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Fri, 2004-06-04 18:28
Kevin Edwards-Bowden
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Hey, my first thread! Here goes hope you can help.

The company I work for uses MS Project 2002. We use the Progress Mail functionality via e-mail and update the plans with assignees work daily via this method.

Recently, due to a crash on the Resource Pool 11 of my 27 plans took a trip to the funny farm and were returned via back-up from the day previous.

My issue is now that when the progress mails are updated, all previous days time for the given task/assignment are given a zero from the start of the task and only the day the mail is updated registers any time. Does this make sense. Not sure if I am explaining it well. Basically I think the issue is with the Effort Driven aspect/checkbox within the task properties as all tasks seem to have defaulted to checked. So I am currently opening the progress mails and updating the plans manually, this works fine...for now.:-(

On changing this to unchecked the tasks revert straight back to checked on reopening the project after saving.

Any and all assistance is greatly appreciated.
Many thanks, I feel this may be something and nothing.

Regards

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Wed, 2004-06-09 05:05
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Ahhh...

Will do.


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Tue, 2004-06-08 16:28
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Bernard Ertl
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Kevin, I meant the Microsoft forum (category) here at the Planning Planet. This is the general planning & scheduling category.

Bernard Ertl
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Tue, 2004-06-08 15:17
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Unfortunately I did and they have taken some 4 weeks to even return mail. I sent a copy of one of the plans for reference but to no avail. They refered me to message boards and forums...

I was really hoping that someone may have come across this problem before.

Many thanks for the welcome. :-D
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Fri, 2004-06-04 23:12
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Bernard Ertl
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Hi Kevin, welcome to the Planning Planet!

You should have posted this in the Microsoft forum for better visibility of members who use Microsoft Project since this a software specific issue.

Bernard Ertl
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