Microsoft KB Archive/178180

= PRJ98: Remaining Work Improperly Updated with Workgroup Messaging =

Article ID: 178180

Article Last Modified on 1/22/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Project 98 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q178180



SYMPTOMS
When you use the workgroup features of Microsoft Project 98, the value for Remaining Work of tasks already in progress may not be updated correctly.

If you update the duration of a task that is in progress, although you see a new value of Remaining Work in the Microsoft Project file, that information is not sent in the workgroup message. Remaining Duration is not recalculated and remains what it was when you last submitted the task update.



CAUSE
Microsoft Project does not send Remaining Work values when updating tasks with Workgroup messaging either through e-mail or the Web.



WORKAROUND
To work around this problem, Resources should provide both Actual Work and Remaining Work on all ongoing tasks when they update their tasks. They should also verify that the sum of Remaining Work and Actual Work equals the total work anticipated for that task.



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

Additional query words: webmail workgroup

Keywords: kbbug kbpending KB178180

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