Release 14.2 Updates › Project Management

Project Management

This section provides Project Management updates for CA Clarity PPM Release 14.2.

Microsoft Project 2013 Service Pack 1

Microsoft Project 2013 Service Pack 1 is supported for integration with the new CA Clarity PPM Release 14.2 MSP Interface option. The CA Clarity PPM Legacy MSP Interface option does not support the Microsoft Project Service Pack 1.

Upgrade Action: Alert your project managers to this incompatibility if they plan to use the Legacy Interface option.

Auto-Numbering and Project IDs

If auto-numbering is defined on the project object, the auto-numbering is enforced when you create and save a project to CA Clarity PPM. The project ID field will be read-only in Microsoft Project.

Upgrade Action: None

Assignment Max Percent Load is Respected for Fixed Unit Tasks

A flag has been added under Project Management Administration called “MSP Assignment Units Mapping with Clarity Assignment Max % Load" to allow customers to turn on or off the mapping of Max % Load when opening/exporting the project from Microsoft Project.

• If the flag is checked, the MSP unit is mapped based on the Max % Load value in CA Clarity PPM.
• If the flag is unchecked, the MSP unit is mapped based on the staff allocation rate base on the date that you opened the project in Microsoft Project.

When saving or importing to CA Clarity PPM, the MSP assignment units value is always written to Max % Load, regardless of the flag setting under Project Management Administration.

Upgrade Action: Set this flag based on your requirement for the Max % Load information when opening the project in Microsoft Project.

New UI for Mapping CA Clarity PPM Attributes to Microsoft Project Fields

You can create or update the field mapping for CA Clarity PPM custom attributes and Microsoft Project fields to synchronize the values when importing and exporting data. Only the custom attributes of the Project, Resource, Task, Assignment, and Team objects can be mapped. The custom attributes must be of following data types:

• Date
• Number
• String
• Boolean

Note: For more information about mapping fields, see the Project Management Guide.

Upgrade Action: None