Updated Custom Field by PSI Not Showing in Project Professional

[VballVol]

We have created an enterprise custom field called RFC# that is a generated
number for audit purposes. The user goes to the intranet and generates the
number which updates the task via PSI. However, in testing this, we get the
following behavior:

Intranet Projects 2008 – made sure it was saved and published. Left project
plan OPEN
Went to Intranet and generated RFC number for a task. 81301 (Adds RFC
Number to PWA_PUBLISHED)
Closed and reopened MS Project and no RFC number on MS Project
Proj Center – shows 81301
Res Center – shows 81301
My Tasks – shows 81301
My timesheet – shows 81301

Intranet Projects 2008 – opened and added new task. Saved and published.
CLOSED project plan
Went to Intranet and generated RFC number for task. 81302 (Adds RFC Number
to PWA_PUBLISHED)
Proj Center – shows 81302
Res Center – shows 81302
My tasks – shows 81302
My timesheet – does not show 81302
no RFC# in Project Professional

Any thoughts? We are updating the Published database. Any help would be
greatly appreciated!
In both cases the RFC numbers do not show in MS Project.

 

[Rod Gill]

No explanation, except # is not a good idea in a name for anything. For
safely pushing data from Project to PWA and the cube, use only alphabetic
and numeric characters, so it would be worth trying RFC Num as a field name
instead of RFC#. At least remove the # as a possible cause!

--

Rod Gill
Microsoft MVP for Project

Author of the only book on Project VBA, see:
http://www.projectvbabook.com

 

[VballVol]

We did not use the "#" sign. Just being lazy in typing my question