Update as Scheduled button inserts an incorrect 100%

[Jim Trickett]

On updating a project in project 2003, I often find that the Update as
Scheduled button causes a 100% Complete markup, even on tasks crossing the
Current Date or Status Date lines. This is obviosly incorrect but as yet no
explanation has been found.

Any suggestions?

 

[Steve House [Project MVP]]

Can you give an example? Today is Tueday about 3pm. I have a project
beginning yesterday morning with a single task lasting 5 days. Project
actually sees the current date as today at 8am. When I click "Update As
Scheduled" in the tracking toolbar, Project updates the task showing 2 day's
work, compelte through the end of the workday today. Granted it's jumping
the gun a little, but only by a few hours.

 

[Jim Trickett]

Thanks for that Steve, but we are talking quite long tasks here (20 - 30
days+ with only 4 - 5 days spent). It isn't a 'time of day' problem. Neither
is it a hardware related problem as I have found it on a number of different
PCs, and it does seem to be intermittant - It didn't do it yesterday, but it
did on Wednesday last week. It is something I hadn't seen until MSP'2003 - I
don't know if there are any differences in the way its calculated(?).
Regards,
Jim Trickett

 

[Steve House]

I was only giving an example and the length of the task doesn't affect
it. Are you sure you hit the "update as scheduled" and not one of the
other specific percentage complete buttons by accident?

How about the time scale of the Gantt timeline - what was it set to?
The only time I've seen anything like what you describe is it does
round up to show progress through the end of whatever unit includes
the current date. So if today was Wednesday and the timeline was set
to show "weeks" as its granularity, the "update as scheduled" would
should progress through the end of the current week, jumping the gun
by a couple of days. Could that account for what you're seeing?

Steve House [MVP]
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