Project status reports available from Portal?

[Melissa Barnes]

As a smaller organization, is there a way to make Project Status Reports from SPM available to users on the Service Portal?  We are also looking at deploying Employee Center in the near future, but I don't see that either allow you to publish or have a place for interested business partners to see the latest Status Report for a project. 

We have shared with our Business users the idea of creating scheduled reports to send the status to stakeholders who do not hold an SPM license that would allow them to go in directly and view the status.  

-Melissa

[Jon Miller1]

There is a "Project Status Portal" in ServiceNow. It doesn't seem to be widely promoted so I do wonder if it maybe depreciated at some point. But what I do is send a weekly email status report to my project stakeholders that contains a link to that week's status report on the Project Status Portal. But I think that only works if the stakeholders have SPM access i.e. in our case, are within IT.

It may not be super elegant but all I do for folks outside of IT, is to print the status report to a PDF (we're on San Diego so don't have the ability to export to PDF yet), upload to Teams and send that link out to my stakeholders.

It's a nice idea to provide project status report links in the status portal. If that capability was there, I'd definitely explore it. Maybe you have better adoption of the service portal than we do but most of our stakeholders wouldn't think to go there.

One final thought, I believe there is a catalog item type that does allow you to post a link on the portal. You could export a status report, post to Teams (or SharePoint or Slack or wherever) and add the link to it on the portal.

[Melissa Barnes]

Thank you for the suggestion Jon! I went and did some searching on the Project Status Portal and found that it appears to be replaced or at least guided toward user accessing the Project Workspace.  Other solutions proposed for a similar question indicate that a user needs to have the licensing for SPM to be able to view any of these details no matter where they would live on the platform.  I will leave this topic open for now to see if others have some thoughts.  

We are looking to transform our interface over to Employee Center so we would like to be able to curate a section for the EPMO's services on platform.  We were hoping to give our users more of a unified experience rather than having to go to Teams or Sharepoint.  We are currently on Tokyo so the export of a PDF is an option (with some limitations we've uncovered). 

Thanks for your thougths!

-Melissa