Project 2003 to 2007 miscalculation

[Rene Alvarez]

I have an strange behavior.

I need to migrate over 300 projects from Project Server 2003 to 2007.

I open a project from 2003 and save it as a file. Then I open this file in
Project Pro 2007 connected to the 2007 server. When saving the project to the
new server, it applies the enterprise calendars and resources from 2007
(which have been mapped to those on 2003) but many tasks get reprogrammed and
it changes durations, dates and percentages, including the real work that
resources reported several months ago in Project Server 2003.

Any ideas of what's happening here?

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Rene --

If the enterprise calendars are not IDENTICAL in each of your Project Server
systems, that could easily cause the problem. For example, do you have
holidays specified on the enterprise Standard calendar in 2003 and not in
2007, or vice versa? Hope this helps.

 

[Rene Alvarez]

I founded that there are differences between exceptions. Also there are
differences in the working time. In one calendar the working day is from 9-2
and 3-6 and in 2007 I have a working day from 8-1 and 2-5.

Do you think this is driving the tasks (too many) to have let's say 8.11hrs
instead of the original 8hrs and so on?

Thanks a lot!

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Rene --

I would be willing to bet that your calendar issues are entirely the source
of your problems. I think you need to harmonize the calendars between your
2003 and 2007 systems before you import (and mess up) any more projects.
Hope this helps.

 

[Rene Alvarez]

Thanks a lot Dale,

We went through all the process of create and verify that the project
calendars are mapped and now the projects are working fine.

Thanks again.

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Rene --

Yippee! Way to go, my friend. And you are more than welcome for the help.