Data Sheet

Microsoft Project Server 2010 Project Manager’s Guide
for Project Web App

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Contents
Introduction 5
Who should read this book? 5
Microsoft ProjectServer 2010 Administrator's Guide 5
Revision History 6
1 7
Navigating Project Web App 7
Get oriented 9
The Quick Launch area 10
The ribbon area 10
The content display area 11
Key areas 11
Create projects and schedule tasks 12
Work with resources 12
Track time and task progress 12
2 13
Managing projects in Project Web App 13
Using the ribbon to manage projects 13
About theProject Center 14
Creating new projects in PWA 15
Viewing and opening projects 17
Viewing projects 17
Opening projects 21
Forced check-in of a project 23
Set up project permissions in PWA 24
Editing custom fields 25
Changing ownership of a project 26
Exporting Project Center data to Excel 26
Modifying project plans in PWA 28
3 33
Managing Resources 33
Overview of theResource Center 33
The Resource Center ribbon 34
Using the Filter drop-down and Group By features in the Resource Center 34
Resource types 35
Viewing resource assignments 36
View resource availability 37
Create a new resource in PWA 38
Adding resources to a project plan 41
Exporting Resource Center data to Excel 2010 43
4 45
Managing task updates 45
Submitting task updates 45Task viewing options 49
Task update approval 50
Processing task changes and requests 52
Processing Task Changes from the Approval Center 53
5 56
Managing issues, risks, and documents 56
Project risks 56
Adding project risks 57
Viewing and managing risks 58
Project issues 58
Adding project issues 58
Viewing and managing issues 59
Project documents 59
Adding projectdocuments 60
6 62
Managing status reports 62
Requesting and updating status reports 64
Viewing status reports 67
Viewing the status report archive 68
7 70
Configuring e-mail notifications and reminders 70
Overview of e-mail notifications and reminders 71
Configuring personal notifications and reminders 72
Subscribe to personal e-mail notifications and alerts 72
Unsubscribe topersonal e-mail notifications and alerts 74
Configuring notifications and reminders for your resources 75
Subscribe your resources to alerts and e-mail notifications 75
Unsubscribe your resources from e-mail notifications 77

Introduction
The Project Manager's Guide to Project Web App provides detailed information about how to use Project Web App (PWA) to work with Microsoft Project Server 2010data and to perform project management-related tasks. This guide helps project managers in your organization to better understand elements of project management in PWA, such as the following:
Projects
Resources
Status updates and approvals
Project issues, risks, and documents
Notifications and alerts sent to project members
See the table of contents for a complete listing of the subjectscovered in this guide.
Important: Although Project Professional 2010 can be used with Project Server 2010 to perform many project management tasks, this guide only covers procedures done through PWA.
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