Hello everyone.
My name is Joe Dickson [SP] and I'm a consultant at E.P.M.A.
Today I'm going to be walking you through how to force checking your enterprise schedules
in the P.W.A., or the project server.
I have noticed many times that some project owners or project managers do not know how
to check in their schedules.
Sometimes I give them a call and say to them, "Please, I need you to check in your schedule
so I can make some changes," and what they tell me most of the time is that, "Oh, I have
it checked in already."
I tell them, "No, you don't have it checked in because I'm trying to work on it right
now and it's showing me a message that you have it checked out."
And so what I do from there is to walk them through the process of checking in the schedule
in the P.W.A., and that's exactly what I'm going to do today with you.
And so let's start by making sure that we are in P.W.A. home.
Once you click that, it will take you to the homepage, so this is the home page where you
have the approvals, the tasks, and all these issues and risks, and so once that is done,
you go to settings.
In some cases, these settings will show as as P.W.A.
settings.
Whatever the case may be, whether it is settings or P.W.A.
settings, you just click the settings here.
Once you get to this page, you can see here 'Force check-in enterprise object'.
So what you do, you go ahead and click on 'Force check-in enterprise object'.
Once you do that, it's going to take you to this page as well, and you're going to see
the projects that are checked out to you.
How you know that the schedules are checked out to you is that you see the user here,
and you see the name of the person that it's checked out to.
It also shows you the date and the time that it was checked out to you or to whoever it
was checked out to.
Have in mind that you can only force check-in schedules that are checked out to you.
Okay, so what I'm going to do next is to click the schedules that I want to check in.
So I'm going to click this one, or let's just force check-in, both schedules in this case.
So I'm going to click both of them, and click 'Check in'.
So once I click 'Check in', it's going to show me this message.
It will ask you, "Are you sure you want to force check-in these items?"
And so you're going to hit 'Okay'.
Once you hit 'Okay', you will now see that the schedules have been properly checked in.
So in this case you can go back to the P.W.A., you can go back to the projects, and open
the project properly and it wouldn't give you any issues anymore.
And so with that, that is how to force check-in your enterprise schedules in the P.W.A.
I hope this has been helpful to you.
Be sure to check out out other videos and blogs; we have various tips and tricks on
how to navigate through Microsoft Projects, Project server, or the P.W.A. and SharePoint.
We also cover various project management topics.
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