Project Reporter Help: Updating project data

Contents : Administering Project Reporter : Managing data sources and projects
Updating project data

After you load a project for the first time using Project Reporter's administration interface, the project will automatically be reloaded each time the project data changes.

The Project Reporter server scans the loaded projects and data sources every 30 seconds, checking for new, deleted, or updated projects, and takes the following actions:

For projects in .MPP, .MPD, .MDB, .PRX, or .MPX files, if the modification date of the file is later than it was when the project was last loaded, the project is reloaded automatically.
Note: .MPD and .MDB files will not be reloaded if a lock file (with the .ldb suffix) exists in the data source directory, since this indicates that the file is still being modified by another application, such as Microsoft Project.
For projects in databases, a project is reloaded automatically if certain timestamp fields (which vary according to the database format) have been updated since the project was last loaded.
Any new projects are displayed on the Projects page when they are found, but are not loaded automatically, unless the Load new projects automatically option is turned on for the data source.
If a loaded project is deleted from a database or a directory, it is not unloaded automatically, unless the Load new projects automatically option is turned on for the data source.

When an updated project is reloaded, users viewing a report on the project will see a notice that they should reload the report pages to see the latest information.