Copying and Pasting of tasks in MS Project 2002

[lordbritishix]

Hi all!

Our organization is having lots of trouble copying and pasting tasks on a
published workplan. It seemed that whenever an entire row is copied and
pasted to another section of the published project plan, it triggers a
circular dependency error which later on leads to the corruption of the
workplan Note that the workplan did not contain any dependencies and that
this does not happen always (it seemed like a bug of some sort). Any ideas?!

Thanks in advance!

 

[Mike Glen]

Hi lordbritishix ,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup

A shot in the dark - Tolls/Options.../Schedule and uncheck "Autolink
inserted or moved tasks".

FAQs, companion products and other useful Project information can be seen at
this web address: <http://www.mvps.org/project/>

Hope this helps - please let us know how you get on )

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP

 

[lordbritishix]

Hi Mike!

Thanks for the immediate reply. I have yet to try this though before I
inform our users. Anyway, If its not too much of a hassle, I would just like
to inquire if this issue that we are currently encountering is a bug - and
moreover, what really happens when I cut (with the entire row selected) and
paste a task that does not have dependencies on it.

Thanks so much!

 

[Mike Glen]

The autolink puts in dependencies. IMO it should always be de-selected.


Mike Glen
Project MVP

 

[Greg Horodeck]

Be careful when using copy/past of a full row. It copies more than just the
cells in view, it copies all attributes of the task, including assignments,
work, actual work, constraints, etc.

We advise against this in our implementation and suggest that they highlight
and copy/paste cells and not full rows.

Don't know why you are getting the circular reference other than what Mike
is suggesting.


Greg

 

[lordbritishix]

Thanks all! That should shed some light to this mystery