and Internal)
>
> Is there some way we can group these projects into 2 (folders or
> Categories or views) so that the project managers will be able to click
>
> on the top level and view the projects for that group.
> in other words, can the project manager view the information in the
> following format (tree structure similar to Windows Explorer view)
> 1) Divisional Plans
>   1a) Information Technology
>   1b) Research
>   1c) Products, and
>   1d)Field Operations
> 2) Major Products Plans
>   2a) Project Management
>   2b) Program Management
>   2c) BPR
>   2d) Outsourcing
>   2e) Six Sigma
>   2f) Analytics
>   2g) Modeling
>   2h) RFID
>   2i) Mobile
>   2j)Internal
>
>
> If there is a better way of displaying the same information, please
> suggest me.
>
>
> Thank you
>
>
> Sunny
>

date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 17:23:33 -0600   author:   Dale Howard [MVP] dale(dot)howard(at)msprojectexperts(dot)com