Project has a mind of its own!

From: Lamby74 (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 09/28/04 

Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 16:49:55 -0700

it gets weirder yet.....

I took all of your suggestions (or at least, the intent was
there! :-), whether I did it right or not is another story!

I decided to do a test - I started a whole new project and
merely copied the outline of the tasks from the old Project
file - nothing else.

1.I went to Project - Project Information. I put today as
the start date and chose Schedule from : Project Start
Date. calendar = Standard
Closed out.

2. When to View-Resource *** and added one engineer.
Type = Work
Max Units = 1 (it won't let me put 100%, only "1".,
Base Calendar = Standard

3. I went to Gantt view and assigned Durations to all my
subtasks.

4. While remaining in Gantt view, I chose this one
engineer to be assigned to all the subtasks - and not to
any supertasks.

46.5 hours is the total in-reality duration of this
project. Supertask Duration totals add up to be only 40 hours.

Project has not automatically modified dates, and "start"
to "finish" every day says "Tue 9/28/04" all down both of
the columns. So Project has assigned this project to be
completed in one day (impossible for a 46.5 hour project).

I go to Resource *** view, expecting to see my lone
engineer in an overallocation conflict. Nope. There is no
warning exclamation point, the type is the color black (not
red as I should expect).

When there is no conflict, it says there is, and when there
IS a conflict, it indicates that there isn't.

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