Creating Custom Views in the Enterprise Global

One of our customers at PPM Works recently asked how to how modify the views in Project Professional for all their users. She was wondering if there was a way to bulk edit Project Professional. The answer is yes. Changes to the Enterprise Global are pushed out to all users next time they open Project Professional connected to the server.

As a best practice, new tables and views should be created in a blank project and copied over in to the Enterprise Global. This added step prevents corruption of the Enterprise Global.

  1. Open a blank project while connected to your server
  2. Modify an existing view
  3. From the View ribbon, click the Table drop down and select Save the fields as a New Table

save the fields as a new table

4.   Create a new view using the table you just created – select Other Views

More Views

move views in microsoft project gantt chart

5.  Select New

new in more views

6.  Name the view, select the screen, add the new table, choose if it is grouped or filtered (these cannot be left blank), leave Show in menu checked and click OK to create

view definition in project

7.   Open the Enterprise Global – File

Organizer

Open Enterprise Global

open enterprise global    checked out enterprise global in project professional

8.  Copy the table and the view in to the Enterprise Global – File

Info

Organizer

organizer     organizer views for planning view

9.  Save, Close and check in the Enterprise Global

 

Do not delete any of the default views and tables in the Enterprise Global.

Hope this helps. Please contact us with questions.