skaarj

Hello again,

my second problem is also regarding Project Server 2007 and the PSI
web service.

With Project Prof. 2007 I created a fresh new project and added two
enterprise resources, then I saved this project into Project Server
2007. There are no tasks, assignments or anything else, just the
project and two added enterprise resources which I can see in the
"Resource usage" view. Also the project is not published just saved.
My small C# project now can check-out this project into a
ProjectDataSet and there in the ProjectResource table are stored the
two enterprise resources, ready to be assigned to work :-)

Ok, what I did with Project Prof. 2007 shall now do my small C#
project too. It can create a fresh new project and check-out it, but
to add now an enterprise resource is after uncounted tries an
unresolvable problem. I am not able to add an enterprise resource to a
project, like what I did with Project Prof 2007. Besides, the SDK only
describes how to add *new* ("ad-hoc created") resources to a project
but not existing enterprise resources.

My idea is when a resource already exists, like an enterprise resource
in Project Server 2007, the RES_UID should be enough to identify this
resource in the whole Project Server 2007 environment.

I really cant describe which try led exactly to which exception/error,
because I'm trying this for approximately 4 months now, so here is
what I tried and what I got.

- adding a ProjectResourceRow with the enterprise resource to the
ProjectResource table of the ProjectDataSet together with
QueueUpdateProject method
- using a separate ProjectDataSet with ProjectResourceRow in
ProjectResource table together with QueueAddToProject method
- using same ProjectDataSet together with QueueAddToProject method
- using ProjectTeamDataSet together with QueueUpdateProjectTeam method

I got those exceptions/errors:
- RES_UID invalid
- PROJ_UID invalid
- PROJ_UID does not allow null value
- Resource not found

Sorry, I really cannot tell which try led to which error, most are
SOAP errors, but as a summary of all of this I cannot add an
enterprise resource to a project with my small C# project, like what I
did with Project Prof. 2007 .
All ways using ProjectDataSet, ProjectTeamDataSet, QueueAddToProject,
QueueUpdateProject, QueueUpdateProjectTeam failed completety.

The SDK arrives with a demonstration project called "ProjTool" - but
this project is all but helpful in this case, so when I try to build a
project team there I get this error as a message box: "Error
occured"....that's all. It's no joke, this demonstration project also
cannot build a project team, which seems to be what I have to do to
add enterprise resources to a project.
I just mention it to show that I already peeked into this sample
(since Project Server 2007 Beta 2) to find out how it is done but what
I found is a common error routine which pops up the message box "Error
occured".

Please if anybody knows what I did wrong and has a solution or hint to
solve my problem, adding an enterprise resource to a project, I would
be thankful.

Regards,
Gernot Mulisch

sharry heberer [msft]

If you are trying to add existing Enterprise Resources to an existing
project, then QueueUpdateProjectTeam is what you want. On the
ProjectTeamRow, you must make sure to set the PROJ_UID (the Guid of the
project), the RES_UID (the Guid of the Enterprise Resource), the NEW_RES_UID
(also equal to the Guid of the Enterprise Resource), and
RES_IS_ENTERPRISE_RESOURCE (set this to true).

Note especially the last 2 fields - it may not be completely obvious that
these 2 fields must be set, but they do need to be set. I hope this
helps....

skaarj

Yes it does :-)
I did not set NEW_RES_UID - now my code is working, thank you very
much!

Btw.: just for fun I did not set a value for
RES_IS_ENTERPRISE_RESOURCE and it also worked fine - but of course I
will set this value in my code.


Regards,
Gernot Mulisch

sharry heberer [msft]

No problem, glad I could help!