Microsoft KB Archive/128160

Subscriber Disappears with Cancel Subscriber or Break Link

PSS ID Number: Q128160 Article last modified on 05-02-1995

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= SYMPTOMS =

In Microsoft Project, when you cancel a subscriber on the Gantt chart or in the Object viewer in the Resource Form or Task Form, the contents of the subscriber is removed from the project.

= CAUSE =

When you subscribe to an edition from the Gantt chart, or the Object viewer in the Resource Form or Task Form, the subscriber is inserted as a picture into your project. If you cancel the subscriber using either the Cancel Subscriber button (available when you double-click the subscriber) or the Break Link button (available in the Links dialog box), the subscriber is removed from your project.

This behavior contradicts information in the Help file, which indicates that canceling a subscriber removes the link between the subscriber and the edition, but the contents of the subscriber remains in your project.

Note that when you cancel a subscriber on a table in your project, such as the Gantt table, the contents of the subscriber remains in your project as the Help file describes; however, the link is broken as expected.

= WORKAROUNDS =

If you want to display information from your project as a picture in an Object box, or in another project, without linking the data, you can copy the information, and use the Paste Special dialog box to paste the information as a picture.

= MORE INFORMATION =

The Help file states that if you decide you no longer need to update a subscriber in your project file, you can cancel it, and the contents of the subscriber will remain in your project file. The Help file indicates that Microsoft Project severs the link between the subscriber and the edition, leaving the contents of the subscriber in your project. This is true only of a subscriber on a table. This is not true with a subscriber that is a picture, such as a subscriber on the Gantt chart.

= REFERENCES =

For more information About Canceling A Publisher Or Subscriber, choose the Search button in Help and type:

subscribers

KBCategory: kbole KBSubcategory: projmac

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