MSP2002Std - Corrupt mpp's? or just a task linking prob?

[Scott Borth]

I'm having a problem with task linking. i have an issue
where two tasks are linked (FS with no lag time). The
second task does not get updated when the first task
changes.
The second task has the task constraint "ASAP". No
resources are assigned and all %complete is zero. The
calculation setting for the mpp is "automatic".
In one instance of removing the link (in the effort of re-
linking them), the start date of the first task moved to
1/1/1984, even though the project start date is 1/1/2003.
This is part of a large mpp, but the tasks i am referring
to have no other predecessors/successors. They are part
of a larger summary task, though, which has no
predecessors/successors.
Other subtasks are not affected. In fact, even the
summary task bar does not show the effect of the other two
tasks (it's not stretched out from 1984 to 2003). It just
resides over the unaffected subtasks - hence my possible
conclusion of a corrupted mpp file.
Are there repair possibilities for mpp files or is there
another avenue of debugging that i'm missing?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Scott

 

[Jack D.]

I'm having a problem with task linking. i have an issue
where two tasks are linked (FS with no lag time). The
second task does not get updated when the first task
changes.
The second task has the task constraint "ASAP". No
resources are assigned and all %complete is zero. The
calculation setting for the mpp is "automatic".
In one instance of removing the link (in the effort of re-
linking them), the start date of the first task moved to
1/1/1984, even though the project start date is 1/1/2003.
This is part of a large mpp, but the tasks i am referring
to have no other predecessors/successors. They are part
of a larger summary task, though, which has no
predecessors/successors.
Other subtasks are not affected. In fact, even the
summary task bar does not show the effect of the other two
tasks (it's not stretched out from 1984 to 2003). It just
resides over the unaffected subtasks - hence my possible
conclusion of a corrupted mpp file.
Are there repair possibilities for mpp files or is there
another avenue of debugging that i'm missing?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Scott

Sounds like you have all the bases covered except perhaps there is an actual
start entered for that task? Even if %complete is 0 an actual start will
anchor a task in place.
I'd try deleting the task and recreating it.


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[Scott]

thanks for the response...

nope. no set start or finish dates for the second task.
the constraint of ASAP would negate this as well. i'll
try deleting and recreating the task again.
unfortunately, though, it would be nice to figure out what
the actual cause is.

thanks. Scott