You are the Microsoft Project Server Administrator and you are working with Jane, a Project Manager in your company. Jane has to create views for the resource managers and executives to analyze resource availability and commitments. How will she accomplish the task?
A.
Jane will configure the Resource Center view to accomplish the task.
B.
Jane will configure the Resource Plan view to accomplish the task.
C.
Jane will configure the Project Center view to accomplish the task.
D.
Jane will configure the Project view to accomplish the task.
Explanation:
Jane will configure the Resource Center view to accomplish the task.A Resource Center view is used to provide information about all resources of a company. The Resource Center provides views for the resource managers and executives to analyze resource availability and commitments. The enterprise resource custom fields are used to filter, group, and sort views in the Resource Center by location, department, skills, or other information that are defined as enterprise resource custom fields.
Answer option B is incorrect. A Resource Plan view is used to display resource utilization information when the user displays a Resource Plan. It displays detailed information, including enterprise resource and task custom fields.
Answer option D is incorrect. A Project view is used to display task, assignment, or resource information specific to a single project. Detailed information about the project tasks, including enterprise task custom fields is displayed. A user can view, group, filter, and sort information in a Project view based on the information defined in the enterprise task custom fields. Answer option C is incorrect. A Project Center view is used to provide summary-level information about projects in a portfolio. The enterprise project custom fields can be used to organize and manipulate data through the custom filters, groups and sorts, which are part of the Project Center view definitions. It also includes useful indicators for project related information.
What is a filter?
A filter in Project Server 2010 is used to specify the task or resource information the should be displayed or highlighted in a view. There are three types of filters in Project Server 2010, which are as follows:
1.Predefined filters
2.Auto filters
3.Custom filters
What are the different types of filters in Project Server 2010? In Project Server 2010, there are three ways to filter the tasks or resources in a project.
These are as follows:
1.Predefined filters: The predefined filters are dispatched with the Project. These are used to filter specific tasks or resources, such as incomplete tasks, or overallocated resources. 2.Custom filters: The custom filters are the filters that the users design for their own project needs.
3.AutoFilters: The auto filters are used to filter the items in a column quickly. When these filters are turned on, they appear as arrows at the top of each column in a sheet view.