Compare Projects Add In crashes

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Neil Ratcliffe

Hi,

I am tryng a few things out with the new Compare Projects utility in Project
2003. We are using Project 2003 and Project 2003 Server and everything
appears to be working just fine.

I have saved a different version of a project so now I have two versions of
a project in my database which are Olympic.Published and Olympic.RiskModel

I can run the compare projects utility but half way through it stops, saying
there is too much data to process. When I click OK (the only option) it
presents the correct table, but the variance values are missing.

There are about 50 tasks in each project, and 5 resources. No actuals yet.

This problem is consistent - I have tried on different projects, even
different machines and I am beginning to think that it's an issue with the
actual utility.

Any ideas as to what the problem might be ?

Thanks

Neil Ratcliffe
 
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Mike Glen

Hi Neil,

Welcome to the Microsoft Project newsgroup :)

What Operating System are you using? Windows XP Professional? or what?

FAQs, companion products and other useful Project information can be seen at
this web address: <http://www.mvps.org/project/>

Hope this helps - please let us know how you get on:)

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP
 
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Mike Glen

Hi Neil,

According to my MS contact, what we think is happening is that
there are too many fields of a similar data type that need comparison
and therefore, there aren't enough custom fields to do the comparison
with. The message you may see when this situation happens is "There are
too many columns of a certain type in the currently select task or
resource table. To learn more about this, click Details." If you really
do click the Details button, it gives you a great overview of why you
might be seeing the message and ways to work around it.

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP
 
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