SharePoint - Project Server - Activities Log or Audit trail?

I'm trying to find a way to store the updates made to the projects. If someone closes a project, I need to know who did it and when. Same thing with modifications and updates.

I found software to keep track of it (Fluent Pro). Is there a way to do it without the software? In example, exporting the data to Excel to then be analyzed by a macro.

Thanks in advance!

Melisa,

Hello I am not that familiar with sharepoint but with many other MS office applications there is usually a way to track changes and modifiers. I did a quick search for information about sharepoint and found that if you are the manager for a project or have rights to manage teh list or library you can set up an RSS to notify you and other via email when changes are made to your project.  here is a http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint-server-help/track-important-changes-with-alerts-and-rss-HA010237519.aspx support link for you. 

I hope you find what you are looking for 

Don 
 

You can turn auditing several different ways, if you have SharePoint Server in my opinion I would audit at the document level.  This would require using content types and place auditing on them.  This will give you the freedom to place different auditing on different types of documents.  You set auditing when you create the content type. 

This is done from Site Actions... Site Settings... Under Galleries click Site Content Types...

Once here click create...

Name your content type

Set your content types parent, in this clase in the "select parent content type from" drop down click "document content types"

In the parent content type box for this example select document, select a group if you want... click OK

If you have now you should see a link under settings which are for Information Management Policy settings... click this link.

Now you will see a check box for Auditing... select this and the page will reload with you auditing settings.  You would make use of this by now using the content type in a doc lib or which ever type you want.

Another way of setting auditing is to set it at a site collection.

You need to be on the root of your site collection to be able to do this, click on Site Actions... Site settings...

Under Site COllection Administration click Site COllection Audit settings. This will set auditing for the entire site collection.

Good luck,

Thanks, Donald. This doesn't work as it is for Microsoft Office and it is Microsoft Project Server what is driving me crazy.

Thanks, Somesh, I'm familiar with Sharepoint Server document auditing. The issue here is that for Project Server these options are not available.

As mentioned before, there is software that does what we need for audit control, what I'm trying to implement is a way that is customizable and takes advantage of the programmability provided by Project Server, that as far as I have seen is not much.

This is what the software I found does
"Very often organizations that use Microsoft Project Server 2010 ask themselves a question - who and when made a change in configuration or in project. And Project Server 2010 cannot answer this question with OOB functionality. FluentPro developed a small audit solution that consist of set of event handlers that capture activities in Project Server and writes log into SharePoint list in PWA. Software is FREE and distributed as is. Please use it on your own risk. "

That is what I need to do from code or other Project Server feature I still can't find.

Thanks!