Project 2007 - Milestones

[Ken]

We have a situation where we create a project, designate one or more
tasks as Milestones (using the Task Information - Advanced tab), and
add dates to some custom Enterprise field columns. We save, publish and
check in, and switch to PWA. We have the same custom fields added to
our Task Details view in PWA. Everything looks fine.

However, if we add any subtasks below these milestone tasks, and repeat
the process, we lose those dates that are on the milestone task in the
PWA view. I can still see the values in Project Pro, but they are not
visible in PWA any longer.

In some cases we also lose the Milestone value. In other words when we
go back into the project with Project Pro, the Milestone checkbox is
unchecked on the Advanced tab.

Anyone know what is going here?

 

[Gary L. Chefetz [MVP]]

Ken:

You can't add subtasks to milestones. The moment you do this, the task is no
longer a task or a milestone, it becomes a summary task. Summary tasks
inherit their values from rolling up values in subtasks. You might consider
experimenting with adding deliverables to the milestones rather than adding
subtasks. This is a new feature in 2007.