Urgent help needed: Weird behaviour with inactive resource

[SylvieU]

Hi,

I am moving resource from one RBS value to another but I need to keep
historical on actual work done by resource on previous RBS. To achieve this I
perform the following actions:
1) Rename resource (ex: RESA with RESA-OLD01) and delete email and windows
account information in enterprise resource pool and save it.
2) Create new resource (ex: RESA) with same email address and windows
account but new RBS and save it in enterprise resource pool.

At this point, actual work done by previous RESA is well tracked in
RESA-OLD01 and new RESA has no work or assigned tasks yet. In the existing
projects, all task assignment to RESA is now replaced by RESA-OLD01; the
project team in projects opened with Project Pro contains the RESA-OLD1
resource instead of RESA.

3) Then, I inactivate the RESA-OLD01 resource from PWA using Admin modify
user menu select Inactive attribute and save.

At this point, when I open existing project with Project Pro and inactive
resource RESA-OLD01, the build project team window shows the resource as
inactive but with the name RESA instead of RESA-OLD01 and the email and
windows account used by RESA!
However, the Enterprise resource ID is in fact the one of RESA-OLD01 and not
new RESA.

This behaviour disappears as soon as I activate RESA-OLD01 again.
How can I prevent from this behaviour which is missy for the project manager
that will see in their projects inactivate resource as if it is new resource!
Don’t tell me to keep the old resource active ïŠ .

Hope I am clear enough,
Thanks in advance for your help,

Sylvie Ubaldi.

 

[Gary L. Chefetz [MVP]]

Sylvie:

I don't trust that your procedure is viable. Although an interesting
approach, I think it's going to lead to strange behavior in the database as
you are observing. No telling what else. I'll do some poking around and see
what I can learn.

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[SylvieU]

Hi Gary,

Do you have additional informations on how to perform this correctly ? I am
very concerned with the way to do it properly as I have few teams moved from
one organization to another. I did not find documents related to it.
This is typically something that happens in every organization and I can't
believe Ms Project is not able to achieve it.
Thanks again for your help,

Sylvie Ubaldi.