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How do I open a group of projects automatically as a batch without opening each project individually?



Microsoft Project Server Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs): Overview



Microsoft Project Server Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs): Details

Background Information

If you navigate to the Project Center page in Project Web Access, select a group of projects, and then click the Open button, the system launches Microsoft Project Professional and creates a master project from the selected projects. If you want to work with a master project, this is nice. However, if you do not want to use a master project for this purpose, then use the following method to save and open a group of projects using a Workspace file.

Resolution

Complete the following steps to save a group of projects as a Workspace file:

1.  Launch Microsoft Project Professional and log into Project Server.

2.  Close the blank project that opens automatically in Microsoft Project.

3.  Open each project individually until you have opened all of your desired projects.

4.  Click File - Save Workspace.

5.  Name the workspace file and save it in a convenient location, such as your My Documents folder.

6.  If prompted, click the Yes button when prompted to save each of the projects in the workspace.

7.  Close each of the projects.

To open the group of projects at once, do the following:

1.  Launch Microsoft Project Professional and log into Project Server.

2.  Click File - Open and then click the Open from File button (Project Server 2002 and 2003 only).

- OR -

2.  Click File - Open and navigate to the folder containing the Workspace file (Project Server 2007 only).

3.  Select the workspace file you saved in step #5 in the first set of steps and then click the Open button.

The system will automatically open each of the individual files saved in the workspace file.

 

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Microsoft Project Server Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) provide information about Microsoft Project Server 2002, Microsoft Project Server 2003, Microsoft Project Server 2007, and Microsoft Project Server 2010.

Topics include common errors and the Project Server queue, project manager and resource manager approvals, enterprise calendars, enterprise custom fields, enterprise projects and the enterprise resource pool, user access, reports and OLAP analysis, resource work, project costing, task progress reporting and timesheets, Project Web Access (PWA) and Project Professional, check-out check-in and the local cache, saving and publishing, and issues risks deliverables documents and project workspaces.

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