Cannot add enterprise custom field to custom view

[Shane]

Hello All...

Any happy new year to everyone....

I have a small issue that I would like to get an answer to...

We have a entered several enterprise custom fields in our instance and added
these fields to some custom views we have created.

We have one small problem where we are unable to add a couple of enterprise
custom fields (with formulae) to one of our custom views.

The makup of the fields is as follows

Entity: Resource
Type: Flag

The make-up of the custom view is as follows

View Type: Resource Center

The field has been added to the Resource Sheet View and the plan has been
recalculated and republished several times but the fields still do not appear
as available to add to the view.

We are using PS 2007 and have it patched up to and including the December
update.

Cheers
Shane

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Shane --

I can confirm the behavior you are seeing. I tested this first by creating
a custom enterprise resource Flag field from which I select a Yes or No
value manually. I found that I can add this custom field to the Resource
Center view and the field also correctly displays the field in the Resource
Center view.

Then I created another custom enterprise resource Flag field containing a
formula. The field DOES NOT appear on the list of available fields for the
Resource Center page. I am not sure of the reason for this, whether a bug
or by design. I suspect it is by design, but dont' know why.

I don't see any way to work around this limitation. Sorry I can't be more
help.

 

[Shane]

Dale,

Thanks so much for confirming. I know I';m not loosing my marbles now...

I'll take it to Micrso soft to see if its by design or if its a bug and post
the answer here.

Thanks again..

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Shane --

Please follow up and let us know what you learn. Thanks in advance!

 

[L8rdays]

Hi Shane / Dale,

I experienced a similar issue, just different area and it was resolved with
this hotfix.

Here is the hotfix we pushed.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/960313

Hopefully this will fix your issue too.