Monthly Archives: May 2012

UMT Project Essentials 2012 Public Availability

Just making sure you saw this latest announcement about our industry-leading financial analytics and workflow tool… http://umtblog.com/2012/05/29/announcing-the-public-availability-of-umt-project-essentials-2012/

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Project VBA and Azure: Better Together

I know what you’re all thinking.  Project 2010 is fantastic – and we can’t wait till we get to see the next version.  The only problem is that there’s this one critical function that Microsoft really needs to bake into … Continue reading

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Revisiting Project Trend Analysis and Project Change Logs

The question always arises as to how to best take a snapshot of project data, and use that in timephased reports or change logs.  In fact, by my count, this is the third time I’ve addressed this topic in this … Continue reading

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Developing with UMT Project Essentials

For those developer types working in the ever increasing number of organizations that have deployed our Project Essentials product – I wanted to make sure you saw Mircea’s post on developing custom applications against PE: http://www.ro.umt.com/blog/2012/05/08/developing-project-essentials-applications-using-wcf-2/

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Incorporating Project Server Data into Word Documents

This is a topic I’ve briefly played with before – how to automatically incorporate Project Server data into Office documents.  The REST API has long been the go to tool for doing such things, as the API allows us to … Continue reading

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Calculating Elapsed Duration

I’ve been using so many of Microsoft Project’s approximately 900 functions for so long, that often times, I forget that some of the functions I take for granted are often undiscovered to long time users of the software.  In the … Continue reading

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