Dec Update - MS Project 2007 questions / steps

D

Donna

Hi -

Our IT department updated our development environment to allow us to test
the Dec Cum update for Server & Project.

We made a copy of our existing production evironment which was at the August
update to populate the evironment with.

I am having trouble getting master projects that have inserted projects to
publish with the new updates. They just don't process and we get no errors
or even see the job in the queue.
the other odd thing is that we are seeing if with specific milestones. We
are testing for a SQL report and we need to flip some of the milestones to no
longer be milestones. We adding a milestone column to the global template --
we flip them from Yes to NO & Save. But then when we reopen - all are back
to YES??

Is there another step that we need to take to get existing projects to work
correctly with the new patch levels?

I have created new projects with the updates -- behavior works as expected.

Any help is appreciated
Donna
 
S

Sean Hanson

Verify in Dev that in PWA Server Settings - Additional Settings - Enterprise
Settings you Allow master projects, likely you do and this is not the
problem, but check. Otherwise, sounds like an issue referencing the
references. Publish all the individual schedules first then try publishing
the master and see if the updates then work.

Flipping milestones to not be milestones that have zero duration likely will
not provide the results you want, pick up one of the Enterprise Flag fields
and utilize is as Key Milestones and set this flag and use in your reporting,
gives more control.
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Sean Hanson

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G

Gary L. Chefetz

Donna:

If I read your question correctly, it sounds like you are changing the
milestone flags in a template that the projects were created from, expecting
the changes in the template to trickle down to the projects that were
started from the template. Project simply doesn't work this way. In order to
edit task values in any project, you must perform this action within the
project itself. There is no way to edit tasks across multiple projects from
one place. Your alternative is to develop a macro to do this for you.

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D

Donna

Hi Gary -

I am making the changes in the project itself.
We do use templates as starting places only.
 
D

Donna

Gary -

I am only trying to change some milestones at the master project itself -
not any of the subprojects.
Donna
 

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