Microsoft Project 2007 bug

[Project Reader Staff]

In MSProject2007 the assignment columns present into Task Usage are different
from the assignment columns present into Resource Usage (in previous version
2003 these columns were the same).
There is a bug in using the column flag2 because if you modify this column
in Resource Usage assignment the value is used also for the column flag2 for
the Task Usage assignment ....

If you save the project into XML you are able to find the error:

<ExtendedAttribute>
<FieldID>188743752</FieldID>
<FieldName>Flag1</FieldName>
<SecondaryPID>255868938</SecondaryPID>
</ExtendedAttribute>
<ExtendedAttribute>
<FieldID>188743753</FieldID>
<FieldName>Flag2</FieldName>
</ExtendedAttribute>
<ExtendedAttribute>
<FieldID>188743754</FieldID>
<FieldName>Flag3</FieldName>
<SecondaryPID>255868940</SecondaryPID>

The SecondaryPID for the flag2 is missing the value should be 255868939 ...

 

[Jack Dahlgren]

Good find.
It is odd that only Flag2 behaves the way one would expect it to..

-Jack Dahlgren