Views Processor Failed, Project Server 2003

[Andy S]

I am running Project Server 2003. When I publish projects, I receive
two application errors:

Component: Views Notification Service
Error Number: 0x800a0005
Description: <Description><![CDATA[The views processor failed to
process the following document...

Component: Views Notification Service
Error Number: 0x800a0005
Description: <Description><![CDATA[View scheduler received error while
scheduling views]]></Description>

I have already:

1. Ensured Service Account and Everyone has full permissions to
ViewDrop folder.
2. Restarted Views Notification, Scheduled Process Service, IIS, and
the entire server.
3. Removed all special characters from project names, resource names,
and enterprise codes.
4. Ran dbcc checkdb (resulted zero errors).
5. Checked COM+ Applications settings, and verified that IIS and
Project Server apps do not have security properties set to Enforce
Access Checks For This Application (however, the system application
does, but the option to uncheck Enforce Access Checks For This
Application is greyed out).

This error has occurred for about a month, but previously I reset the
views notification service, and the problem seemingly went away. Now
I cannot get past it for the past two business days. Our enterprise
has come to a standstill.

 

[Andy S]

Update: In addition to the two warnings mentioned above, I also see
this error just prior the warnings:

Component: PCSViews
Error Number: 0x5
Description: <Description><![CDATA[Error Information: Invalid
procedure call or argument

 

[Andy S]

Additional Information:

Assignments are publishing just fine. It is the project views that
are not being updated, and causing the errors listed above.

 

[Andy S]

Yuck - a day later, still the same problem. It is odd to me that
assignments update, but project views do not. This is very
frustrating! Should I reinstall Project Server 2003? Should I
open up a help ticket with Microsoft?

 

[Chak]

Yuck - a day later, still the same problem.  It is odd to me that
assignments update, but project views do not.  This is very
frustrating!     Should I reinstall Project Server 2003?  Should I
open up a help ticket with Microsoft?

Andy,

Have you checked the VieW Drop folder?

I doubt, there might be unprocessed XML files. If so, findout the
published date and time of those files. Queue will not move
till you removed the XML file which was causing the error. If queue is
not moving, you will not seen PWA updates.

Thanks
Chak
http://www.epmcentral.com

 

[Andy S]

Thanks for the reply! I appreciative of any suggestions here,
although I will likely open up a support ticket with Microsoft this
afternoon.

No files are in the view drop folder.

 

[Ben]

I have a very similar problem, also in Project Server 2003.

I am making a call to the PDS Web Service (SoapXMLRequest() method) and
passing the following XML
<Request><ProjectViewTablesCreate><ProjectID>5373</ProjectID></ProjectViewTablesCreate></Request>

For 90% of projects, this works fine. For the other 10%, I receive the
following errors in the application event log:

Component: PCSViews
File: ViewsDrop.cls
Line: -1
Error Number: 0x5
Description: <Description><![CDATA[Error Information: Invalid procedure call
or argument
Additional Information: An error occured processing the following view :-
<ViewsDropData><ProjectData><EntProjectName><![CDATA[10900419.Published]
]></EntProjectName><EntProjectID>5373</EntProjectID></ProjectData><OrgGuid>projectserver</OrgGuid><ProjectID>6061</ProjectID><BasePath>projectserver</BasePath><TimeStamp>2008-05-09T12:22:27</TimeStamp></ViewsDropData>
]]></Description>


Component: Views Notification Service
File: C:\Office\devsp\project\pcportal\source\viewsnotify\ViewNotify.cpp
Line: 212
Error Number: 0x800a0005
Description: <Description><![CDATA[The views processor failed to process the
following document:

<ViewsDropData><ProjectData><EntProjectName><![CDATA[10900419.Published]
]></EntProjectName><EntProjectID>5373</EntProjectID></ProjectData><OrgGuid>projectserver</OrgGuid><ProjectID>6061</ProjectID><BasePath>projectserver</BasePath><TimeStamp>2008-05-09T12:22:27</TimeStamp></ViewsDropData>
]]></Description>

There are no files in the drop folder. When i execute, there is an XML file
there briefly but it is removed. This can't be a permissions issue as it is
project specific.

Perhaps it is to do with the data being processed? Illegal Characters? Which
fields should I check?

Any ideas?

Ben

 

[Chak]

Hi Ben,

Is it you have project called "10900419.Published" ? I guess this
project is causing the error. Also see other project's error messages
also? And see what's the common on these projects. Is it name or
something elso.

As I know, OLAP expect to see the name must beging with character. Try
to change the name of the project as A10900419. I hope this eliminates
the error.

Thanks
Chak
http://www.epmcentral.com

I have a very similar problem, also in Project Server 2003.

I am making a call to the PDS Web Service (SoapXMLRequest() method) and
passing the following XML:
<Request><ProjectViewTablesCreate><ProjectID>5373</ProjectID></ProjectViewT­ablesCreate></Request>

For 90% of projects, this works fine. For the other 10%, I receive the
following errors in the application event log:

Component: PCSViews
File: ViewsDrop.cls
Line: -1
Error Number: 0x5
Description: <Description><![CDATA[Error Information: Invalid procedure call
or argument
Additional Information: An error occured processing the following view :-
<ViewsDropData><ProjectData><EntProjectName><![CDATA[10900419.Published]
]></EntProjectName><EntProjectID>5373</EntProjectID></ProjectData><OrgGuid>­projectserver</OrgGuid><ProjectID>6061</ProjectID><BasePath>projectserver</­BasePath><TimeStamp>2008-05-09T12:22:27</TimeStamp></ViewsDropData>
]]></Description>

Component: Views Notification Service
File: C:\Office\devsp\project\pcportal\source\viewsnotify\ViewNotify.cpp
Line: 212
Error Number: 0x800a0005
Description: <Description><![CDATA[The views processor failed to process the
following document:

<ViewsDropData><ProjectData><EntProjectName><![CDATA[10900419.Published]
]></EntProjectName><EntProjectID>5373</EntProjectID></ProjectData><OrgGuid>­projectserver</OrgGuid><ProjectID>6061</ProjectID><BasePath>projectserver</­BasePath><TimeStamp>2008-05-09T12:22:27</TimeStamp></ViewsDropData>
]]></Description>

There are no files in the drop folder. When i execute, there is an XML file
there briefly but it is removed. This can't be a permissions issue as it is
project specific.

Perhaps it is to do with the data being processed? Illegal Characters? Which
fields should I check?

Any ideas?

Ben

Thanks for the reply!  I appreciative of any suggestions here,
although I will likely open up a support ticket with Microsoft this
afternoon.

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[Ben]

We eventually got to the bottom of this -
The problem was that some of the Project Milestones (or tasks) being
inserted via PDS calls had newline characters (\n) in their titles. MS
Project 2003 can't handle these.

If anyone has a similar problem, I would suggest pointing the MS Project
client at the server and trying to open the project. In my situation it told
me the project was corrupt and gave me a line number, which I was then able
to use to scrutinise the input data.

Ben

Hi Ben,

Is it you have project called "10900419.Published" ? I guess this
project is causing the error. Also see other project's error messages
also? And see what's the common on these projects. Is it name or
something elso.

As I know, OLAP expect to see the name must beging with character. Try
to change the name of the project as A10900419. I hope this eliminates
the error.

Thanks
Chak
http://www.epmcentral.com

I have a very similar problem, also in Project Server 2003.

I am making a call to the PDS Web Service (SoapXMLRequest() method) and
passing the following XML:
<Request><ProjectViewTablesCreate><ProjectID>5373</ProjectID></ProjectViewT­ablesCreate></Request>

For 90% of projects, this works fine. For the other 10%, I receive the
following errors in the application event log:

Component: PCSViews
File: ViewsDrop.cls
Line: -1
Error Number: 0x5
Description: <Description><![CDATA[Error Information: Invalid procedure call
or argument
Additional Information: An error occured processing the following view :-
<ViewsDropData><ProjectData><EntProjectName><![CDATA[10900419.Published]
]></EntProjectName><EntProjectID>5373</EntProjectID></ProjectData><OrgGuid>­projectserver</OrgGuid><ProjectID>6061</ProjectID><BasePath>projectserver</­BasePath><TimeStamp>2008-05-09T12:22:27</TimeStamp></ViewsDropData>
]]></Description>

Component: Views Notification Service
File: C:\Office\devsp\project\pcportal\source\viewsnotify\ViewNotify.cpp
Line: 212
Error Number: 0x800a0005
Description: <Description><![CDATA[The views processor failed to process the
following document:

<ViewsDropData><ProjectData><EntProjectName><![CDATA[10900419.Published]
]></EntProjectName><EntProjectID>5373</EntProjectID></ProjectData><OrgGuid>­projectserver</OrgGuid><ProjectID>6061</ProjectID><BasePath>projectserver</­BasePath><TimeStamp>2008-05-09T12:22:27</TimeStamp></ViewsDropData>
]]></Description>

There are no files in the drop folder. When i execute, there is an XML file
there briefly but it is removed. This can't be a permissions issue as it is
project specific.

Perhaps it is to do with the data being processed? Illegal Characters? Which
fields should I check?

Any ideas?

Ben

Thanks for the reply! I appreciative of any suggestions here,
although I will likely open up a support ticket with Microsoft this
afternoon.

No files are in the view drop folder. - Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -