SharePoint (and Project Server) Shenanigans

I am a Project Server and SharePoint consultant but my main focus currently is around Project Server. I have been working with Project Server for nearly five years since 2007 for a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner in the UK, I have also been awared with the Microsoft Community Contributor Award 2011. I am also a certified Prince2 Practitioner. This article has been cross posted from pwmather.wordpress.com (original article)

Another example use case for adaptive cards in Microsoft Teams to add additional Office 365 Project Online integration. In this example this solution will post a card in Teams for users who have timesheets in progress that are overdue. My previous example posted to Project Owners: https://pwmather.wordpress.com/2019/08/24/projectonline-and-adaptive-cards-in-microsoftteams-using-microsoftflow-for-project-owner-actions-ppm-projectmanagement-msproject-office365-powerplatform/

This example posts to the timesheet owners who have timesheets overdue. To avoid posting to all users in Project Online, this example filters the users based on an enterprise resource custom flag field called “Timesheet Required”. The resources that need to submit timesheets have this new field set to “Yes”.

Like previous posts, I used https://adaptivecards.io/designer/ to design the card.

The Microsoft Flow can be seen below:

The Flow is triggered on a schedule then uses the Current time action to get the current time. Then a SharePoint HTTP action is used to query the ProjectData API to get a list of resources in Project Online who are required to complete timesheets:

Next an Apply to each action is used as the previous action could return more than one resource, the output from the previous action is used for the input. Inside the Apply to each action, a SharePoint HTTP action is used to query the ProjectData API for each resource from the GetUsersForTimesheets action. In the Uri query, two variables are passed in, the resource name items(‘Apply_to_each’)[‘ResourceName’] and the current time:

Then a condition check is used to check if there is at least one timesheet for that resource using the expression length(body(‘GetAllUsersInProgressOverdueTimesheets’)[‘value’]) :

If there is at least one timesheet for that resource the Flow then posts a card to that resource in Microsoft Teams. This is posted to the timesheet owner using the expression items(‘Apply_to_each’)[‘ResourceEmailAddress’]. There are some dynamic values passed into the JSON too for the ResourceName items(‘Apply_to_each’)[‘ResourceName’] and count of timesheets length(body(‘GetAllUsersInProgressOverdueTimesheets’)[‘value’]):

The card is posted to the users Flow chat as seen below:

The user will then be able to click the button to access the timesheet summary page in Project Online and update the timesheets as needed.

Another simple low / no code option for integrating Office 365 Project Online and Microsoft Teams using Microsoft Flow.