Microsoft Project Server: Is there a way to know that MPP published to the server is not created using a template available?

Question

Just stumbled upon this question today: "Is there a way to know that MPP published to the project server is not created using a template available on the server?"

Basically this comes from the point that how to find out compliance of the project plans to the standard templates.

Can it be done? I am not aware of. Can somebody help me?

Answer 1

Actually there is no way to identify by one field that this project was created using that template.

You may assume that by Enterprise Project Type, but again there is a way to change EPT for existing project.

The only way I know is to compare a template and a project by tasks, by structure, etc. it works like finger print recognition: you select several points which the most probably tell that the project was created from the template.

The worst case I can imagine: a user creates a project by a template and after that removes everything from the project. Formally the project was created by the template but in real there is nothing from the template left in the project.