Last year I already wrote about how one can manage the Project Server Enterprise Custom Fields via the Managed Client Object Modell. We could transfer the code samples of that post from C# to PowerShell, but because of the limitations of the Managed Client Object Modell I use the PSI interface instead in this case. What are those limitations? Not all of the properties available in PSI are exposed by the Client OM, see for example the MD_PROP_SUMM_GRAPHICAL_INDICATOR field, that we can use to set the rules of graphical indicators defined for the fields. I’ll show you an example for getting and setting the indicator rules in a later post, in the current one I only show you the technique we can use to create the Enterprise Custom Fields via PSI.
One can find an existing description with code sample in Step 3 and 4 of this post, that achieves the same goal, however, I don’t like that approach for several reasons, for example, because of we have to generate the proxy assembly based on the WSDL in the code itself. Instead of that I find the following code much more simple:
[System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("Microsoft.Office.Project.Server.Library")
$pwaUrl = "http://YourProjectServer/pwa"
# create shortcuts
# http://stackoverflow.com/a/1049010
$PSDataType = [Microsoft.Office.Project.Server.Library.PSDataType]
$Entities = [Microsoft.Office.Project.Server.Library.EntityCollection]::Entities
$svcPSProxy = New-WebServiceProxy -Namespace PSIProxy -Uri ($pwaUrl + "/_vti_bin/psi/CustomFields.asmx?wsdl") -UseDefaultCredential
$customFieldDataSet = New-Object PSIProxy.CustomFieldDataSet
$customFieldRow = $customFieldDataSet.CustomFields.NewCustomFieldsRow()
$customFieldRow.MD_PROP_UID = [Guid]::NewGuid()
$customFieldRow.MD_PROP_NAME = "Custom Project Field"
$customFieldRow.MD_PROP_TYPE_ENUM = $PSDataType::STRING
$customFieldRow.MD_ENT_TYPE_UID = $Entities.ProjectEntity.UniqueId
$customFieldRow.MD_PROP_IS_REQUIRED = $false
$customFieldRow.MD_PROP_IS_LEAF_NODE_ONLY = $false
$customFieldRow.MD_PROP_DESCRIPTION = "Test Field Desc."
$customFieldRow.SetMD_LOOKUP_TABLE_UIDNull()
$customFieldRow.SetMD_PROP_DEFAULT_VALUENull()
$customFieldDataSet.CustomFields.AddCustomFieldsRow($customFieldRow)
$svcPSProxy.CreateCustomFields($customFieldDataSet, $false, $true)
If you have casting issues when using the Namespace parameter of the New-WebServiceProxy cmdlet, you should read this post.
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