MUX: Negative allocations accepted on Project Staff module

Products

• Clarity PPM On Premise
• Clarity PPM SaaS

Issue/Introduction

We have detected negative allocations on some projects, how can it be possible?

STEPS TO REPRODUCE

1. Go to Classic UI
2. Open a project and go to the Team Detail tab
3. On the Allocation By Period field, Allocation and/or Hard Allocation TSV cells enter a negative value 
4. You get an error: Valid range for Allocation is 0 - 99999999999 / Valid range for Hard Allocation is 0 - 99999999999
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5. Go to the Modern UX, same project, Staff tab
6. Show Per Period Metrics for Allocation and Hard Allocation
7. Enter a negative value

Expected results: Error to be thrown: Valid range for Allocation is 0 - 99999999999 / Valid range for Hard Allocation is 0 - 99999999999

Actual results: Negative values get saved

Environment

Clarity 15.9.3, 16.0, 16.0.1

Cause

This is caused by DE65820

Resolution

This is fixed in 16.1.0 and backported to 16.0.3 patch 3.

Additional Information

In 15.9.3 you can not enter negative allocation in MUX, but you can add negative hard allocation. There is validation for the negative allocation field.

In 16.X there is no validation for any other fields and negative values are accepted