Creating a Project Workspace Template is easy. In the past I have been using STSADM commands to manage this. The issue is often the template is associated with a project schedule and thus fails to become a template. I just recently I found a few easy steps.
- From Project Professional
- Create a project called ‘Project Workspace Template”
- Save Project
- Publish Project which creates a project workspace called “Project Workspace Template”
- From PWA
- Delete the “Project Workspace Template” project but do not delete the associate project workspace. At this point, the association of the project workspace is freed and can be used as a template.
- From “Project Workspace Template” Site
- Customize the site as needed to meet your requirements
- Load all the standard documents and templates in the Project Document Library
- From Site Setting as site as a Template
- Under the “Look and Feel” section; “Save the Site as a Template”
- Once it is saved, it will appear in the selection of the EPT.
- From PWA / Server Settings / Enterprise Project Types
- Select the EPT to update
- Under the Project Site Template, select the newly created template
Reid McTaggart
You could replace steps 1 and 2 with:
Site Actions > New Site > Microsoft Project Site
Fill in a Title and a URL name and click Create
Doug Welsby
Agree with Reid. Steps 1 and 2 will cause issues in the future as this template has already been associated with a project. Microsoft specifically recommends against using a site for creation of a template if this site has already been associated with a project.
Michael Hunt
If you are creating a template from scratch you can just create a new site.
If; however, you are “bound” by the business unit managing Project Server, you can create a project on the server, create the workspace, customize the workspace for your business unit, save it as a template and delete the attached project schedule. This way you do not have to create everything from scratch.
“Steps 1 and 2” will not cause any issues in the future because the project it was associated with has been deleted from the server. The link is permanently broken. In fact, you can create a workspace from the template, create a project schedule with the same name as the original, link them together, and both the new workspace and the template still work fine.
Richard Collens
I’d like to know how I can do two things;
1. Create a link in the Project Site Template for the Project Site “Home” that will dynamically change when used for an active projects
2. Create a link to a document template in the Project Site Template (rather than embedding the actual document)
Any help you could provide would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
Richard
kumari
I created a Project and saved the project site as template and associated that with an EPT say EPT1. Now created a new project of type EPT1 then when I click on Project site, its showing message ‘There is no site configured for this project. ‘. Please help me to resolve this. Thank you!!!