Microsoft KB Archive/149951

= PRJ41: Error with ConsolidateProjects and Filenames Argument =

Article ID: 149951

Article Last Modified on 8/30/2002

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Project 4.1 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q149951



SYMPTOMS
In Microsoft Project, when you use the ConsolidateProjects method with wildcards in the FileNames argument, you may receive an error similar to the following:

Run-time error '1004': Filename not valid



WORKAROUND
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To avoid this problem, build a string variable, then pass the string variable to the FileNames argument. The following code demonstrates how to change to the folder where the Project files to be consolidated are located and loops through each file based on a wildcard directory search.

The following code has a limit of 255 characters in the file name string.

Visual Basic Code Example
Sub ProjNames dir_string = "C:\winproj" ' Enter your directory path here ChDir (dir_string)        ' This switches to the above entered ' directory f = Dir("*.MPP")          ' This returns the first filename that ' applies to the wildcard search Do While Len(f) > 0       ' Loop until the last file name has been ' returned file_string = file_string & f & "," ' Adds the new filename, and a comma f = Dir             ' Returns the next file Loop file_string = Left(file_string, Len(file_string) - 1) ' This strips the last comma off ConsolidateProjects FileNames:=file_string, hidesubtasks:=False End Sub



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the versions of Microsoft Project listed above.

