EPM Live Project Publisher User Guide

Note: In the scenario above, if a project’s ‘Department’ field is changed in the Microsoft SharePointworkspace, that change will be reflected in the Microsoft Project schedule upon selecting ‘Update Progress’ inthe respective Microsoft Project schedule.6.5.3 Custom Microsoft Project Schedule Fields6.5.3.1 How it worksThe Project Publisher Custom Fields list includes many of the out-of-box Microsoft Project fields for purposes ofmapping and publishing such project fields to a Microsoft SharePoint site. However, if there is an out-of-boxMicrosoft Project field that is not included in the default Project Publisher Custom Fields list, you can create acustom Microsoft Project field and map it to an out-of-box Microsoft Project field, at which point you can thenpublish that data to your Task Center/Project Center list in SharePoint. Below are instructions.Note: The following Microsoft Project screenshots are of Microsoft Project 2010. However, for the most partthe steps are primarily the same for both Microsoft Project 2007 and Microsoft Project 2010.1. Launch Microsoft Project and open the project schedule for which you want to create and mapproject fields.2. Right-click any column in the project schedule and select Insert Column. Select a Field Name notcurrently being used that matches your data type (i.e., Number, Text, etc.). In the followingexample, the Number20 field has been selected for purposes of publishing number values fromthe project schedule to the associated SharePoint site.39