Project Server 2010: Operation still processing–don’t shoot the messenger

Decided to make this post as we have been getting quite a few questions about this dialog – Operation still processing. It can occur in various places within Project Web App and in my case I have made it appear in Project Center by creating a new project based on an Enterprise Project Type (called “Large”) that is using a project template which has around 2500 tasks.  In this case the full text says “The Create operation has been queued, but is taking longer than expected to process.  To check the status of the creation queue job, visit the My Queue Jobs page. Once the job has completed, the new Large will be listed in the Project Center. Click OK to close the project and return to Project Center.” This isn’t an error – I wouldn’t even go so far as to say it is a warning – merely an informational dialog that we programmed to appear in cases where whatever you are doing is taking a little while to happen – usually around a minute or so.  It could be that something has gone wrong – more likely it is just taking a while – so have a look in the queue.  Possibly by the time you have read the message the job has completed.  It could be that you are creating a quite large plan from a template – or perhaps there are other jobs in the queue that mean yours is just waiting.  So this shouldn’t be treated as an error – unless when looking in the queue you find a bigger problem – like I did when writing this posting….  Possibly more on that in another posting if a reboot of my abused server doesn’t make my issues go away.

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Project Server 2010: Operation still processing–don’t shoot the messenger