Please help me.

[owen]

OK this is the second time I've posted this question since I got no reply
before. (Perhaps someone out there is feeling more helpful this time).

My problem is very simple. I need to know how to create a summary task
using the PDS.

The ProjectTasksCreate method seems the thing to use.... But the
documentation says you cannot create one without child tasks (indeed this
produces a PDS error). Trouble is, the documentation does not give any
clue as to what syntax to use for the PDS Request to create a summary task
with child tasks.

I am sure this must've been asked before (pretty simple question, right? how
to create a summary task using PDS). But I have spent hours searching the
web, newsgroups, SDK documentation..... and found NOTHING.

Please, somebody, in the name of all that is holy.... HELP ME !!!!!!!!!!
Before I go INSANE!!!

)

Thanks,
Owen

 

[Gary L. Chefetz \(MVP\)]

Owen:

If you're not getting help on this in microsoft.project.developer, which is
the correct newsgroup for development questions, you're certainly not likely
to get a reply in an end-user forum.

--

Gary L. Chefetz, MVP
"We wrote the book on Project Server
http://www.msprojectexperts.com

-

 

[owen]

Owen:

If you're not getting help on this in microsoft.project.developer, which is
the correct newsgroup for development questions, you're certainly not likely
to get a reply in an end-user forum

My news server (msnews.microsoft.com) does not list a newsgroup called
"microsoft.project.developer".

Any other suggestions for a newsgroup where I should ask?


Owen

 

[Gérard Ducouret]

Owen,
Try : microsoft.public.project.developer

Gérard Ducouret

 

[owen]

Owen,
Try : microsoft.public.project.developer

Thanks, I tried. No response there either.

I am fed up.



Owen

 

[KON]

Owen:

In Project creation method, there is a supporting field
named "WBS --> Work breakdown structure". Ok come to your
point like if you create task1, it assigns itself '1' so
if you want to create it's child task then it means you
need to put its WBS 1.1 to make task1 as summary task.

-KON

 

[Brian K - Project MVP]

Thanks, I tried. No response there either.

I am fed up.

Fed up? You posted this 1 day ago! How fast did you think the free,
volunteer support newsgroups were going to be? If you want Instant
Answers then you will need to get out your credit card and call the MS
Developer help line. But if you have some time these groups will get you
your answer.

Now, unless you can make it work by messing with the WBS and
OutlineLevel properties then I dont see a way to do this with a standard
PDS method. You would need to do it with a PDS extention (if you will be
needing to do this alot) or with direct sql edits if it is a one off
thing.

Sorry

 

[owen]

Thanks, I tried. No response there either.

I am fed up.

Fed up? You posted this 1 day ago! How fast did you think the free,
volunteer support newsgroups were going to be?

I was hoping for same day. Sorry to be impatient but I was at the end of
my tether. P

If you want Instant
Answers then you will need to get out your credit card and call the MS
Developer help line.

MS should have documented this very basic requirement in the SDK / Help docs
anyway, shouldnt have to ask on newsgroups "get my credit card out" for
something which is meant to be a standard requirement.

You would need to do it with a PDS extention (if you will be
needing to do this alot) or with direct sql edits if it is a one off
thing.

C'mon it's pretty basic stuff I'm asking here! "Create a summary task",
that's it. Nothing fancy! I cant beleive I have to create a PDS Extension
to do such a common thing???

I have notched aroudn it by setting the <OutlineLevel> value (1 on parent, 2
on child) which "seems" to have created a summary task with a child.
However I have not touched the "<Summary>" flag, which seems wrong to me,
and I'm not 100% sure I've done it properly. I had to guess, because
there's no documentation provided. (

Owen

 

[Brian K - Project MVP]

MS should have documented this very basic requirement in the SDK / Help docs
anyway, shouldnt have to ask on newsgroups "get my credit card out" for
something which is meant to be a standard requirement.

C'mon it's pretty basic stuff I'm asking here! "Create a summary task",
that's it. Nothing fancy! I cant beleive I have to create a PDS Extension
to do such a common thing???

I have not seen this asked yet. Creating summary tasks is pretty common
but just not very commonly done with the PDS. It is for things like this
that they created the ability to do extensions. Im sorry that the PDS
does not do the exact thing you want.

I have notched aroudn it by setting the <OutlineLevel> value (1 on parent, 2
on child) which "seems" to have created a summary task with a child.
However I have not touched the "<Summary>" flag, which seems wrong to me,
and I'm not 100% sure I've done it properly. I had to guess, because
there's no documentation provided. (

Well when you open the project in Pro is the relationship right? That
would be the test.