Schedule API GA Release in Project Operations

Problem Definition: Unlike PSA where the users were not restricted to use the crude operations (Create, Update and Delete) CUD on entities like Project, Project Task, Resource Assignment, Project Team Member and Project Task Dependency, Project Operations (PO) blocks the user to perform these basic operations.

Often these requests are at peak while we do projects with customers, as PO does not go OOB for all the needs and requirements coming from customers. Of lately a huge demand was seen for this.

Solution:

Microsoft has come up with custom API’s know as Schedule API in CDS to enable these CUD operations. The reason why these had to come via Schedule API was that the WBS was managed by P4W (Project for the Web) which is a different team from the PO Team. To do a seamless communication between PO and P4W Schedule API was born.

The following entity with its logical names were enabled via Schedule API

Entity Name	Entity Logical Name
Project	msdyn_project
Project Task	msdyn_projecttask
Project Task Dependency	msdyn_projecttaskdependency
Resource Assignment	msdyn_resourceassignment
Project Bucket	msdyn_projectbucket
Project Team Member	msdyn_projectteam

See the table below for all the operations Microsoft currently enabled support: 

Just a small note:

Note, Microsoft don’t update Resource Assignments, instead they delete the existing one and create a new one. So, there is no support for Update Resource Assignment. Same thing applies to Task Dependency. 

These APIs can be called with entity objects that including custom fields.  

The Id property is optional, if you provide one, Microsoft will try to use it. Microsoft will throw an exception if they cannot use the id you provide. If you don’t provide one, Microsoft will generate one.

Scheduling API would be available in the following release of ProjectOperations 4.9.0.188.