GIF image can then be sent to you in email, printed out, or added to a Web page.Ĭopy to another Office application Project contains enhanced functionality for basic copying and pasting project information while retaining formatting and column heading information. You can then open the project using the trail version.Ĭopy Picture The person who created the project can use the Copy Picture feature to copy a.
Trial version If you don't have Project Web App, and you cannot contact the file's creator, you can obtain a trial version of Project. Then you can view the project in Project Web App. Project Web Access If your organization is using Microsoft Project Web App, you can ask the project manager to publish the project and then give you permission to view the project. If you don't have Project installed, consider the following options for viewing a project plan. View a Project file created in a later version of Project View project information if you don't have any version of Project installed I still don't know what actually originally causes the problem but clearing the cache seems to do the trick.Note: Keep in mind that Project doesn't have a viewer program that enables you to open a project file on a computer that doesn't have Project installed. Afterward, I found this post which seems related. Now, after editing MS Project files and then closing them, a temporary lock is occassionally retained for a couple of minutes but then I can open them again in edit mode.
and checking the "Delete all offline content" checkbox). I tried emptying the IE file cache on my machine (from the IE menu Tools | Internet Options. The file saving problem was making me suspect that maybe there was a temporary file somewhere that wasn't being deleted when it should have. I just had another idea today regarding the long term locking that I've been experiencing. No matter how long I waited to do this I would get a similar error message to the above or simply "The file already exists". After saving the original file as a new file name, I tried to delete the original file from within Team Explorer and then save the renamed file with the original filename or just change the name from within Team Explorer using the "Rename" menu item from the popup menu. Occassionally I was unable to save the file and would get an error message saying something like the "The file name is either too long or already exists". Usually I could just rename the file as 1.mpp and that would allow me to edit the newly saved file. To be specific, I should have said that we are running WSS 2.0 SP3 on TFS 2005 SP1.Īnother thing that I didn't mention is that I was having problems saving the Project files that opened as read-only with different file names.
Does Microsoft really ever use their own products as they claim? I'm seriously starting to doubt their "dog food" claims. If users are unable to use the project management features of TFS then I suppose Microsoft expects us to adopt their own in-house a-hoc anything-goes development methodology. The fact that Microsoft has not fixed this MAJOR problem after over a year and a half of user complaints is totally ridiculous.
This makes me wonder what special versions of software were used in all the pre-release webcasts that purported to demonstrate the TFS collaboration and Office integration features.
I don't even know why any developer would write this kind of crude clunky code let alone why a major software company would release it. In my experience the locks are held indefinitely and arbitrarily. The KB article referring to the 10 minute file lock that SharePoint holds on Project files is just total B.S. The only alternative is to keep saving the file with a new file name. Occassionally, when all the correct planets are aligned and four-leaf clovers are blooming around my desk and a co-worker simultaneously hands me a lucky horseshoe or rabbit's foot, a Project file will open in read-write mode from Team Explorer but once it is closed the probability that it can be opened again in edit mode that day or over several days is extremely low. I have never been able to open Project files from the SharePoint portal in edit mode. Almost every time a MS Project file is opened from within the VS Team Explorer it is has a read only lock (even if the "Edit" menu item is selected).
We are running TFS SP1 and WSS SP3 on a Windows 2003 server and using VS2005 Team Suite SP1 on Windows XP SP2 with MS Office Professional 2003 SP3. Just to confirm the above posts, this has been a problem ever since VS 2005 and TFS were released and it's STILL a problem.