Publishing Portfolios

When publishing a portfolio of items, no project is created or updated on the basis of this portfolio.

Projects are created and updated only on the basis of published items. Nevertheless, the publishing of a portfolio of items can serve as a short-hand method for publishing many items simultaneously.

Note:

Portfolios of portfolios cannot be published.

There are several scenarios:

• If none of the items has been previously published, the user can specify a single project management system server as the destination for the items.
• If all items have been previously published, all projects will be updated with any new information.
• If only some items have been previously published, the user can specify a single project management system server as the destination for the items that were not yet published. All previously published items will be updated with any new information.

Note:

If a portfolio contains items that were not yet published which should be mapped to different servers, the user should publish them individually, and not publish the entire portfolio. As an efficiency measure, the administrator should create query-based portfolios to collect items with different destinations and then publish each portfolio to a different project management system server.

The following sections describe how to publish PPM information to P6.