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Just stumbled upon this question today:

"Is there a way to know that MPP published to the project server is not created using a template available on the server?"

Basically this comes from the point that how to find out compliance of the project plans to the standard templates.

I am not aware how it can be done?

bad_coder
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Actually there is no way to identify by one field that this project was created using that template.

You may assume that by Enterprise Project Type, but again there is a way to change EPT for existing project.

The only way I know is to compare a template and a project by tasks, by structure, etc. it works like finger print recognition: you select several points which the most probably tell that the project was created from the template.

The worst case I can imagine: a user creates a project by a template and after that removes everything from the project. Formally the project was created by the template but in real there is nothing from the template left in the project.

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  • Ok, I think, I can do a comparison (visual) between two projects to see the similarity of structure, but then that is manual, right? – Kangkan Sep 08 '12 at 13:40
  • you can automate that using macros or add-in, but there should be a known pattern – melan Sep 08 '12 at 19:48