Microsoft KB Archive/128161

Unexpected Prompt to Save File After Subscribing to Edition

PSS ID Number: Q128161 Article last modified on 10-20-1995

3.00 4.00

MACINTOSH

= SYMPTOMS =

In Microsoft Project, when you create a publisher, and you then subscribe to the edition created by the publisher in the same project, you are prompted to save the project file when you close it, even if you have not made any changes to the file since the last time you saved it.

= CAUSE =

This behavior occurs when your project contains a publisher and a subscriber of the same edition, if the subscriber is a picture. For example, this behavior occurs if you subscribe to an edition from the Object viewer in the Task Form or the Resource Form, or from the Gantt Chart.

This behavior does not occur when the publisher and subscriber are from different editions.

This behavior occurs because when you save a project that contains a publisher, the publisher sends an “update” message to the subscriber of the published edition. Because this message can only be handled after the project is saved, the update message is marked as a change to the file that contains the subscriber. If the publisher and subscriber are in the same project, the project is marked as changed after it is saved, and you are prompted to save the file when you close it, even if you have not made any changes to the file since you last saved it.

Note that this behavior also occurs in Microsoft Excel.

= REFERENCES =

For more information about Publishing And Subscribing, choose the Search button in Help and type:

subscribing

KBCategory: kbole KBSubcategory: projmac

= Additional reference words: 3.00 4.00 =

Copyright Microsoft Corporation 1995.