Microsoft KB Archive/128623

Autotrack Assignments with Nonzero Delay May Cause Bad Dates

PSS ID Number: Q128623 Article last modified on 04-27-1995

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WINDOWS | MACINTOSH

= SUMMARY =

If the “Updating Task Status Updates Resource Status” option is selected, it may cause incorrect resource assignment dates for a task if the following conditions are met:


 * The project is scheduled from the start date.
 * The task is resource driven and has an ASAP, ALAP, FNET, or SNET constraint.
 * All the task’s resource assignments have non-zero delay.
 * The actual work of at least one of the task’s assignments is greater than zero and the task’s % Complete is less than 100%.

Under the above conditions, the dates of all of the assignments for the task are incorrectly shifted by the amount of the smallest delay.

= RESOLUTION =

To force the resource assignment dates to be calculated correctly, change the task % Complete and assignment Actual Work to 0 (zero).

To prevent the problem, clear the Updating Task Status Updates Resource Status check box, or make sure that tasks with resource assignments have at least one assignment with zero delay.

(The Updating Task Status Updates Resource Status check box is located in the on the Schedule tab of the Options dialog box–from the Tools menu, choose Options).

= STATUS =

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the products listed at the beginning of this article. We are researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

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