Remaining duration issue

[Makkan]

Hi all,

I encountered a weird behavior while copying existing tasks into a new
project through PSI.
I have a project with one task that begins at 01/01/08, finishes at
01/09/08, has a duration of 8 days and, lets say, is 50% completed. If I now
copy the project through PSI (creating a new project and copying every task
in the ProjectDataSet), the finish date of the copied task has moved to
01/05/08 and the percentage completed changed to 0%.
Through intensive testing I found out that the remaining duration
(TASK_REM_DUR) is used to calculate the finish date of the task instead of
the real duration (TASK_DUR). If I set the TASK_REM_DUR to TASK_DUR the dates
are fine. But in every case the completion is set to 0%. I tried to set the
actual duration (TASK_ACT_DUR) and the percentage completed (TASK_PCT_COMP)
but this changed nothing.
I would like to have the copied task to have the same properties as the
original task (that means the SAME start and finish dates and the SAME
completion state).

Code to copy a task (where row is the TaskRow of the original project):

ProjectDataSet.TaskRow newRow = targetProjectDataSet.Task.NewTaskRow();
newRow.ItemArray = row.ItemArray;


Has anybody had this issue or is this a bug?
Thanks for any help.

 

[Stephen Sanderlin]

ProjectDataSet.TaskRow.TASK_ACT_DUR is read-only, as is
ProjectDataSet.TaskRow.TASK_PCT_COMP.



You need to use the Statusing web service to make these changes.



References:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/websvcproject.projectdataset.taskrow.task_act_dur.aspx

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/websvcproject.projectdataset.taskrow.task_pct_comp.aspx

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb428845.aspx

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb428844.aspx


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