PRJ2000: Percent Complete or Duration Change When You Change Task Type (245944)


The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Project 2000
This article was previously published under Q245944

SYMPTOMS

In Microsoft Project, when you change the Task type setting for a task, the task's % Complete, Actual Work, Remaining Work, and Duration fields may change as follows: 

Original     New          Duration  % Complete  Actual Work  Remaining Work
task type    task type    change    change      change       change
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Fixed        Fixed Work,  None      Increase    Increase     Decrease
Duration     Fixed Units

Fixed Work,  Fixed        Increase  Decrease    None         None
Fixed Units  Duration

CAUSE

This behavior may occur when the following conditions are true:
  • You change the Task type setting for a task as follows:

    • from Fixed Duration, to Fixed Work or Fixed Units

      -or-

    • from Fixed Work or Fixed Units, to Fixed Duration

  • The task % Complete field is greater than zero.
  • The task Actual Work field is greater than zero.
  • A resource is assigned to the task.

WORKAROUND

To work around this behavior, do not change the task type for a task while the task percentage complete is greater than zero.
Modification Type:MajorLast Reviewed:10/17/2002
Keywords:kbbug KB245944
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