custom enterprise fields in Project 2007

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Jay

A user reported having problems with the custom enterprise fields in Project
2007

He can add the fields just fine as well as the look-up tables.

First problem is that the lookup tables were getting mixed up. Values in all
tables were getting mixed up in all the enterprise fields. He deleted all but
one of the custom fields and the lookup seems ok now, but he haven’t added
the ones back in to double-check. Any advice?

Second and more serious problem is that the custom field of Time-Accounting
Category isn’t syncing properly between the web and the client. If he creates
a new task in the app with that field defined, it never appears on the users
view (he added it to the views already). If the user changes the value, he
gets notified of the change and he see the change made on the web, but it
never changes the actual data the project file.

He tried all kinds of different ways to make it appear, even removing and
re-adding in the custom field. Nothing seems to work.

Is this a known issue?

Thanks in advance.
 
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Jonathan Sofer

For the first issue, you should only be seeing this issue within Project
Professional and it is a cache issue. Make sure to delete the cache each
time you make changes to the custom enterprise fields. Delete 12 and Cache
under C:\Documents and Settings\jonathan.sofer\Application Data\Microsoft\MS
Project.

This is a bug in 2007 with a hotfix and will be applied on the client side.
This is to be included in SP1 as well.

Rollup KB 937907

#18724: PRJ2007 - Enterprise Outline Codes changes not saved when changed
via the Project Information dialog box

#18882: PRJ2007 - Projects remain in a "Checkin Pending" state

#800238: PRJ2007 - Enterprise Formulas may cause endless calculations in
Project Professional

#800594: PRJ2007 - Enterprise Lookup Tables don't appear correctly in
Project Professional. Values may be missing or values from several tables
may appear combined.

#800933: PRJ2007 - Saving projects in Professional may fail after enterprise
flag fields have been deleted and other fields are created.

#797961, 797968, 798035: PRJ2007 - Various crashing problems because of
invalid items in the active cache
 
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Jay

Thank you very much for the suggestion Gary, I will try removing the dash and
report the result.

Thank you again Gary.

-Jay
 
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Jay

Update: Deleted the field "Time-Accounting" and recreated it as "Time Actg
Category". Unfortunatly the problem still exists. I will continue to look
into yhr problem.

-Jay
 
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