Unique ID

[Louis K]

We have several templates for software projects with summary and subtasks
already creted. If a task is deleted and later recreated, it is assigned a
sequential unique ID. We have automated reporting that sorts by this field.
If I insert a new summary (and sub) task the report sequence is thrown off
due to the new unique ID.

How can I edit this field and how many tables am I going to have to check
for cascading updates?

Thanks!

 

[Gérard Ducouret]

Louis,
You can't edit the Unique ID field : it's read only.
But when your plan is well settled, you can copy every tasks (select the ID
column) and paste in a brand new project, so that the Unique ID will stay in
sequence.

Hope this helps,

Gérard Ducouret

 

[Louis K]

THanks! I'll give that a try -I had hoped that would be the case, that
creating a new project and copying in the tasks would create new -
resequenced, unique IDs for the tasks.

Louis

 

[tonyzink]

Hi Louis --

To make your reporting more robust, you may want to consider using a
custom field -- rather than the task unique ID -- to generate your
reports. You would then have much more control over the values assigned
to each task in your project schedules, and they wouldn't change if
tasks are added or removed.

For example, you could create a custom number field, assign each task
an ID number using that field, then modify your reports to use that
number field for filtering, sorting, etc. You could even build this
right into your project schedule templates so that each task is
preassigned an ID number. If tasks are added to the schedule later,
however, then they may need to be assigned a new ID number manually...
depending upon how your reporting works.

Good luck!

Tony Zink
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