Tasks without assignments are getting converted to Milestones
Pre- requisite:
1. Create a Project
2. Create few Tasks as mentioned below
a. Create a 1 day, (say Test Duration Task 1) task without assignment
b. Create a 2 days, (say Test Duration Task 2) tasks with assignments (which has ETC as 0)
c. Create a 2 days, (say Test Duration Task 3) tasks without assignments
Also, have below MSP Field mapping in PPM
prDuration = Duration1
Steps:
1. Open the created project in MSP
2. 1 day task (Test Duration Task 1) displays incorrectly as a Milestone with a change in duration value.
2 days task with assignment (Test Duration Task 2) displays correctly as a Milestone, but the duration gets changed.
2 days task without assignment (Test Duration Task 3) displays correctly with no change in duration.
3. Save the project from MSP (without doing any changes) --- All the tasks duration gets changed to 0 (zero).
4. Open the same project again in MSP
Expected Result:
Only task with assignment (with ETC =0) should be shown as Milestone
Actual Result:
All the tasks are shown as Milestones.
Release: 451-101-15.1-Clarity-Creator User License
Component:
Reason:
This is because prDuration is wrongly mapped with Duration1 (MSP Field) in PPM Application under Administration-->MSP Field Mappings. With this, whenever we are saving the Project from MSP, the task duration is getting changed to 0 and when we open the same project in MSP for the second time, it is being shown as Milestone (as all the 0 duration tasks are shown as Milestone in MSP).
Note: Included the screens for better understanding
Resolution:
As duration is a number, we should map prDuration with Number not with Duration.
The mapping should be as shown below:
prDuration = Number1 (or any thing from Number 1..20)
Ref: Correct_Mapping.PNG
MSP Field Name Indicates the Microsoft Project field name that you want to map to the CA PPM attribute.
Text and Lookup String fields: Use Text4 to Text30
Boolean fields: Use Flag2 to Flag20
Number fields: Use Number1 to Number20
Date fields: Use Date1 to Date10
those are the only MSP fields you can map to