Editing Issues List

[Derekj]

I am noticing VERY strange behavior -

I use the issues lists for many projects and there are numerous issues
listed. when I go to edit an existing issue (add to the discription, change
the status, etc.,) instead of updating the issue, it duplicates it so that in
the "ALL ISSUES" view i can see two or three or four copies of the same
issue, each with the successive edits. Each copy has a separate Item Number.

but only the newest version of the issue is fully editable. if i click on
the other versions, instead of the usual choices at the top ("new issue",
"edit issue", "delete issue", "alert me", "go back to list"), the 'older
versions' of the issue only show two options: "go back to current issue" and
"go back to list". this leads me to believe it is a feature of the new 2003
version - not a bug - like some sort of "show or hide history" configuration
that i don't know how to change.

to compound the wierdness, when i switch from the "All Issues" view to "All
Active Issues", the multiple versions of the same issue all of a sudden have
the same repeating ID number instead of different numbers.

to make the wierdness EVEN WIERDER STILL... i have several projects with
issues lists that were on the older version of project server and which were
just migrated to the new Project Server 2003. For these older projects, when
I edit the issues in their issues lists, they behave as i would hope, which
is to say they UPDATE THE ISSUE - THEY DON'T MAKE DUPLICATE COPIES OF THE
ISSUE. the only place this duplication effect is happening is with completely
new issues lists for new projects that were just entered into Project Server
2003 after we migrated to the new version.

THIS IS DRIVING ME INSANE - WILL SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

thanks
derek

 

[Reid McTaggart]

You just have to change your WSS Site Configuration settings. Someone must
have modified the template, because your settings are not what comes out of
the box.

To see/fix the problem, in WSS Admin go to Customization > Modify site
content > Customize "Issues" > Views > All Issues > Filter. You will see
that the radio button for "Show all items in this view" is selected. Change
the selection to "Show items only when the following is true:" and then in
the three boxes below the button enter Current > is equal to > Yes.

You will have to make this change to all existing sites that have the
problem. Then, you can change the WSS template so that future sites are
created with the correct setting.

Reid McTaggart
(e-mail address removed)
Alegient, Inc.
Microsoft Certified Partner
Project Server Experts