Pasting Error Occurred on ID X in the [blank] column.

[John D.]

Goes on ...

This is not a valid duration, or is outside the range for this field ....

By [blank] I mean the normal text for the column name is missing. As if the
column it's seeing the error in has no name.

This was also followed with the same error for the Basline Fixed Cost
Accrual Column

Occurs while cutting and pasting a summary task in schedule that has been
inserted to another schedule. Happens in both the sub schedule alone and in
the consolidating schedule.

This came on yesterday and had not been an issue all last week.

It is reproducible by my ISP's tech support.

Tried to date:
XP Sp3
MS Project Pro 2007 - SP1
Creating a different view and doing the cut -n- paste from there.
There was on article in the MS knowledge base that was not useful.

I can get it to go away by saving down to 2003, doing on cut-n-paste and
then using that new task group going forward with subsequent cut-n-pastes.

I'm guessing somewhere in the process one or more bogus columns are showing
up in the schema, but I have no way that I know of to find it.

Any help would be appreciated.

Hope this is being posted in the right forum.

Best,
John D.

 

[John D.]

Been working on this some more. Seems to be related to enterprise custom
fields. Some of them seem to have come into the project in the process of
opening a local schedule whilst logged into the server in Project Pro.

I've noticed that these fields show up after opening the schedule but
subsequently go away after saving to the server. But, somewhere in the
process on at least one of my project files, they got "stuck" in the project.
I suspect they are sitting there with bad data in them to boot which is
fouling up the copy paste process some how.

I have saved these files locally out to .XML and the custom fields go away.

Current plan is to do this -
Establish default values for the basic enterprise custom fields on the
server in hopes that this will at least prevent garbage data or
uninitialized variables.

Re-save and republish the cleansed files.

Re link the project to project interfacing tasks.

If any of this is ringing a bell and / or you have additional suggestions,
please let me know.

I hope this is the right forum. The problem is not happening locally, so I'm
regarding it as a server driven problem that is showing up in the client.
"But for" the server, this would not be a problem.

Regards,
John Delaney