Microsoft Project Project Integration (PRJMSP)

This document describes how to set up your integration for Microsoft Project and how to prepare your system to support a successful installation.

Contents

• Prerequisites
• Installation
• MSP Settings
• Versioning
• Language Limitations
• Uninstalling

Prerequisites

This software must be installed in this order prior to installing the Microsoft Project Integration:

• Project (PROJ) module
• Microsoft Project 2010 (Professional or Standard edition. Integration does not support any version other than MS project 2010).
• Microsoft .NET Framework 4 client profile
• Visual Studio 2010 Tools for Office Runtime 4 (VSTO 4)

Installation

When the steps in Prerequisites have been completed, the Microsoft Project (MSP) Project Integration can be installed in 2 ways:

1. Visiit the first page of the web server that has link to IFS Enterprise Explorer. There you will find link called "Microsoft Project Add-In" and click it. Once the link is clicked, Add-In will be installed.
2. By manually execute the installation file (Prerequisites .Net and VSTO will be automatically installed)

   ” prjmsp\source\prjmsp\client\Publish\setup.exe”  

This integration is installed onto Microsoft Project as a add-in and utilizes a bundled Foundation1 .NET Access Provider to connect to IFS Applications. This new version also includes runtime translation support by reading this information from IFS Applications.

MSP Settings

When using the integration in MSP 2010 or above versions the following settings should be done in MSP prior to import to MSP:

1. All new tasks should be set to be created in "Auto Scheduled" mode instead of "Manual Scheduled" mode.

          How to change the setting:

          1. Select menu "Files\Options"

          2. Select "Schedule" from the list on the left.

          3. Select "Auto Scheduled" from drop down list for "New tasks created:" option on the right.

2. "Updating task status updates resource status" check box should be unchecked.  

          How to change the setting:

          1. Select menu "Files\Options"

          2. Select "Schedule" from the list on the left.

          3. Uncheck "Updating task status updates resource status" option on the right.

Versioning

The version of any given Office Add-In will be its Click-Once deployment version where each of the version numbers will have a clear meaning.

Click Once deployment version: M.m.b.r (Major.Minor.Build.Revision)

• Major: Office version (nn) + future use (nnn)
• Minor: Target IFS Applications version (nnn) + target Component version (nn) – 2 of the 3 digits
• Build: RnD Binary Patch number (nnnnn)
• Revision: Reserved for internal development and customizations (nnnnn).
   

For example: 14000.8020.00001.00000

• 1400.x.x.x  Microsoft Project 2010
• x.08020.x.x IFS Applications 8 and service pack 0 and Prjmsp version 2.0.0
• x.x.00001.x Patch version 00001
• x.x.x.0 Internal version 00000

Language Limitations

These languages is supported/delivered for Microsoft Project but not available in IFS Applications:

• Greek
• Hebrew
• Turkish

When using Microsoft Project in these languages, the language in the add-in will default to English.

Security

In the IFS Solution Manager, ensure activity handle "MspOperationManager" is granted to the permission-set "MSP_INTEGRATION" to run the MSP Integration. By default activity handle is granted to the permission-set "MSP_INTEGRATION". If the permission-set does not exist after installation it should be created manually (Run prjmsp\database\prjmsp\ POST_Prjmsp_MSPPermissionSet.sql).

To grant this permission set, only add the new permission-set toward the users that should be allowed access.

Uninstalling

• Open the list of programs that are installed on your computer. You can open this list from Control Panel.
• Select “MS Project Add-In for IFS Project Management”, and then click Remove or Uninstall.
• If you are installing the Add-In after a one uninstallation, you will probably get an error
  •  Run “mage –cc” (you find it inside “Microsoft Windows SDK Tools” folder).
  •  If that does not work:
     Delete folders inside %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\IsolatedStorage and then delete add registry entries that contains name “prjmsp”