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Synchronization
Release Notes
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- MS Project must have been
previously installed and activated before synchronizing with
TD Project. Failing to use an activated version will cause
run-time
errors.
- If you use commas in Resource names when inputting them in
TD project, since MS Windows uses the comma as the default separator
value, when you sync out to MS Project the commas will be seen
as separators for different resource names. Hence, "Smith,
John" would become two resources "Smith" and "John".
- If a user leaves a dialog
open in MS Project, including the Print Preview screen, and
then initiates synchronization with TD Project, the synchronization
fails. Make sure that there are no Microsoft dialogs up before
you synchronize with TD Project.
- It may seem
that the synching process has frozen. If this happens check
to see that there is not a MS Project dialog behind the TD
Project window
waiting for user input. This
seems
to
happen
more
often when using a French Windows setup. Once you respond
to this dialog
the synch will complete normally.
- Synchronization only
works with mpp files. No other MS Project formats are supported.
- No sub-task link
checks are performed for predecessors outside of the scope
of the Summary Task for which synchronization is being performed.
This may create a problem when synching from TD Project to
an MS Project file in that a sub-task could be made to start
earlier than if the out-of-scope predecessors date constraints
were applied.
- If an error occurs
when going from TD Project to MS Project, a dialog is displayed
listing the task and action that encountered the error. The
error message for each error is also listed. This allows the
user the chance to cancel the changes made to their MS Project
file.
This is not true when synchronizing
in the reverse direction – there is no opportunity to
cancel when synchronizing from MS Project to TD Project
- If the Task Type
in MS Project is not set to Fixed Duration and you are utilizing
resource units not set to 100%, then synchronizing a project
back out to MS Project may cause start and end dates for that
task to change unexpectedly.
- Task notes may be
synchronized between MS Project and TD Project if the user
selects to do so. However, formatting and any objects--such
as files--associated with the notes will not be retained in
the TD Project notes. If you then synch back out to the MS
Project file--and select to synch the task notes--then all
the objects and formatting associated with the notes will be
removed from the MS Project file as well.
- Files associated
with a task in TD Project are not transferred to MS Project.
- Pictures inserted in
the MS Project Gantt chart will not synchronize with TD Project.
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