Task Approval Hangs

[MJ]

A user has 214 task updates from resources pending their approval. When they
go to the approvals.aspx page, the browser hangs.

If they launch MS Project Professional, they see that there are 214 tasks
awaiting approval, however they experience the same hanging behavior inside
MS Project Pro 2007.

Is this a bug? The behavior does not occur when there are a smaller number
of task updates pending approval.

we are running SP2 on the server.

 

[Andre Venter]

MJ,

What will be very beneficial is to post some Event Logs here so we can
peruse them and possibly help you. Just as a point of interest did you
perhaps try it on another computer. We have found IE to be the problem in
situations like this ?

Regards
--
Andre Venter
Technical Consultant
UMT South Africa
MCP
MCSE 2000
MCITP Project
MCTS Managing Projects
MCTS Confiuring Project Server
MCTS Charter Member
MCTS MOSS
MCITP Charter member

 

[Ray McCoppin]

There was a fix for more than 50 updates not working on the approvals page.
Have you applied SP2? I know this works in SP2 now (more than 50 updates).

Hope this helps
--
Ray McCoppin

http://www.randsmanagement.com
SRS gantt charts
Project Server 2007 Archival Tool

 

[Seth Gillespie]

We had this issue crop up after our SP2 / Apr CU install and the fix
for users that had this issue was:

1. In any project plan, assign yourself a task and some work (this
must be the PM that is having the issue)
2. Save and Publish that plan
3. In PWA / “My Tasks” enter time against this new task
4. Submit your task for approval (assuming you are the approver for
your tasks)
5. Now go to “Task Updates” (aka approvals) and you should be able to
see the Grid View again...

Let me know if this fixes your issue.

Seth

 

[MJ]

Hi Seth,

I tried the steps as you listed below, unfortunately it didn't solve the
issue we having. However, we found a way to workaround, change the status
manager of certain amount of the tasks, so that we can update the tasks in
small amount.

Interesting thing is after I updated the first 36 tasks, then I be able to
update the rest which is 178 tasks. So, maybe the max. is 200 tasks!?

Thanks for the suggestions.

 

[Nathan Hillman]

I have been experiencing exactly the same issue and unable to resolve this. Has a solution ever been found to this issue?

I am using MS Project 2007, Project Sever SP2.

Additionally, does anyone know how to stop the Project Owner being assigned a task by default if no resource is assigned to the task in the plan? We have a number of projects where a resource is not required to be defined. As a result the Plan owner in PWA is getting hundreds of tasks?

Thanks or any advice!

Nathan



MJ wrote:

Hi Seth,I tried the steps as you listed below, unfortunately it didn't solve
10-Aug-09

Hi Seth

I tried the steps as you listed below, unfortunately it did not solve th
issue we having. However, we found a way to workaround, change the statu
manager of certain amount of the tasks, so that we can update the tasks i
small amount

Interesting thing is after I updated the first 36 tasks, then I be able t
update the rest which is 178 tasks. So, maybe the max. is 200 tasks!

Thanks for the suggestions

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Previous Posts In This Thread:

Task Approval Hangs
A user has 214 task updates from resources pending their approval. When the
go to the approvals.aspx page, the browser hangs

If they launch MS Project Professional, they see that there are 214 task
awaiting approval, however they experience the same hanging behavior insid
MS Project Pro 2007

Is this a bug? The behavior does not occur when there are a smaller numbe
of task updates pending approval

we are running SP2 on the server.

MJ,What will be very beneficial is to post some Event Logs here so we can
MJ

What will be very beneficial is to post some Event Logs here so we ca
peruse them and possibly help you. Just as a point of interest did yo
perhaps try it on another computer. We have found IE to be the problem i
situations like this

Regard
-
Andre Vente
Technical Consultan
UMT South Afric
MC
MCSE 200
MCITP Projec
MCTS Managing Project
MCTS Confiuring Project Serve
MCTS Charter Membe
MCTS MOS
MCITP Charter membe

:

There was a fix for more than 50 updates not working on the approvals page.
There was a fix for more than 50 updates not working on the approvals page
Have you applied SP2? I know this works in SP2 now (more than 50 updates)

Hope this help
-
Ray McCoppi

http://www.randsmanagement.co
SRS gantt chart
Project Server 2007 Archival Too

:

We had this issue crop up after our SP2 / Apr CU install and the fixfor users
We had this issue crop up after our SP2 / Apr CU install and the fi
for users that had this issue was

1. In any project plan, assign yourself a task and some work (thi
must be the PM that is having the issue
2. Save and Publish that pla
3. In PWA / =93My Tasks=94 enter time against this new tas
4. Submit your task for approval (assuming you are the approver fo
your tasks
5. Now go to =93Task Updates=94 (aka approvals) and you should be able t
see the Grid View again..

Let me know if this fixes your issue

Set

n the
d
mber

Hi Seth,I tried the steps as you listed below, unfortunately it didn't solve
Hi Seth

I tried the steps as you listed below, unfortunately it did not solve th
issue we having. However, we found a way to workaround, change the statu
manager of certain amount of the tasks, so that we can update the tasks i
small amount

Interesting thing is after I updated the first 36 tasks, then I be able t
update the rest which is 178 tasks. So, maybe the max. is 200 tasks!

Thanks for the suggestions

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[Gerard Wojcik]

Nathan - Not sure this is the same issue - take a look

Issue: Task updates Approvals page loads but the grid is blank (white - no
grid)

ULS logs contained -
Exception occurred in method
PWA.StatusingReadStatusApprovalsForProjectForGrid System.ArgumentException:
Value was either too large or too small for an Int32.Couldn't store
<4320000000> in WWORK_VALUE Column. Expected type is Int32. --->
System.OverflowException: Value was either too large or too small for an
Int32.

We found task with large work hours assigned - run sql query published db to
id the task and projects

SELECT dbo.MSP_PROJECTS.PROJ_NAME,
dbo.MSP_ASSIGNMENTS_SUBMITTED.TASK_NAME,
dbo.MSP_ASSIGNMENTS_SUBMITTED.ASSN_WORK,
dbo.MSP_ASSIGNMENTS_SUBMITTED.ASSN_ACT_WORK,
dbo.MSP_ASSIGNMENTS_SUBMITTED.ASSN_REG_WORK,
dbo.MSP_ASSIGNMENTS_SUBMITTED.ASSN_REM_WORK
FROM dbo.MSP_PROJECTS INNER JOIN
dbo.MSP_ASSIGNMENTS_SUBMITTED ON
dbo.MSP_PROJECTS.PROJ_UID = dbo.MSP_ASSIGNMENTS_SUBMITTED.PROJ_UID
where assn_work > 99999999

once you identify the offending task - large work hours asssigned, set the
task published attribute to "no" and publish the plan(s).

 

[Gary Chefetz]

Nathan:

To suppress the tasks from appearing on the PM's My Tasks page, you can
setup a dummy resource (non-generic) and make that resource the assignment
owner of the tasks. Another workaround would be to set the publish value on
those tasks to "No." We also have a web part that can do this for you, the
My Tasks Constant Filter at https://projectdaddy.com/shopexd.asp?id=480 -
You can also download the working software and obtain a temporary trial key
from the site.



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