Hello friends,
I’m setting up a project management site, and am running into many roadblocks. I’m pretty new with SharePoint, so am hoping some of you experts could look over how I’m going about this, and suggest changes or improvements.
Environment – On-premises SharePoint 2013 SP1 Enterprise.
Requirements –
- Setup Rental Development project management parent site that displays task and calendar rollups of project child sites.
- Approx 25 child sites, each child site will represent one active project.
- Each child site displays a calendar and task list. The calendar and task lists rollup to the parent site.
- Each child site has isolated security. Most child site users will not have access other child sites, or parent site.
- All child calendars display tasks from task list, and also other non-project related events. Parent site calendar is a rollup of all child site tasks and events.
- Would like
What I’ve done –
- Created parent project subsite off of main production sharepoint site. Disabled security trickle down. Created child subsites off of parent project subsite, disabled security trickle down.
- Installed 3rd party Amrein Engineering web part that is able to roll up tasks from subsites.
Issues we’re having –
- Task calendar and ‘normal’ calendar apps do not seem to integrate. There doesn’t seem to be a way to display both tasks and other types of events in the same calendar.
- Amrein task list rollup only displays tasks in a list view, doesn’t have a calendar view. Not able to find a product that can. Would prefer to be able to rollup child project sites without having to use a 3rd party app.
- Unable to rollup child project calendars because child projects are in subsites.
I could meet the reqs if we weren’t forced to use subsites for the child project sites. Is there any way to provide the silo’d security we need without having to use subsites?
How would you build out a thing like this?
Thanks in advance to anyone who can comment,
Stephen Barash
Well, I don’t want to advertise any specific third-party solution here, but there are some available at Microsoft SharePoint Online Store. You might have tried to play with them. It is always good to get along without 3-rd parties, but sometimes they save your time and do bring additional value.
