Microsoft® Office Project 2007 All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies®

Chapter 4. Project Server and the Team Member

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✓	Working with the Project Web Access home page
✓	Working with your tasks
✓	Working with your timesheet
✓	Integrating Outlook and Project Web Access
✓	Reporting status

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The way in which you use Project Server and Project Web Access depends on your role in the project. Chapters 2 and 3 of this minibook describe how the Project Server administrator and the project and resource manager use Project Server and Project Web Access, respectively. This chapter describes how the team member uses Project Web Access to work with project tasks, submitting work information on either tasks or timesheets and report status. You also read about how you can integrate Outlook 2007 and Project Web Access to exchange project information between these programs.

Understanding the Project Web Access Home Page

To log on to Project Server by using Project Web Access, you need the URL for the Web database, and your project manager or the Project Server administrator can give you the URL. In addition, if your organization uses Forms authentication, you need the username and password that the Project Server administrator set up for you.

If your organization uses Forms authentication, you see a page you use to log on to Project Web Access after you type the URL. If your organization set up Project Server to use Windows user account logons, the logon page doesn’t appear; instead, your Project Web Access home page appears immediately. ...