Self service reporting 1/2

Note: If you are a PPM consultant, this post will be very very basic.
I often get the question if it is possible to do self service reporting in Project Online. Now if you want self service reporting for all your project and team members you need some really good BI skills and thoroughly design the underlying data layer and make considerations for security.

However, if you are just a single PMO guy/girl and just want a way to analyze your portfolio there is a simpler choice.

Alright, to do self service reporting you can chose to use many different tools. I will here show you how it can be done in Excel and in a later post how it can be done in PowerBI which also have a nice publish/share feature.

Excel

Excel have some obvious advantages. You already know this tool, easy to understand, easy to use and extend.
Disadvantages: Impossible/difficult to publish to users, not easy to integrate, manual refresh (in most cases.

Let's go...
Find your Project Online/PWA URL. This is the URL you use to access the front page of the PWA, ex: https://yourcompany.sharepoint.com/sites/pwa/

Open the latest version of Excel (currently Excel 2016/Office 365).
Navigate to and click on "From OData Feed"

Next paste in your PWA URL followed by "_api/ProjectData/[en-US]/".
Ex. if your PWA URL is: https://yourcompany.sharepoint.com/sites/pwa/ then you should paste in: https://yourcompany.sharepoint.com/sites/pwa/_api/ProjectData/[en-US]/

On the Navigator dialog, chose the "Projects" datafeed.
Note: Of cause you can chose any of the other datafeeds as well, but these are for more complex scenarios.

And just like that you got all your project data in a nice table.

However, if you want to present this to your boss you might want to clean out the data a little.

In Queries & Connections right-click on Projects and select "Load To..."

Select "PivotTable Report" and "New worksheet".

Click OK if you see a warning dialog.
With the PivotTable selected, go to Insert and chose your favorite chart.

Now simply add the fields you want to analyze and you will have a nice report in no time.

Azure DevOps - Gantt Chart

It's been a while since my last post - in the past couple of weeks I have played around with some videos of topics I find interesting. One of these topics are a very cool way of displaying a Gantt Chart upon your Azure DevOps board's. Check it out here!

Sharepoint/Project Server App with javascript and Web Part

Getting Project Server code to run in a AppPart Today I tried to get project server CSOM/javascript code to run within an app part. This caused a lot of troubleshooting and guessing to get it to work. By simply adding the ps.js library to the app part page I kept getting an error. Library: <script type="text/javascript" src="/_layouts/15/ps.js"></script> Error: "executeordelayuntilscriptloaded is undefined" Then I tried to use ScriptLink to load the library but got the same error. <SharePoint:ScriptLink runat="server" Name="ps.js" Localizable="false" OnDemand="False" LoadAfterUI="True"></SharePoint:ScriptLink> The code I was trying to run was very simpel and worked fine if I added it to a normal aspx page. $(document).ready(function () { var projContext = PS.ProjectContext.get_current(); var projects = projContext.get_projects(); projContext.load(projects...

PowerShell results size unlimited/truncated - $FormatEnumerationLimit/Width

Ever experienced the problem where you run a Powershell command and you cannot see the whole result because the result is truncated. Problem: If you for example run the Test-SPsite command you might see something like the following: Site : SPSite Url=http://atlas/pwa Results : { SPSiteHealthResult Status=Passed RuleName="Conflicting Content Types" RuleId=befe203b-a8c0-48c2-b5f0-27c10f9e1622, SPSiteHealthResult Status=FailedWarning RuleName="Customized Files" RuleId=cd839b0d-9707-4950-8fac-f306cb920f6c, SPSiteHealthResult Status=Passed RuleName="Missing Galleries" RuleId=ee967197-ccbe-4c00-88e4-e6fab81145e1, SPSiteHealthResult Status=Passed RuleName="Missing Parent Content Types" RuleId=a9a6769f-7289-4b9f-ae7f-5db4b997d284, SPSiteHealthResult Status=FailedError RuleName="Missing Site Templates" RuleId=5258ccf5-e7d6-4df7-b8ae-12fcc0513ebd, ...

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