Columns Change

[steve]

When I save my project and reopen it, my column field names change. What am
i doing that is causing this?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Steve

 

[John]

When I save my project and reopen it, my column field names change. What am
i doing that is causing this?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Steve

Steve,
When a view is customized, (e.g. field name change), that view is saved
with the file. However each view has its own view table and just because
you might change the Name field to say "Task Desc" in the Gantt view,
that field will still be "Name" in any other view, unless of course you
change it for those views also.

John
Project MVP

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Hi,

Are you connected to a Project Server?
Then your views and tables could be Enterprise defined.
HTH

 

[John]

John,

First of all - thanks for the reply.

Unfortunately the changes that take place are not in the name themselves but
the entire order and columns themselves. For instance - I save the project
without the work column but when I open the file back up, the work column
reappears.

I spent a bit of time trying to figure out what was causing the problem to
no avail, but I did figure out how to prevent it from happening. The
original project was using the following table "Project Guide: Custom Project
Table". If I changed the table to a standard table, customized the columns,
and then saved the project I could reopen it and the columns would be the
same.

Now I have to decide if I have the time today to play around and figure out
how "Project Guide: Custom Project Table" was used in the first place.

Cordially,

Steve

Steve,
Project Guide was developed to make Project easier to use for both
individual users and in a corporate environment. I don't know much about
it (never used it) but it can be set up as template for specific company
needs. From your description I wonder if that is what you are seeing. Go
to Tools/Options/Interface tab and check to see if either the "use
custom page" or "use custom content" are checked. If so, then the views,
tables, etc. are defined by your company and they probably shouldn't be
changed. You can of course, do what you did and turn off the Project
Guide to allow full local user control.

Hope this helps.
John
Project MVP

 

[John]

Nope - none of the buttons were checked. I hate to waste any more of your
time with this. Thanks a lot for helping!

The rub is that I can't figure out how I selected "Project Guide: ...." in
the first place.

Steve,
I can only guess that somewhere along the line there was an inadvertent
keystroke.

At any rate, you're welcome, I'm glad you figured it out.

john
Project MVP