Assignment Corruption - follow-up

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anovak

I had a recent post concerning this situation where you add a resource
to a task, the resource submits actual work against that task, then
when you add another resource to the task, you get a corrupted
assignment which apparently can be fixed by running a query to
identify the subject assignments, and then setting the respective
"Publish" flags to "No", republishing, then changing the values again
to "Yes" and republishing again. Whew!

OK..it appears that through all this several of the team members have
lost data they had input for a month. Does this mean that anything
they have entered that has not been submitted and accepted will be
overridden by the blank values in the Project (pre-task acceptance)?

Sounds to me like its a no-win deal. They can't get to the My Tasks
page and the only way to fix it results in blowing away the data
they've entered.

Any best practices that should be followed here other than making darn
sure that they submit at least each week (probably safer to submit
each day) and ensure that the PM has accepted the changes? I'd say
that business rule for auto accepting would come in handy here.

Any and all comments, suggestions, warnings, etc. would be
appreciated.

Is there a HotFix out there for this or any known schedule for SP2
that might include this fix?

Best,
Andy Novak
UNT
 
A

anovak

Hi,

I think the April 08 hotfix solves this problem.

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Rod Gill
Microsoft MVP for Project

Author of the only book on Project VBA, see:http://www.projectvbabook.com
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Let's say even if the corruption issue was fixed, if a schedule is
republished after team members enter time for the week but before they
submit time and its accepted by the PM, does the republishing blow
away the time they've just entered?

Anyone have the link to that April 08 hotfix?

Thanks,
Andy
 
A

anovak

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/950816

Only way I know to repair the assignment corruption is to delete the
assignment then re-create. If you copy details to another task before
deleting you can paste details back in Usage View.

--

Rod Gill
Microsoft MVP for Project

Author of the only book on Project VBA, see:http://www.projectvbabook.com
Click to expand...

Let me make sure I'm being clear. Regardless of the corruption
problem - assuming that does not exist...

Under normal circumstances, if you republish a project plan after
resource enter and save their progress in My Tasks but before their
progress is submitted to the manager and the updates are accepted,
does the republishing overlay the information in their My Tasks? The
reason I ask this is to understand if the disappearing data from My
Task (which we've experienced) is only a result of the corruption fix
or if this is an on-going issue. If so, we would have to be very
careful about the timing of the auto-republish job we're scheduling -
that it would only, say on Monday's at noon which represents a
deadline for getting your progress in and accepted.
 

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