Last Modified and Last Published

[L8rdays]

Hi... MSPS 2007, all updates

Can I get a clarification of Last Modified and Last Published fields? What
is the difference in these two dates?

My guess is...
Last Modified - when the project was last changed and saved, but not
published.

Last Published - just that, last time the project was published.

I was questioning my logic when I have a project that has a last modify date
of 1/22/09 and a last published date of 3/22/09.

So I was then wondering that if the PM just published and did not choose
SAVE separately, did the last modify date not get updated?

I searched the FAQ sites I could find and looked through Gary and Dale’s
admin book as well as another book and couldn’t easily find this information
so I would appreciate any information shared.

 

[CQ]

You are correct in your assumption about the dates. Specifically, the three
main dates are the following:

Last Saved
Project Server updates PROJ_LAST_SAVED whenever you update anything on the
project (that is, when Project Professional saves the project or another
application uses the Project Server Interface (PSI) to update the project).

Last Published
Date and time the project was last published.

Last Modified
Date and time the project was last saved.

So, in looking at your question, and the two different dates it is possible
that the published date is different than the modified date if it was
published but not saved. However, I am not sure how that can be - in
Professional, I think it always requires you to save the file when you
publish. Therefore, I would guess that if the dates are different that a
change to the schedule was made in PWA only? I am not sure about that but I
think it is possible that if you make a change in PWA and not open
Professional that would not necessarily change the Last Modified date.

 

[L8rdays]

CQ - THANKS!

Your assumption that PWA updates (Edit Project Properties) have been
modified and I didn't open up the projects in Project Professional. I just
did a publish from PWA.

(Now to explain this in english to my users. ;-) )