Bugs in Project 2007

[Phillip Avelar]

I just upgraded and am attempting to use 2007 with a current project and I am
experiencing some strange behaviour. Occasionaly if there is a change that
causes a dialog box to be presented upon acknowledgement of the popup the
project plan is adversely changed, tasks are deleted, rearragned, this makes
project unusable. I am wondering if others have experienced this. I did not
get any errors when installing so I don't think it was a bad install.

Phil

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Hi,

Don't you have automatic leveling on (Tools, Level Resources...)?

 

[Phillip Avelar]

Nope, don't have it turned on, only level manually. Actually this woud not be
caused by leveling it literally moves lines around on the project plan you
can scan the plan and you'll see line number 167, 168, 169 , 50, 2, 171,172
etc. So there is definetly something wrong. I did notice that others have
posted this on the Microsoft Project bug site, so I posted it there as well.
I lost 2 days of work yesterday so I uninstalled it this a.m until I know
there is a patch.

 

[Brad Whitford]

I haven't used MSP 2007 yet, however looking at your ID numbers it appears to
be a "Sort" issue. Maybe that's where the bugs lie.

 

[Phillip Avelar]

Brad, it definetly is a bug, it's not a sort problem since when you sort
tasks the tasks are renumbered and are always in sequence but when this
happens they are no longer in sequence.
I ran into another problem which finally made me remove 2007 , if you get a
dialog box related to scheduling and wether you accept or cancel the project
plan is literally jumbled, it inserts blank line between tasks and moves
whole sections of the project to other areas of the plan.

Thanks for the input, awaiting a patch before I proceed.

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Hi,

I don't know what it is, just wanted to correct on this:
(Quote) when you sort

tasks the tasks are renumbered and are always in sequence

Not at all! There isan option to renumber tasks but that is rarely used.
A normal sort will not show sequential IDs.

 

[Phillip Avelar]

Jan, not sure we are speaking the same thing then, if you resort a plan's
tasks it most definetly changes the task # so that they are sequential, we
are probably comparing differnet things, anyways you are correct I have never
really sorted any of my plans tasks and don't know when I would use something
like that after I have spent so much time organizing a plan in the first
place.

Cheers

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Hi,

What makes you so sure if you've never done it?
I did it and I'm sure the default option is nit to renumber

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

.... And I'm talking about Project menu; Sort.

 

[Microsoft Project]

Phillip,

Thanks for your posting to the newsgroup. I'm reading of your experience
with Project 2007 with great interest because I'd really like to understand
what's going on here... and get a fix made if necessary.

I've certainly heard of others reporting the same issue where task outlines
and ordering get messed up. From one customer, I received a "before" project
and was told to just open it to see the problem, but so far, I have been
unable to reproduce the problem.

You mention the following:

"Occasionally if there is a change that causes a dialog box to be presented
upon acknowledgement of the popup the project plan is adversely changed,
tasks are deleted, rearragned..."

Can you provide me more information on which dialog you're seeing (what's
the wording and the cirumstances under which you see it, etc)? Also, if you
can supply me with a project or a set of steps that can show the problem,
I'd be extremely appreciative. I'm looking for a way to "watch" the process
as the project starts out in a good state and goes into a bad state.

Regards,

Adrian Jenkins
Microsoft Project

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[Phillip Avelar]

Adrain, I sure can, actually I deinstalled 2007 as I had critical project
updates to make for month end. I can reinstall I am fairly certain I can get
make it reproduce for you as it was consistent.

 

[Indomat]

I got the same problem, also with version 2007.
Al tasks were mixed up, with a not wanted strange order of ID nummers.
When you try to fixed it up, it only becomes worse. Finally the project
inflated itself to 200MB file. This was the end of my file, because Project
could not read it any more.
This makes Projet 2007 totaly useless.

 

[JKaz]

Adrian,

Here is what happened to me:

1) My PC has MS2007 on it.
2) My bosses has MS 2000 on it.
3) The plan was created in MS 2000
4) I uploaded into MS2007
5) I added some tasks (by inserting)
6) I "Save As" 2000-2003 file.
7) At some point, my file is corrupted an almost 2GB big (was about 4,000 KB).

My recommendation would be to start by uploading a MS2000-MS2003 file into
MS2007. Ad some tasks (both high level and detail), then Save As. It may
not happen the first time, but it will eventually happen.

Good Luck

Jeff