PRJ: Task Moves Unexpectedly When Dragging a Task to a New Date
Article ID: 178184
Article Last Modified on 1/22/2007
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Project 2000 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Project 98 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Project 4.0 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Project 4.1 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Project 4.1a
- Microsoft Project 4.0 for Macintosh
This article was previously published under Q178184
SYMPTOMS
In Microsoft Project, when you drag a task to a new date, the task may not
remain at the date you dropped it on, but moves to a future date instead.
CAUSE
This behavior occurs when a resource calendar has exceptions (nonworking
time) for a period that is set as Working time in the project calendar. For
example, a new project has a task with a resource assigned, but the
resource calendar has a week set as Nonworking.
When you drag the task that the resource is assigned to a day that is set
as Nonworking, the task moves to the next possible working day, and no
message appears.
A task cannot be scheduled during a period when the resource assigned to it
has nonworking time.
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the versions of Microsoft
Project listed above.
Additional query words: prj2000
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