Hi,

In Project 2007, I have defined a number of project level enterprise fields,
used to track things like the customer and project status. Some of these
have lookup tables, some are free text. Users change the value of these
fields via the Project Information Form.

If the user changes a free text field and presses OK, they get an entry
under the Edit menu "Undo Project Information". However, if they change a
field that has a lookup table, no such undo option is created. If they
change a free text field and a lookup table field, and press "Undo Project
Information", the free text field is undone, but the lookup table field
change is not.

Is this a known bug? Is there any known fix/workaround?

Neil A

Re: Undo project level enterprise custom field changes by Dale

Dale
Thu Nov 08 13:17:16 PST 2007

Neil --

In the future, please post your Project Server questions in the
microsoft.public.project.server newsgroup, as this newsgroup is dedicated to
the Microsoft Project desktop application only. Regarding the Undo
situation, I'm not sure I would call this either a bug or an issue. And
believe me, even if Microsoft did consider this a bug, this is so minor that
I would doubt they would ever fix it. I mean, it's simple enough for your
users go back into the Project Information dialog to change their custom
field value selections, if necessary. Hope this helps.

--
Dale A. Howard [MVP]
VP of Educational Services
msProjectExperts
http://www.msprojectexperts.com
http://www.projectserverexperts.com
"We write the books on Project Server"


"Neil A" <NeilA@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:CAB51A7B-0EF5-494E-93BE-87993CFEF032@microsoft.com...
> Hi,
>
> In Project 2007, I have defined a number of project level enterprise
> fields,
> used to track things like the customer and project status. Some of these
> have lookup tables, some are free text. Users change the value of these
> fields via the Project Information Form.
>
> If the user changes a free text field and presses OK, they get an entry
> under the Edit menu "Undo Project Information". However, if they change a
> field that has a lookup table, no such undo option is created. If they
> change a free text field and a lookup table field, and press "Undo Project
> Information", the free text field is undone, but the lookup table field
> change is not.
>
> Is this a known bug? Is there any known fix/workaround?
>
> Neil A



Re: Undo project level enterprise custom field changes by NeilA

NeilA
Thu Nov 08 13:31:08 PST 2007

Dale,

Sorry, I wasn't sure if this was a server or client issue.

However, I don't think this is so trivial. I can undo anything manually,
but MS rightly saw fit to automate it. I have a dozen such fields that might
be updated in one go, so going back and manually undoing them is not so
trivial, even if I know that "Undo Project Information" has only done half
the job.

Thanks for your quick response, I'll take it up with MS.

Neil A.

"Dale Howard [MVP]" wrote:

> Neil --
>
> In the future, please post your Project Server questions in the
> microsoft.public.project.server newsgroup, as this newsgroup is dedicated to
> the Microsoft Project desktop application only. Regarding the Undo
> situation, I'm not sure I would call this either a bug or an issue. And
> believe me, even if Microsoft did consider this a bug, this is so minor that
> I would doubt they would ever fix it. I mean, it's simple enough for your
> users go back into the Project Information dialog to change their custom
> field value selections, if necessary. Hope this helps.
>
> --
> Dale A. Howard [MVP]
> VP of Educational Services
> msProjectExperts
> http://www.msprojectexperts.com
> http://www.projectserverexperts.com
> "We write the books on Project Server"
>
>
> "Neil A" <NeilA@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:CAB51A7B-0EF5-494E-93BE-87993CFEF032@microsoft.com...
> > Hi,
> >
> > In Project 2007, I have defined a number of project level enterprise
> > fields,
> > used to track things like the customer and project status. Some of these
> > have lookup tables, some are free text. Users change the value of these
> > fields via the Project Information Form.
> >
> > If the user changes a free text field and presses OK, they get an entry
> > under the Edit menu "Undo Project Information". However, if they change a
> > field that has a lookup table, no such undo option is created. If they
> > change a free text field and a lookup table field, and press "Undo Project
> > Information", the free text field is undone, but the lookup table field
> > change is not.
> >
> > Is this a known bug? Is there any known fix/workaround?
> >
> > Neil A
>
>
>

Re: Undo project level enterprise custom field changes by Dale

Dale
Thu Nov 08 14:02:08 PST 2007

Neil --

Thanks for your further explanation of the situation. Feel free to report
this as a potential bug to Microsoft, but don't hold your breath waiting for
a fix. They have "bigger fish to fry" to fix some of the most serious bugs
in SP1 for Project Server 2007. Hope this helps.

--
Dale A. Howard [MVP]
VP of Educational Services
msProjectExperts
http://www.msprojectexperts.com
http://www.projectserverexperts.com
"We write the books on Project Server"


"Neil A" <NeilA@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:FA7C9CC4-6C20-4F1C-ACC0-FE6AF1782220@microsoft.com...
> Dale,
>
> Sorry, I wasn't sure if this was a server or client issue.
>
> However, I don't think this is so trivial. I can undo anything manually,
> but MS rightly saw fit to automate it. I have a dozen such fields that
> might
> be updated in one go, so going back and manually undoing them is not so
> trivial, even if I know that "Undo Project Information" has only done half
> the job.
>
> Thanks for your quick response, I'll take it up with MS.
>
> Neil A.
>
> "Dale Howard [MVP]" wrote:
>
>> Neil --
>>
>> In the future, please post your Project Server questions in the
>> microsoft.public.project.server newsgroup, as this newsgroup is dedicated
>> to
>> the Microsoft Project desktop application only. Regarding the Undo
>> situation, I'm not sure I would call this either a bug or an issue. And
>> believe me, even if Microsoft did consider this a bug, this is so minor
>> that
>> I would doubt they would ever fix it. I mean, it's simple enough for
>> your
>> users go back into the Project Information dialog to change their custom
>> field value selections, if necessary. Hope this helps.
>>
>> --
>> Dale A. Howard [MVP]
>> VP of Educational Services
>> msProjectExperts
>> http://www.msprojectexperts.com
>> http://www.projectserverexperts.com
>> "We write the books on Project Server"
>>
>>
>> "Neil A" <NeilA@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:CAB51A7B-0EF5-494E-93BE-87993CFEF032@microsoft.com...
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > In Project 2007, I have defined a number of project level enterprise
>> > fields,
>> > used to track things like the customer and project status. Some of
>> > these
>> > have lookup tables, some are free text. Users change the value of
>> > these
>> > fields via the Project Information Form.
>> >
>> > If the user changes a free text field and presses OK, they get an entry
>> > under the Edit menu "Undo Project Information". However, if they
>> > change a
>> > field that has a lookup table, no such undo option is created. If they
>> > change a free text field and a lookup table field, and press "Undo
>> > Project
>> > Information", the free text field is undone, but the lookup table field
>> > change is not.
>> >
>> > Is this a known bug? Is there any known fix/workaround?
>> >
>> > Neil A
>>
>>
>>



RE: Undo project level enterprise custom field changes by NeilA

NeilA
Wed Nov 21 12:57:00 PST 2007

Though not stated, this problem appears to be fixed by this hotfix:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/937907/en-us

"Neil A" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> In Project 2007, I have defined a number of project level enterprise fields,
> used to track things like the customer and project status. Some of these
> have lookup tables, some are free text. Users change the value of these
> fields via the Project Information Form.
>
> If the user changes a free text field and presses OK, they get an entry
> under the Edit menu "Undo Project Information". However, if they change a
> field that has a lookup table, no such undo option is created. If they
> change a free text field and a lookup table field, and press "Undo Project
> Information", the free text field is undone, but the lookup table field
> change is not.
>
> Is this a known bug? Is there any known fix/workaround?
>
> Neil A