You can use the Microsoft Office Project Server 2003 Enterprise Global Template to enforce standards in your organization that can be applied to all projects and resources that work with Project Server data. Whenever a Microsoft Office Project Professional 2003 user connects to the Project Server database, the Enterprise Global Template is made available to the user and applied to any project checked out from or saved to the Project Server database by that user. Even if the user makes local changes to the settings defined by the Enterprise Global Template, when the user saves the project back to the Project Server database, the settings in the Enterprise Global Template are applied.

Your organization might need to standardize projects at the enterprise level. Standardization provides a common language for all project managers. By using views, tables, calendars, filters, and other related elements contained in the Enterprise Global Template, you can help to ensure effective standardization in your organization.

The Enterprise Global Template is a special project that can only be opened from Project Server 2003. Because the Enterprise Global Template is stored in the Project Server database, only Project Professional users who are assigned the Save Enterprise Global permission by the Project Server administrator can access the Enterprise Global Template directly. These users can work with the Organizer, a feature that provides access to working with fields, filters, views, toolbars, tables, reports, modules, and maps that are included in the Enterprise Global Template, as well as modify the following settings:

• Enterprise Calendars.
• Enterprise Custom Fields.
• Enterprise Outline Codes, including Resource Breakdown Structure (RBS).

Every time a Project Professional user connects to Project Server 2003, the latest version of the Enterprise Global Template is loaded and cached on the local client computer. The Enterprise Global Template is functionally an extension of the local Global Template. Items that are not regulated by the Enterprise Global Template can be modified at the project level by a project manager.

After you install Project Server 2003 and Project Professional, the following items in the Enterprise Global Template are ready for use:

• Standard Enterprise Calendar   The Standard Enterprise Calendar cannot be deleted, is locale-dependent (for example, the U.S. calendar is defined as a 40-hour work week with Monday-Friday being the working days), and is customizable.
• Filters   Two resource filters are defined: Enterprise Resources and Project Team Members.
• Enterprise Gantt Chart.
• Enterprise Entry Table.

The following items are not defined in the Enterprise Global Template:

• Enterprise Custom Fields.
• Currency symbol, which is blank by default.
• Items available in the Organizer, such as forms, groups, maps, modules, reports, tables, toolbars, and views.

 Note   Except for the special case of the currency symbol in the Enterprise Global Template, all Project Professional choices that are available in the Options dialog box (available on the Tools menu) are stored in the registry on the local computer and not in the local Global Template or in the Project Server database.