MSP 2007 changing tasks with resources allocated at 0% to mileston

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Kiron Bondale

Hi folks -

This behavior seems to be new for 2007 - does anyone know if there is a way
to disable it by default without having impacts on other aspects of the
product:

If you import a schedule (in XML format) that has tasks that are fixed
duration with resources assigned at 0%, MSP 2007 changes them to a 0-day
duration milestone.

In MSP 2003 and before, there was no changes made to the milestone status or
to the duration of the tasks.

Thanks!

Kiron
 
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Jan De Messemaeker

Hi Kiron,

Indeed, a flaw, not to say a bug.
Not restricted to import from XML, also happens when introduced manually.
After that it doesn't even accept a change to anything but 0d duration.

Workaround? I can see 2.

- Assign the resource with a work amount of 1 minute
-Or assign two resources to the task, one "generic" representing the
estimated work, and the other the 'true" resource with 0% units.
Hope this helps,
 
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Kiron Bondale

Hi Jan -

Those are pretty much the only two workarounds I had come up with as well.
So as far as you know, there is no way to change this behavior?

Thanks,

Kiron
 

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