Uneven allocation of work over duration

[takadamu]

I'm creating a task with PDS with a duration of 7 days, work of 93
hours and actual work of 53 hours. When I open the project in Project
Pro the work is not being distributed evenly over the seven days of
duration. What I would expect is (93 / 7) hours for each of the days.
Instead, I get 53 hours on the first day and ((93 - 53) / 6) for each
of the remaining six days. The total is right but most of the work is
on the first day.

Is there a way to get the work distributed evenly? I need to have %
complete match % work complete, but this won't happen with the work
spread out unevenly. Here's the PDS I use to create the task:

<Request>
<ProjectTasksCreate>
<AutoPublish>1</AutoPublish>
<ProjectID>384</ProjectID>
<Tasks>
<Task>
<Name>Task Seven</Name>
<ID>9</ID>
<Milestone>0</Milestone>
<ConstraintType>2</ConstraintType>
<ConstraintDate>20060815080000</ConstraintDate>
<Work>5580</Work>
<Type>1</Type>
<EffortDriven>1</EffortDriven>
<OutlineLevel>2</OutlineLevel>
<ActualWork>3180</ActualWork>
<PercentWorkComplete>56</PercentWorkComplete>
<Duration>3360</Duration>
<PercentComplete>56</PercentComplete>
<Start>20060815080000</Start>
<Finish>20060823170000</Finish>
</Task>
</Tasks>
</ProjectTasksCreate>
</Request>

Thanks.

 

[Jim Martin]

Nevermind. I just found that if I don't specify the actual work and %
work complete in the PDS that it works how I'd expect. I'm not sure why
it was doing something different, but I've found a way to avoid it.