Microsoft KB Archive/114096

Error Still Appears After “Don’t Tell Me About This Again”

PSS ID Number: Q114096 Article last modified on 04-06-1995

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= SYMPTOMS =

In Microsoft Project, when you select the Don’t Tell Me About This Again check box in a Planning Wizard dialog box that appears because of a scheduling conflict in your project, you still receive an error message if this scheduling conflict occurs again.

= MORE INFORMATION =

The Planning Wizard is a tool that provides you with hints while you schedule tasks in your project. When you create a scheduling conflict in your project, for example by setting the start date for a task before the project start date, the Planning Wizard dialog box that appears gives you the option to cancel the action, or to continue with the action and allow the conflict. In addition, some of the Planning Wizards give you the additional option to continue with the action, but avoid a scheduling conflict, for example by changing a nonworking day to a working day.

If you receive a Planning Wizard dialog box, and you always want to allow this particular conflict, you can choose the Don’t Tell Me About This Again check box, and that individual Planning Wizard will not appear again. You may receive an error message when you perform this action again; however, you can choose OK when the error message appears and the action is allowed.

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

 * 1) In a new project, choose Options from the Tools menu. Select the General tab. Under Planning Wizard, select the Advice From PlanningWizard check box, and then select each of the Advice About check boxes. Choose OK.
 * 2) Enter a task, T1. Drag the task bar for T1 to the left on the Gantt chart so that the task starts before the project start date.
 * 3) In the Planning Wizard dialog box that appears with the message that you moved task 1 to start before the project start date, select the Don’t Tell Me About This Again check box. Choose OK.
 * 4) Enter another task, T2. Drag the task bar for T2 to the left on the Gantt chart so that the task starts before the project start date, but after T1.

The following error message appears:

Start of task 2 of ‘Project1’ is before the project starts.

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