By default, Microsoft Office Project Professional 2007 creates a project workspace site on Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 when it publishes a project. The project workspace template that is used for site creation can be extended and customized to better suit the needs of your organization. This article explains what makes a valid project workspace template, how to create an extended template, and how to install a custom template. (The code samples and procedures in this article were contributed by Eric Zenz, Microsoft Corporation.) For an introduction to Project Server integration with Windows SharePoint Services, see. Maximize Office 365 for project management. Microsoft Office 365. Figure C shows the Decision Making Workspace template ready to be populated for a meeting. Extending the Project Workspace Template By default, Microsoft Office Project Professional 2007 creates a project workspace site on Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 when it publishes a project. The project workspace template that is used for site creation. Introducing Workspaces by Akumina- Project Collaboration for Office. Microsoft GraphAPI, Workspaces pulls in the. Created and project-relevant templates. A project workspace site contains issues, risks, documents, and deliverables associated with an enterprise project. You can set up Microsoft Office Project Web Access. To create a new site go to the site actions tab in Project Web Access and select “Create”, on the Create page select the Sites and Workspaces option displayed under the Web Pages heading. Follow the prompts displayed on the New SharePoint Site page, selecting the Microsoft Office Project Workspace template as the. For more sample code that addresses project workspaces, see. A valid project workspace is a Windows SharePoint Services site that includes the project workspace collaboration lists. Data in project workspaces, such as documents and list data, is saved in the related Windows SharePoint Services content database. A project workspace site includes the following specialized lists for team collaboration: • Project Documents • Project Issues • Project Risks • Project Deliverables You can open a project workspace site from the home page or from the Project Center page in Project Web Access. On the Project Center page, select a project row and then click Project Workspace on the Go To drop-down menu. The Documents link in Quick Launch (Figure 1) goes to a page that contains a specialized list for project documents. The Deliverables, Issues, and Risks folders in Figure 1 contain specialized lists that are specifically designed for project team collaboration. The other default lists in the All Site Content page ( Announcements, Calendar, Links, and Tasks) are generic lists that are available in all Windows SharePoint Services sites. Adding columns in the Issues list You can link any site within a Windows SharePoint Services farm to a project plan, or extend the site with a custom project workspace template, if the site meets the following conditions: • The site is associated with a Shared Services Provider (SSP). • The SSP includes a Project Server Application Service instance. If you are in the Site Collection Administrators group of Windows SharePoint Services, you can use the Central Administration page to determine whether the site qualifies. Procedure 1: To determine whether a SharePoint site can use a project workspace template. • Open the Central Administration page for Windows SharePoint Services, using one of the following methods: • If you are logged on the Windows SharePoint Services server, on the Windows Start menu, click Microsoft Office Server. Then, on the All Programs menu, click SharePoint 3.0 Central Administration. • If you know the URL, access the Central Administration page remotely. For example, if the server port of the Windows SharePoint Services Central Administration site in Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager is 18294, use the URL • Click Application Management. On the Application Management page, click Create or Configure this Farm's Shared Services. If the SharePoint farm has an SSP, it is in the list on the Manage this Farm's Shared Services page. For example, if there is a site named SharedServices1, all of the Web sites that are associated with that SSP are listed under SharedServices1. • To see if a Project Server Application Service is running for that SSP, click Operations on the page menu or in Quick Launch. • In the Topology and Services section of the Operations page, click Servers in farm. • The Servers in Farm page shows the services that are running on each server in the SharePoint farm. Determine whether the Project Application Service is running on the server that has the SSP Web site. If so, it can use a project workspace template. • In the SharePoint 3.0 Central Administration application, click the Site Actions menu on the upper right of any page, and then click Create. • On the Create page, click Sites and Workspaces in the Web Pages section. • On the New SharePoint Site page, select the Microsoft Office Project Workspace template, and fill in the site title, description, and URL name. For example, the site title could be Sample Workspace Template and the URL name could be • Click Use unique permissions, and then click No in both the Navigation and Navigation Inheritance sections. • Click Create. SharePoint creates the site and then shows the Set Up Groups for this Site page. Because the site is going to be a template, you can use the existing Farm Administrators group for the Visitors, Members, and Owners sections. You can extend the new project workspace template using an application such as Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007, or modify the standard Windows SharePoint Services pages by adding custom Web Parts. Project workspace site extensions include, but are not limited to, the following: • Adding standard Windows SharePoint Services lists. • Adding custom lists. • Adding sample data. • Adding columns to lists. • Adding views. • Adding Web Parts to the home page of the site. • Customizing the look and feel of the site. Adding and customizing Web Parts are easy and flexible ways to extend a workspace home page. For information about how to add Project Server and custom Web Parts to pages, see. For more information about customizing sites, lists, Web Parts, and other features of Windows SharePoint Services, see the How Do I in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 overview article in the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SDK. For one way to change the look and feel of the site, click Site Settings on the Site Actions menu. Experiment with the options in the Look and Feel section on the Site Settings page. For example, change the site theme. You could also create a new image to use in the right zone of the page. For example, copy HOMEPAGE.GIF in the [Program Files] Common Files Microsoft Shared web server extensions 12 TEMPLATE IMAGES directory to a new file named homepage_workspace.gif. Click Edit Page on the Site Actions menu, click Edit in the Site Image Web Part, and then change the relative path or URL to the new image. For example, change /_layouts/images/homepage.gif to /_layouts/images/homepage_workspace.gif. After you modify the workspace site, you can create a site template (.stp) file. Procedure 3: To create a project workspace site template. • Navigate to the project workspace site you want for the template source. For example, if the site name you created in Procedure 2 is Sample Workspace Template, use the workspace home page URL such as Use one of the two following steps to save the workspace as a template: • On the Site Actions menu, click Site Settings. On the Site Settings page, in Look and Feel, click Save site as a template. • Type the URL of the Save Site as Template page. For the Sample Workspace Template example, type the following in the Address bar of Internet Explorer: • On the Save Site as Template page, type a file name, title, and description for the template, and then choose whether to include content. For example, save the template file as MyWorkspaceTemplate.stp, with the template name My Project Workspace. • If you included custom workflows, lists with content, or documents in the site, check Include Content. • Click OK • On the Operation Completed Successfully page, click Site template gallery. • Right-click the name of the new template in the Site Template Gallery list, and then click Save Target As to save the template.stp file. Stsadm -o addtemplate -filename ' MyWorkspaceTemplate.stp' -title 'Test Workspace Title' • Run the command IISReset. Your new template is now registered for global use within Web applications associated with the SSP that contains the instance of Project Web Access. • To see the list of registered templates, run the command stsadm -o enumtemplates. For the example template, the command outputs the following. Test Workspace Title - Language: 1033 - Site Template: _GLOBAL_#0 - Template Id: 6215 The site template title is the name that appears in the Default Project Workspace template list on the Project Workspace Provisioning Settings page in Project Web Access. • On the home page of Project Web Access, click Server Settings. • In Operational Policies, click Project Workspace Provisioning Settings. • In the Default Project Workspace template list on the Project Workspace Provisioning Settings page, select the project workspace template you created. For example, select Test Workspace Title. • Click Save. You can also change the site settings for a workspace template programmatically using the Project Server Interface (PSI). The example code shows how to change settings that are on the Project Workspace Provisioning Settings page. You can change the following settings: • Site URL • Default workspace template • Default workspace properties • Automatic provisioning • Workspace permissions The WssInterop PSI Web service includes the class and the DataSet classes for managing project workspace settings. You can create a simple test application using Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 that shows how to get and set workspace provisioning settings. The following example uses Microsoft Visual C#. Procedure 6: To create and test an application that uses the WssInterop Web service.
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