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)

A quick post to support a very simple script to change the Owner display label on a Project Detail Page page. Quite often clients request to change the Owner to something else such as Project Manager. The script can be downloaded from the script gallery below:

http://bit.ly/1FOXor1

This code will replace “Owner” with “Project Manager” but can easily be updated.

To get the script to work you will need to download the following jQuery library: jquery-2.1.1.min.js – jQuery download Another version of this library may work but this was the one I used / tested with. Upload this library to your PWA site collection then update the script file with the correct location. I uploaded this file to the style library as you can see in the code below:

Alternatively you can reference a CDN if preferred.

Once the script is downloaded, upload this to the PWA site collection, in this example it was uploaded to the shared documents library. Select the PDP that has the Owner field displayed, then reference the uploaded script using the content editor web part:

In this example it is the Project Information PDP.

Once loaded, Owner will display as Project Manager:

One thing this script doesn’t handle is if you have another custom field on the page that contains “Owner” in the string, that will also get replaced 🙂

This is a very simple script but do test this before rolling out to production etc.

The script is provided “As is” with no warranties etc.

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)

The Office 2013 June 2015 Cumulative Updates are now available, please see the links below:

http://bit.ly/1Qmg8sq

Project Server 2013 June 2015 Server Roll up package:
http://bit.ly/1cJMhaJ

Project Server 2013 June 2015 CU:
http://bit.ly/1Qmgbo5

Project 2013 June 2015 CU:
http://bit.ly/1cJMk6m

Also worth noting, if you haven’t done so already, install Service Pack 1 http://bit.ly/1uorn2C first if installing the June 2015 CU.

The Office 2010 June 2015 Cumulative Updates are now available, please see the links below:

http://bit.ly/1Qmg8sq

Project Server 2010 June 2015 Server Roll up package:
http://bit.ly/1cJMk6q

Project Server 2010 June 2015 CU:
http://bit.ly/1Qmg8IG

Project 2010 June 2015 CU:
http://bit.ly/1cJMk6s

SP2 is a pre-requisite for the Office 2010 June 2015 CUs.

As always, fully test these updates on a replica test environment before deploying to production.

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)

Announced today is the “Project Virtual Conference”, which is a free online conference on 22nd October 2015 that will run for 24 hours – get the date in your calendars 🙂

The conference is focused on Microsoft Project, Project Online and Project Server and is being organised by a volunteers with a lot of support from a few Project MVPs.

To stay updated follow the Project Virtual Conference site here: http://bit.ly/1JyMYCg 

Follow the Twitter @ProjectVConf handle and use the #ProjectVconf hashtag for all Twitter activity.

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)

I am pleased to announce that CPS’ PS+ solution was an Award Finalist in the recent Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards 2015 in the Project and Portfolio Management Competency. This is the second year running that the PS+ solution has been an award finalist.

For a full list of winners and finalists see:

http://bit.ly/1RTwDcO

http://bit.ly/1AVaDK3

Great work to all the partners that received awards.

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)

The Office 2013 May 2015 Cumulative Updates are now available, please see the links below:

http://bit.ly/1A1UeDm

Project Server 2013 May 2015 Server Roll up package:
http://bit.ly/1QLs5oe

Project Server 2013 May 2015 CU:
http://bit.ly/1A1UeDn

Project 2013 May 2015 CU:
http://bit.ly/1QLs4As

Worth noting is that the SharePoint 2013 and Project Server 2013 updates are in Windows Updates: http://bit.ly/1A1UeDr

Also worth noting, if you haven’t done so already, install Service Pack 1 http://bit.ly/1uorn2C first if installing the May 2015 CU.

The Office 2010 May 2015 Cumulative Updates are now available, please see the links below:

http://bit.ly/1A1UeDm

Project Server 2010 May 2015 Server Roll up package:
http://bit.ly/1A1UeDs

Project Server 2010 May 2015 CU:
http://bit.ly/1QLs5oh

Project 2010 May 2015 CU:
http://bit.ly/1A1Ucvi

SP2 is a pre-requisite for the Office 2010 May 2015 CUs.

For more details on these patches see: http://bit.ly/1QLs4Ay

As always, fully test these updates on a replica test environment before deploying to production.

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)

A common requirement is to see and access the Issues and Risks lists on the Project Detail Pages in the PWA site for the associated project. Previously I wrote a script that displayed the Issue and Risks data in a table but this was read-only. This can be seen here: http://bit.ly/1ctq4xK 

This new script will display the Issues and Risks (or any other list for that matter – slight code change / update required) on the PDP but will allow you to create / edit the lists items providing you have the permissions of course. Martin did something similar here. The script can be downloaded from the script gallery below:

 http://bit.ly/1ctq68Z

To get the script to work you will need to download the following jQuery library: jquery-2.1.1.min.js – jQuery download Another version of this library may work but this was the one I used / tested with. Upload this library to your PWA site collection then update the script file with the correct location. I uploaded this file to the style library as you can see in the code below:

Alternatively you can reference a CDN if preferred.

Once the script is downloaded, upload this to the PWA site collection, in this example it was uploaded to the shared documents library. Choose what PDP you want the script to be accessed, in this example I created a PDP called SharePoint Data, added a content editor web part on the new page then referenced the uploaded script using the content editor web part:

Once loaded, the page will look like this:

Don’t worry about the message – this is because there is no project UID available here.

Add the new PDP to the require Enterprise Project Types then navigate to the Project Center and access one of those projects from that EPT. Click the new PDP and you should see:

Click one of the buttons and that list should load:

You can also change the behaviour of the list form and use modal pop ups for a better experience:

This currently includes Risks and Issues but can easily be updated to include other SharePoint lists.

The script is provided "As is" with no warranties etc.