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Project Server 2016 - Save engagements did not succeed

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Issue - Project Managers get below error, while saving Project Plan in Project Professional 2016. It affects users who are using Project Professional with Project Server 2016. Project Publish process should complete just fine.

Please note that this issue is noticed after upgrading Project Server to Project Server 2016.

Errors -  

Save Engagements did not succeed. Please make sure you are online and try again.  first-error

or

An unexpected error occurred during command execution. 

Try the following:

  • Verify that all argument names and values are correct and are of the correct type. 
  • You may have run out of memory. To free up available memory, close programs, projects, or windows that you aren't using.

second-error

Potential cause -  Project Server 2013 doesn't support Engagement feature as it was introduced in Project Server 2016.

Resolution -  Modify global permission in existing groups (such as Project Managers) and allow 'View Resource Plan" permission. Or create a new group allow "View Resource Plan" permission and add all the affected users into the newly created group.

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Comments

  • Anonymous
    May 22, 2017
    Good and very useful info,
  • Anonymous
    May 22, 2017
    Very Useful article. Should be part of the documentation
    • Anonymous
      August 12, 2017
      Thank you.
  • Anonymous
    June 13, 2017
    Awesome find Jignesh thanks for the info this was causing problems for one of my customers.
    • Anonymous
      August 12, 2017
      I am glad that it helped you!
  • Anonymous
    October 04, 2017
    Thanks for sharing. Resolved my issue
  • Anonymous
    November 27, 2018
    Awesome, this fixed our issue.Thanks so much!
    • Anonymous
      November 27, 2018
      I'm so glad you found this helpful!