Microsoft KB Archive/245927

= PRJ2000: Inconsistent Percent Units When You Assign Material Resource =

Article ID: 245927

Article Last Modified on 1/25/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Project 2000 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q245927



SYMPTOMS
In Microsoft Project 2000, when you assign a material resource and type a percentage for its units value, you may see inconsistent behavior depending on where you assign the resource.

In the Resource Assignment Dialog Box or Resource Names Field
The percentage value is converted to a decimal value. For example, 25% is converted to .25. No warning or error message is generated.

In the Task Information Dialog Box on the Resources Tab
You receive the following error message

This is not a valid Units value.

For Work type resources (such as people or machinery), type a positive number between 0 and 60,000,000 (or 6,000,000,000 percent) with up to two decimal places.

Material type resource assignments (such as consumable materials like fuel or cement) can be either fixed or variable. For a fixed material resource assignment, type the units value alone. For example, "10" would mean "10 tons", if your material label was, for example, "tons".

For a variable material resource assignment, type the units value, a slash (/), and the abbreviation for the time period at which the unit value is accrued. For example, "12/w" would mean "12 tons per week".



CAUSE
This behavior occurs when you assign units of a material resource as a percentage value. You can only assign material resource units as either a whole number, or as a decimal value with up to two decimal places.



WORKAROUND
To work around this behavior, assign material resources with a units value expressed as a decimal, not as a percentage.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.

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