Sure - Project Server is a SharePoint application, it uses SharePoint to
surface data stored within the SQL database.
Project Server is essentially comprised of three elements:
1) The Microsoft Project Professional client
2) The scheduling engine - i.e. PWA with all of the security settings, configurations
and views.
3) The project workspaces.
Now, in most implementations, the workspaces are deployed under the PWA URL:
sites with a couple extra features that allow them to consume data from the
Project Server scheduling engine.
The Issues List is a SharePoint list in a SharePoint site that has specific
links to the Project Server database - namely, that you can click on the
Links button when creating a new issue, and select tasks from the project
schedule to link the issue to - or that PWA will display open issues in the
PWA Risks & Issues page. However, the Issues list shares the same e-mail
alert engine as the rest of the SharePoint elements - and not the Project
Server e-mail configuration.
E-mail alerts in Project Server (PWA > Server Settings) are only tied to
actions taken strictly within the scheduling engine or the PWA main page:
task assignment changes, status reports, task status updates.
- Andrew Lavinsky
