Cursor kepps on vibrating after baseline

G

Girija

Hello,

I am using MSP 2003. When I baselined the project (4 projects inserted in a
Master Project) the cursor kept on rotating / vibrating. Till I exit the
project. Can anyone tell me why does it happen so ?

Thanks

Girija
 
M

Marc Soester [MVP]

Girija,

what exactly do you mean with "cursor keeps on vibrating"?
are you able to use the Master project after you inserted the Projects and
baselined it ?
Thanks
 
G

Girija

Hello Marc,

Sorry I couldnt reply instantly. I hope you have observed whenever you click
on some buttons/ options, the cursor indicaties the click by cursor
revolving, I mean cursor hour glass revolving.

Similarly whenever I open Baselined Master projects the cursor behaves the
similar way. But it doesnt behave this way, if its a single baselined
project. So I was wondering since its a Master project and many other
projects are inserted and due to predecessors which are linked bewteen
projects, does it behave like this!

Thanks

Girija
 
M

Marc Soester [MVP]

Hi Girija,

the only reason I can come up with is that the Master project recalcualtes
all other proejcts as well. You may want to switch off the auto calc, which
you can switch of under the Options dialog window.
Let me know if the cursor still keeps virbating after wards.
thanks
--
Marc Soester [MVP]
State Manager: EPM
http://marcsoester.blogspot.com
 
G

Girija

Hi Marc,

Perfect you are right. I hope it doesnt impact any calulation.

Thanks

Girija
 
G

Girija

Hi Marc,

You are right. Hope that doesnt impact any other calculation.

Thanks

Girija
 
G

Girija

Hi Marc,

Marc I would like to know what all functions does the Calculate perform?

Thanks

Girija
 
M

Marc Soester [MVP]

Hi girija,

now that we know that the calcualtion "locks" the cursor, we have to find
out why it does so. By switching off the calcluation, you will still need to
calculate eventually. By pressing the F9 key, the project should
re-calculate. What we need to find out what if you have any dependencies
between your projects that would give us the "circular relationship" Gary was
refering to.

You will need to go through your project plan and check what dependencies
are between your projects ( back and forward / predecessors and successors)
and see if there is a dependency that doesnt make sense. Visit your Master
project and check out your dependencies between the tasks. eventually you
should find the wrong dependency and once you deleted or changed this
dependency you should be able to switch on the autocalc again and not
experience the vibrating cursor.

Let me know how you go.
Thanks


As
--
Marc Soester [MVP]
State Manager: EPM
http://marcsoester.blogspot.com
 
G

Girija

Hi Marc,

But if there is a circular relationship, while linking itself it does
display a Pop Up mentioning that its a cirular link. How come this shows,
after baselining and not before baselining?

Thanks

Girija
 
G

Girija

Hello Marc,

You are right. I could overcome the problem by your suggestion of switching
off the autocalc. So I guessed that with autocalc ON system keeps on
calculating so the cursor was vibrating and might be a bug. But by doing
autocalc OFF , we have to use manual calcu whenever updations happen. Thats
fine with us.

Next when you mentioned about "circular relationship" I was slightly
hesitatant. So I had to ask previous question ( But if there is a circular
relationship, while linking itself it does display a Pop Up mentioning that
its a cirular link. How come this shows, after baselining and not before
baselining?) to confirm that we havent gone wrong in relationship linking.

So I think now its clear.

Thanks
Girija
 
M

Mike Mahoney

Hello Marc,

You are right. I could overcome the problem by your suggestion of switching
off the autocalc. So I guessed that with autocalc ON system keeps on
calculating so the cursor was vibrating and might be a bug. But by doing
autocalc OFF , we have to use manual calcu whenever updations happen. Thats
fine with us.

Next when you mentioned about "circular relationship" I was slightly
hesitatant. So I had to ask previous question ( But if there is a circular
relationship, while linking itself it does display a Pop Up mentioning that
its a cirular link. How come this shows, after baselining and not before
baselining?) to confirm that we havent gone wrong in relationship linking.

So I think now its clear.

Thanks
Girija







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Girija

Have you applied all service packs? If not do so (at least SP1)

regards

Mike
 
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Mike Mahoney

Girija:

The system ***DOES NOT*** detect circular relationships between project
plans, it simply behaves badly. It will, however, detect most circular
relationships within a single plan and warn you. The two situations are not
equal.

--

Gary L. Chefetz, MVP
MSProjectExperts
For Project Server Consulting:http://www.msprojectexperts.com
For Project Server FAQS:http://www.projectserverexperts.com







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If I recall correctly (it may have been 2002! - a long time ago )
there was a bug which caused project to enter a calculation loop
(vibrating!). It was a configuration issue not a network logic
problem. Hence the patch suggestion.

regards

Mike
 

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