Help need for writing PDS Extender

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    - multiple resources columns Is it possible have three resource columns all resources residing in the same resource sheet/pool in the same table/Gantt view that display different resource names? Creating the columns is not difficult however as you select a resource it immediately changes in all three columns to the same name. Task Contractor Supervisor Carpenter Garage Building Bill Fred Jim What I think I need is Resource1 Resource2 Resource3 much like Text1 Text2 Text3 etc. Thoughts on a workaround of some type or a better conceptual way of addressing this problem would be appreciated Tag: Help need for writing PDS Extender Tag: 76185
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    - Protecting Certain Tasks Hi All, Is there a method of protecting entire rows in the Gantt entry view? I wary that certain users of the plan may accidentally change something and I'd like to lock down the tasks. I cannot find a method of doing this and would appreciate any guidance the group can offer. TIA - Hardip Tag: Help need for writing PDS Extender Tag: 76174
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    - Date Format web access does not follow Regional Settings The date format in Regional Settings on my computer has been changed to 07-Jan-05 so my European colleagues can view the date in a format they understand when I present training. But when dates in my project are displayed thru Project Web Access (using Project Server 2003 with SP1) they see 07-01-05 which can be confusing. The date could be interpreted as July first or January seventh. Is there any way to cause Project Server web access to adhere to the Regional Settings? If not, is there any way to ask Microsoft to fix this bug in a future version? Tag: Help need for writing PDS Extender Tag: 76173
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    - PWA - How to Collapse all tasks... ? Hi, I'm recently using PWA and can't figure out a way to collapse all tasks I have assigned. In the standard version of MS Project I can use the "Collapse All" funcion. Is there a similar functionality for PWA ? Thanks, Pablo Tag: Help need for writing PDS Extender Tag: 76167
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    - Duration Some of my resources are measured by duration, but less then a day. Is there a way to measure it by hour? Tag: Help need for writing PDS Extender Tag: 76166
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    - Resource column Hi! I tried to create several resource columns, since I have several different resources. But all the columns showed the same resource, no matter the changes I did in each one. How can I create this resource columns, so they can show different information? Tag: Help need for writing PDS Extender Tag: 76165
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    - Calendar Shift problem Hi, I have several resources who work in a shift systeem. This means that they work week 1 : early shift (for example 06:00-14:00) week 2: day shift week 3: night shift and so on. I can create 3 base calendars with the appropriate times. When I assign one of those calendars to that resource, it changes all the weeks to that calendar. What I want to do, is to to assign that calendar only for a certain week. Do I have to give the times on a day per day basis for that resource (which means a lot of work) or is there a possibility to assign that resource to a base calendar for only a limited time period. Thanks Tag: Help need for writing PDS Extender Tag: 76161
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    - displaying ressource shortcuts in gantt diagram Hallo, I use MS Project 2002, German Version - that's why I try to guess correct menu names etc. I hope you will understand my question! In the gantt diagram are shown the ressource names and the percentages, if I use one ressource <100% - it's default. But I changed it and want to show the ressource shortcuts [?? right name?? abbrevation?? in German Version: "Ressourcenkuerzel"] instead of full ressource names. I can do this - but now there are no percentages if using one ressource <100% :-( It's possible to do this, and how? Thanks a lot for your answers! Ute (eryakaas) [for German speakers: Ich möchte anstatt des Ressourcennamens das Ressourcenkürzel neben den Balken eintragen. Das funktioniert auch, aber die Prozentangaben beim einsatz <100% werden nicht angezeigt. Kann ich das ändern?] Tag: Help need for writing PDS Extender Tag: 76160
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    - Changing views with custom project guide in MS Project Im having trouble being able to change views in a custom Project Guide I am working on. I want to be able to change views (ex. Gantt Chart, Task Usage etc.) based on specific tasks selected in the Project Guide. Is there a function that will allow you to change views or is it more complicated . Also, is there any way to switch to a particular view when the 'Done' link is clicked after completing a specific task in the Project Guide ? All help is appreciated. thanks Tag: Help need for writing PDS Extender Tag: 76159
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    - How to transfer Project 2003 to a different computer? Hi, I have a licensed and activated copy of Project 2003 on an old notebook computer. I have bought a new notebook and would like to transfer my Project 2003 to the new computer and remove it from the old one. Is there a recommended way to go about doing this? Tag: Help need for writing PDS Extender Tag: 76154
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    - How do I to record Actual Hours How do I to record Actual Hours by day? by month? in order to report variances against the baseline by month? I do not see a way to append thea actual hours currently recorded in MS project. Does this functionality exist? Tag: Help need for writing PDS Extender Tag: 76151
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    - Changing Text styles on all projects I want to change the text style for milestones to be red italics. I can change it in an individual project, but I want this to be my default. I tried copying the Entry Table from the project where I changed the text style to Global.mpt, then copying it from Global.mpt to another project. Didn't work. Does anyone know how to change a text style on all future projects? And how to change a text style on past projects to match one you've already changed, without editing them in each project separately? Thanks in advance! Tag: Help need for writing PDS Extender Tag: 76150
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    - Values not displaying in resource usage view I have work and actual values in the resource usage view. I can see them in the summary values next to the resource names on the left side of the view. When I look at the grid to the right there is nothing there. I can even enter something in the grid, and it immediately disappears, but the summary values to the left are updated. What is happening? Tag: Help need for writing PDS Extender Tag: 76147
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    - Filtering on late milestones I have a master schedule with 5 fairly lengthy inserted schedules that I need to manage from different cross functional groups. Rather than manage each line in each schedule my plan is to manage major milestones (and by manage I mean look for schedule slippages) I would like to set up a Filter on the following: 1) Milestone tasks 2) < 100% complete 3) Due before today Can anybody help me with this? Although I have been using project for years I haven't really made real use of it's features and filters are one area I am new to. Thanks Dave Tag: Help need for writing PDS Extender Tag: 76144
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    - Adding a resource in the middle of the task Hello, I am somewhat new to MS Project. Is it possible to add a resource to a task after the task has already started. I was currently trying to use the personal calendar, but I dont want to turn days to non-working days that are prior to a resources start on a task because I want that resource working on another task. So, is it possible to add a resource and make that resource start doing work on a task in the middle of that task? thanks, Scott Tag: Help need for writing PDS Extender Tag: 76136
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    - Assigning a numeric value to a month I want the first month of a schedule to have a value of "1", the second month a value of "2"....and so on.... I need this to show up in a field in the GANT chart. Tag: Help need for writing PDS Extender Tag: 76134
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    - entering actual duration question I have a Fixed Duration task of 12 hours - a meeting of three four sessions to determine test cases - which has completed. The timeframe for 12 hours to occur could be accomplished in 2 days but because of other things on each person's schedule (i.e vacation, other commitments, etc.) it took 2 weeks to perform the 12 hour task Since all planned attendees attended, I enter 12 hours at the task level and let Microsoft divide up the work hours. I also physically entered both the start date (of our first meeting of 11/8/2004) and the end date (of our last meeting of 11/23/2004). Once I entered the above start and finish dates of the meetings, MS Project lengthened my actual duration to a much longer duration than 12 hours. Why? I'm not sure what I need to do to get MS Project to reflect the reality of 12 hours duration? Tag: Help need for writing PDS Extender Tag: 76128
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    - Text Description on Link Lines ? Is it possible to provide a Text Description on Link Lines ? Tag: Help need for writing PDS Extender Tag: 76120
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    - Analyse timescale data in project using excel I have a large Master file, with many resources / project and tasks, when using the analyse timescale data, it lets me dump overall data into Excel, but I need to to take over some custom text files and things like Resource Name. I need to use this data in a pivot table, so I can show how busy my resources are in Wk 1 jan, Wk 2 Jan etc. ,and which projects they are wokring on, and how many hours they are going to spend on each. Any suggesitons welcome. Tag: Help need for writing PDS Extender Tag: 76115
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    - Master Plan grouping by Outline Code does not work Using Project Server 2003, we need to create master plans to include task-level data within portfolio reports. We have a custom MS Project 2003 Grouping that has an Enterprise Project Outline Code as one of its grouping values. This Outline Code has 3 levels within its structure and we only want to group by the 3rd level. MS Project allows this, however the grouping seems to be duplicated in the view. All of the projects with the same outline code value do not group together. This works fine if the view is for only one project. Has anyone created a level specific grouping for a master project plan? Tag: Help need for writing PDS Extender Tag: 76114
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    - create a view/report to show tasks and resources It's a simple view/report required which is divided into 4 sections. - Upper Left : contains all tasks - Lower Left : contains resource names - Upper Right : contains Gantt - Lower right : contains aggregated resource values for same time periods as Gantt It should loook something like this (but bigger!!) +-------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | | | | | Tasks | Gantt | | | | | | | |----------------------|---------------------------------------| | | | | Res names | resource totals | | | | +-------------------------------------------------------------+ THere are 2 conditions 1. It has to be printable on one report 2. the resources section on the lower part should only contain aggregated resource totals and NO task details. Can this be achieved. If you're familiar with PMW, it was the basic Gantt chart view. Help! Tag: Help need for writing PDS Extender Tag: 76113
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    - pushing back a whole project Dear Group, I have a file containing multiple projects (inserted) in Project 2002. Is there a way I can push a whole project back by say 1 week? I can do it by moving each task one at a time, but I'm sure that there must be a quicker way. Any clues? Thanks very much, Dan Tag: Help need for writing PDS Extender Tag: 76101
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    - task type question Does having the event-driven checkbox checked on the Task Details Form truly have an imact on what MS Project does for a task with a Fixed-Duration task type? Tag: Help need for writing PDS Extender Tag: 76098
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    - Project extension questions What is the difference between .mpt and .mpp? Does it really matter which extension I use for projects and templates? Tag: Help need for writing PDS Extender Tag: 76097
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    - Regarding ms project automation How to get data from ms project in vc ?. to access the project detalis in *.MPP file and to save it into a database using VC++ by automation Tag: Help need for writing PDS Extender Tag: 76090
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    - start & finish dates - what happens to dates inbetween I have a large project that I need to create a pivot table and various reports on. Th e pivot table needs to display by week, the amount of hours that are required by each resource. However, I can only export Start & Finsih dates to Excel, I am unable to work out how to create a pivot table that will show that a resource is working on a task over 3 months so Wk1 = 16 hrs effort, wk2 etc..... Using grouping on the pivot doesn't work as it only shows the week the task starts in. Does Project have a 'work effort by week' report? The 'resource usage' report gives me what I want, but I can't export it to Excel, is there a way???? Tag: Help need for writing PDS Extender Tag: 76089
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    - How do I weight percentages using Project 2000? Is there a way to reflect the weighting of percentages? For example I have a task with two subtasks. One sub-task is 100% and the other is 60% which shows that task to be 86% complete. Disregard the days, since this person really dragged their heals and really should have only taken a month, but the effort was easy compared to the other task. I would think the 86% should be more like 65%. Is this doable? Thanks SAP Controls 191 days? 191 days? Fri 5/7/04 Fri 1/28/05 86% NA NA Complete Questionaires-BB 104 days? 104 days? Fri 5/7/04 Wed 9/29/04 100% Sat 7/31/04 Wed 9/29/04 Gerald's plan 58 days? 58 days? Wed 11/10/04 Fri 1/28/05 60% NA NA Tag: Help need for writing PDS Extender Tag: 76085
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    - How do I show the % complete (planned) that will change my status. I would like to see a number for % planned. The threshold for when the number entered in % complete would change the status from "Late" to "On schedule" What Calculation is Project using to change the status? Tag: Help need for writing PDS Extender Tag: 76083
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    - install both verions of MSProject 2002 and 2003 Hi, I am just wondering can I install both verions of MSProject 2002 and 2003 on a single machine and run it side by side without affecting each other because I am developing an addin to support both. Jonathan. Tag: Help need for writing PDS Extender Tag: 76082
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    - How do I change a positive duration in the Outlook Calendar setti. I am trying to access information in a calendar cell in Outlook and everytime I click on the cell an infromation pops up and says " Can't open this item. You must enter a positive duration". Please give me instructions to get the cell opened. I feel somehow the start and end dates are the same and I cannot get in the cell to change them. Thank you for your help in this matter. Tag: Help need for writing PDS Extender Tag: 76077
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    - Phantom Links We have a problem where task linkages remain as pred and succ links even after the pred or succ was deleted. Does anyone know what causes this? Thanks for any help. Matt Steele Tag: Help need for writing PDS Extender Tag: 76067
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    - MSP2000 crash with Task Usage view One of my coworkers uses MSP2000 (SR1) on Windows XP Pro and is having a problem with a series of projects. Specifically, when she opens the Task Usage view, the MSP2000 program crashes. Does anyone know what causes this? Thanks for any help Tag: Help need for writing PDS Extender Tag: 76066
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    - Task completed at 50% Hi, Let's say I have a 8 hours task. Is it possible to make the task 50% complete even if my ressources did 10 hours on that task? Thanks Stefan Tag: Help need for writing PDS Extender Tag: 76065
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    - is venus made of rock or gas i have 1 question is the planet Venus made of rock or gas i need to know by 2 day jan 5 2005. Tag: Help need for writing PDS Extender Tag: 76064
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    - Administrative projects of Project server Hello! We have a lot of problems with "administrative projects" - non-project items for which we need to report time (vacation days, sick time, etc). The problem is that these administrative projects still seem to behave like normal projects. For example, MS Project still tries to calculate an end date, a task duration, the amount of remaining work, etc, for things like sick time or vacation. I would really appreciate if I could get any help on how to correctly use the "administrative project" feature of Project Server. Thank you. Tag: Help need for writing PDS Extender Tag: 76059
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    - Project 2002 will run install when opened Everytime a user opens MS proj 2002 it runs the install. It used to work fine before. I uninstalled it as an admin and re-installed at users login (a network install, with user users given rights in a group to install), but problem comes back. We are using Office XP sp3 and Win XP sp2. It gives a message saying Project was not closed properly and will open in safe mode. Choosing yes or no gives same action, that is re-installing the software and at the end will give an error msg that the system is out of memory, and terminates the install. The system has 1GB RAM. Virus and spyware scans were done and nothing much suggest of a virus or spyware problem. Any suggestions. Tag: Help need for writing PDS Extender Tag: 76058
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    - Autofilter - Missing data in drop box I have a large file with multipule names in over 1800 rows, as well as other information in the columns, such as ref numbers. The problem is when I use Autofilter, some of the names in one column doesn't show in the drop down box. As an example, let say you have the letter A in A1, B in A2 and C in A3 with the heading of "Letters". When you use autofilter, you should see A, B, C in the drop box. However, in my case, I'm only seeing A and C, I'm not able to find B in the drop down box list. I'm seeing this same problem in my spreadsheet, however, it's on a much larger scale. What is more frustrating, is when I use the autofilter drop box I can see (for example) letter X in row 1200 but letter Y in row 1201 isn't avaliable. There isn't any gaps inbetween the data, and I can't see any reason why a field in a column wouldn't show up when the one right above it is showing up! If anyone has clue on how to fix this, please let me know!!! Tag: Help need for writing PDS Extender Tag: 76053
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    - Calculating Overtime Hello everyone, is there a way to make MS-Project calculate overtime automatically. If I have a resource that I defined that can work 7 hours a week, when he works 8 hours can MS-Project calculate 1 hour of overtime automatically? If so how can I make MS-Project do this? Thanks Stéfan Tag: Help need for writing PDS Extender Tag: 76049
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    - Task occurring on the same day each week Does anyone know how to have a task occur on the same day each week? I know I can define it as a recurring task but I want to leave my project plan as a top down plan versus a recurring task. This task involves updating status documents every Thursday with a status call to the client on Friday. I have the status call always occurring 1 day following the update of the status documents. I was hoping there was a way of defining the Thursday as being EOW (end of week) minus 1 day. Tag: Help need for writing PDS Extender Tag: 76047
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    - Any way to change which symbols appear in the legend? When I print a project, the legend shows: task, split, progress, milestone, summary, project summary, external tasks, external milestone, and deadline Is there any way to change or replace these? Specifically, I want to show a Report, which is like a green milestone icon. Any suggestions? Thanks, Colin Tag: Help need for writing PDS Extender Tag: 76041
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    - Project useful for production scheduling? Is anyone using Project for manufacturing production scheduling, resource allocation, et cetera? I'm trying to decide whether this product is suitable as both a scheduling and costing tool when producing batches (jobs, job lots, whatever) of widgets (on a per batch basis) using machinery staffed by multiple workers per machine. Thanks! Tag: Help need for writing PDS Extender Tag: 76040
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    - MS Project 2003 hyperlink warning message I have recently upgraded to MS Project 2003, and I use hyperlinks extensively to access excel files on my PC, but now every time I open a hyperlink I get a very annoying warning message telling me that â??Hyperlinks can be harmful, and am I sure that I really want to open this Hyperlinkâ?? Does anyone please now how to turn off this message? Cheers, Tony Tag: Help need for writing PDS Extender Tag: 76038
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    - Multiple Versions of Project I have to work with and advise staff on 98, 2000 and 2003 versions of Project. Is it possible to have all 3 versions installed on my laptop that can run seperately so that I can replicate problems using the target version? Tag: Help need for writing PDS Extender Tag: 76031
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    - Automated RAG Status Formula Can someone assist with just one final tweak to my formula. It currently depends on having a Date in the Baseline Finish field. If a date is not there (ie "NA") then I want it to return the value of "A" for amber. I have tried getting the formula to recognise "NA", NA or null but it is not working - can anyone assist? Formula is:- IIf([% Complete]=100,"C",IIf([Finish]<Date(),"R",IIf([Number1]>5,"R",IIf([Number1]>0,"A","G")))) and the formula within Number1 is:- DateDiff("d",[Baseline Finish],[Finish]) Tag: Help need for writing PDS Extender Tag: 76030
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    - Tailored calendar view in Project I'd like to be able to tailor different bar styles in the "Calendar view" in Project - in the same way that you can in "Gannt view". Anybody know if this is possible - and if so how? Tag: Help need for writing PDS Extender Tag: 76029
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    - resource list: Commas are being replaced by semi-colons - urgent h I have several resources allocated to a list of tasks, each resource has either been entered in Task information / resources sheet on a different line, or were entered in Gannt chart view, using drop-down list with commas to separate. e.g. David Jones, Susan Smith This has worked fine for approx. 3 months. Now when I open Project all the spaces in between names e.g. David Jones, have been replaced with David;Jones. When I remove the ; I am unable to repalce with a <space>, as I am told that I cannot have brackets []. then the words separate so that David beomces resource 1, then Jones becomes resource 2. Tag: Help need for writing PDS Extender Tag: 76027
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    - How do I create a critical path in MS Project? I'm trying to create a critical path in my project and can't remember how it's done. Can anyone remind me please/ Tag: Help need for writing PDS Extender Tag: 76025
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    - How to account for 2 similar resources where one works faster than other Hi, A task takes 4 days for one programming resource. You add another resource to it so it now goes down to 2 days. However, the other programmer should always only be 60% as efficient as programmer 1. How do you set 'similar' resources, where one is 'more' or 'less' efficient than the other? Thx. Tag: Help need for writing PDS Extender Tag: 76017
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    - How do I set up MS Project 98 to work with Windows XP Professiona. How do I set up MS Project 98 to work with Windows XP Professional? Because after installing it is asking for MSO97.dll does this work with Windows XP Professional? Thanks in advance for any help. Tag: Help need for writing PDS Extender Tag: 76016
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    - How do I get a global view of all projects in Project 2003 I have downloaded the 60 day trial version of Project 2003. I am entering individual projects with their related tasks. How do I see all of my projects on a "global calendar" or report. Do I need to have Project Web Access? Does that come with the trial version of Project 2003 or do I need to get something else? Tag: Help need for writing PDS Extender Tag: 76013

Hi
I am trying to write a PDS Extender for MS Project Server 2003, using
.Net platform. The problem is, if the client of the Extender has
Windows Administrative privileges then PDS propagates/ communicates the
request to my Extender and a successful reply is returned. If the user
does not have Windows Administrative privileges then client gets a
login failed message as listed below

<Reply>
<HRESULT>0</HRESULT>
<STATUS>1</STATUS>
<ProjectSites>
<Error>Login failed for user 'WIN2K3\Steve Masters'.</Error>
</ProjectSites>
</Reply>

Can any one tell me what sort of permission do I have to set for the
client.

Thanks

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Re: Help need for writing PDS Extender by Mike

Mike
Fri Jan 07 12:43:02 CST 2005

Hi Burki,

Try posting on the developer newsgroup. Please see FAQ Item: 24. Project
Newsgroups. FAQs, companion products and other useful Project information
can be seen at this web address: http://www.mvps.org/project/.

Mike Glen
Project MVP

Burki wrote:
> Hi
> I am trying to write a PDS Extender for MS Project Server 2003, using
> .Net platform. The problem is, if the client of the Extender has
> Windows Administrative privileges then PDS propagates/ communicates
> the request to my Extender and a successful reply is returned. If the
> user does not have Windows Administrative privileges then client gets
> a login failed message as listed below
>
> <Reply>
> <HRESULT>0</HRESULT>
> <STATUS>1</STATUS>
> <ProjectSites>
> <Error>Login failed for user 'WIN2K3\Steve Masters'.</Error>
> </ProjectSites>
> </Reply>
>
> Can any one tell me what sort of permission do I have to set for the
> client.
>
> Thanks

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