Undo project level enterprise custom field changes

[Neil A]

Hi,

In Project 2007, I have defined a number of project level enterprise fields,
used to track things like the customer and project status. Some of these
have lookup tables, some are free text. Users change the value of these
fields via the Project Information Form.

If the user changes a free text field and presses OK, they get an entry
under the Edit menu "Undo Project Information". However, if they change a
field that has a lookup table, no such undo option is created. If they
change a free text field and a lookup table field, and press "Undo Project
Information", the free text field is undone, but the lookup table field
change is not.

Is this a known bug? Is there any known fix/workaround?

Neil A

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Neil --

In the future, please post your Project Server questions in the
microsoft.public.project.server newsgroup, as this newsgroup is dedicated to
the Microsoft Project desktop application only. Regarding the Undo
situation, I'm not sure I would call this either a bug or an issue. And
believe me, even if Microsoft did consider this a bug, this is so minor that
I would doubt they would ever fix it. I mean, it's simple enough for your
users go back into the Project Information dialog to change their custom
field value selections, if necessary. Hope this helps.

 

[Neil A]

Dale,

Sorry, I wasn't sure if this was a server or client issue.

However, I don't think this is so trivial. I can undo anything manually,
but MS rightly saw fit to automate it. I have a dozen such fields that might
be updated in one go, so going back and manually undoing them is not so
trivial, even if I know that "Undo Project Information" has only done half
the job.

Thanks for your quick response, I'll take it up with MS.

Neil A.

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Neil --

Thanks for your further explanation of the situation. Feel free to report
this as a potential bug to Microsoft, but don't hold your breath waiting for
a fix. They have "bigger fish to fry" to fix some of the most serious bugs
in SP1 for Project Server 2007. Hope this helps.

 

[Neil A]

Though not stated, this problem appears to be fixed by this hotfix:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/937907/en-us