Project Workspaces Web Part

In Microsoft Office Project 2007, each project can have a workspace that acts as a portal to all project-related documents and other project support information. One way to access these workspaces is to go to Project Center in Microsoft Office Project Web Access, select the project, and then go to the related workspace.

Using the Project Workspaces Web Part, you can create a page containing a table of links to all your project workspaces. This page can include the project workspaces of which you are a member, or the project workspaces you own. This page can easily be accessed from the Project Web Access Home page.

After you have created a page using the Project Workspaces Web Part:

• You can quickly open your workspaces for one or more projects. The workspace name is hyperlinked to the project workspace's Web address. You can click to go to the project workspace, which opens in a new window.

• You do not have to download the Project Web Access ActiveX control to get to project workspaces as you do when you are accessing them through Project Center. However, because the Project Workspaces Web Part does not use the ActiveX control, you cannot filter on fields on the Project Workspaces Web Part Page. By default, the table is sorted by Project Name.

• You can sort on any column in the table by clicking the heading. Columns include Project Name, Date Created, and Owner.

• You can review a list of all your project workspaces—either for projects of which you're a member or for project workspaces you own. Project Workspaces is a read-only Web Part. You cannot edit or add to the list of workspaces in the table. Projects that do not have a workspace are not displayed in this list.

Custom properties of the Project Workspaces Web Part

The following table describes unique properties for the Project Workspaces Web Part, which you can view or change after you have added the Web Part to a page. On the Edit menu of the Project Workspaces Web Part, click Modify Shared Web Part. Unless otherwise noted, these properties are available in the Project Web Access section.

Property	Description
Items Per Page	Enter the maximum number of project workspace links you want to show on a single page. The default is 100.
Project Web Access URL	If this Web Part will be used outside the context of Project Web Access, enter the Web address for the Project Server that contains the data for this Web Part.

Common properties of Web Parts

All Web Parts share a common set of properties that control their appearance, layout, and advanced characteristics.

Note: The common Web Part properties that you see in the tool pane may be different from what is documented in this section for several reasons:

• To see the Advanced section in the tool pane, you must have appropriate permission.

• For a specific Web Part, a Web Part developer may have chosen not to display one or more of these common properties or may have chosen to create and display additional properties that are not listed below in the Appearance, Layout, and Advanced sections of the tool pane.

• Some permission and property settings may disable or hide Web Part properties.

Appearance

Property	Description
Title	Specifies the title of the Web Part that appears in the Web Part title bar.
Height	Specifies the height of the Web Part.
Width	Specifies the width of the Web Part.
Chrome State	Specifies whether the entire Web Part appears on the page when a user opens the Web Part Page. By default, the chrome state is set to Normal and the entire Web Part appears. Only the title bar appears when the state is set to Minimized.
Chrome Type	Specifies whether the title bar and border of the Web Part frame are displayed.

Layout

Property	Description
Hidden	Specifies whether the Web Part is visible when a user opens the Web Part Page. If the check box is cleared, the Web Part is visible only when you are designing the page and has the suffix (Hidden) appended to the title. You can hide a Web Part if you want to use it to provide data to another Web Part through a Web Part connection, but you don't want to display the Web Part.
Direction	Specifies the direction of the text in the Web Part content. For example, Arabic is a right-to-left language; English and most other European languages are left-to-right languages.
Zone	Specifies the zone on the Web Part Page where the Web Part is located. Note: Zones on the Web Part Page are not listed in the list box when you do not have permission to modify the zone.
Zone Index	Specifies the position of the Web Part in a zone when the zone contains more than one Web Part. To specify the order, type a positive integer in the text box. If the Web Parts in the zone are ordered from top to bottom, a value of 1 means that the Web Part appears at the top of the zone. If the Web Parts in the zone are ordered from left to right, a value of 1 means that the Web Part appears on the left of the zone. For example, when you add a Web Part to an empty zone that is ordered from top to bottom, the Zone Index is 1. When you add a second Web Part to the bottom of the zone, its Zone Index is 2. To move the second Web Part to the top of the zone, type 1, and then type 2 for the first Web Part. Note: Each Web Part in the zone must have a unique Zone Index value. Therefore, changing the Zone Index value for the current Web Part can also change the Zone Index value for other Web Parts in the zone.

Advanced

Property	Description
Allow Minimize	Specifies whether the Web Part can be minimized.
Allow Close	Specifies whether the Web Part can be removed from the Web Part Page.
Allow Hide	Specifies whether the Web Part can be hidden.
Allow Zone Change	Specifies whether the Web Part can be moved to a different zone.
Allow Connections	Specifies whether the Web Part can participate in connections with other Web Parts.
Allow Editing in Personal View	Specifies whether the Web Part properties can be modified in a personal view.
Export Mode	Specifies the level of data that is permitted to be exported for this Web Part.
Title URL	Specifies the URL of a file containing additional information about the Web Part. The file is displayed in a separate browser window when you click the Web Part title.
Description	Specifies the ScreenTip that appears when you rest the mouse pointer on the Web Part title or Web Part icon. The value of this property is used when you search for Web Parts by using the Search command on the Find Web Parts menu of the tool pane in the following Web Part galleries: Site, Virtual Server, and Web Part Page.
Help URL	Specifies the location of a file containing Help information about the Web Part. The Help information is displayed in a separate browser window when you click the Help command on the Web Part menu.
Help Mode	Specifies how a browser will display Help content for a Web Part. Select one of the following: Modal Opens a separate browser window, if the browser has this capability. A user must close the window before returning to the Web page. Modeless Opens a separate browser window, if the browser has this capability. A user does not have to close the window before returning to the Web page. This is the default value. NavigateOpens the Web page in the current browser window. Note: Even though custom Microsoft ASP.NET Web Parts support this property, default Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Help topics open only in a separate browser window.
Catalog Icon Image URL	Specifies the location of a file containing an image to be used as the Web Part icon in the Web Part List. The image size must be 16 by 16 pixels.
Title Icon Image URL	Specifies the location of a file containing an image to be used in the Web Part title bar. The image size must be 16 by 16 pixels.
Import Error Message	Specifies a message that appears if there is a problem importing the Web Part.