Project Error Message

[Andrew Bettcher]

Hi,

I've had to fiddle around with the project form to accomodate a new business process that is due to come in. Everything has gone OK and I've been able to make the form do what I need it to do. However, when I create a new Project Task, I get two different error messages.

If the parent project is set to Manual calculation, the error message reads:

Error: PRJXXXXXXX can not be the New Parent to <sub_task name>

Invalid Insert

If the parent project is set to Automatic calculation, the error message reads:

Auto Projects can not change calculation

Invalid Insert

In both cases, the project task is inserted and everything appears to work OK from then on but I want to find out why this is happening. 

Most of the changes I have made involve removing fields particularly project date fields. I added them back and made them invisible on the form in case they were needed for something in the backend but issue still exists.

Can anyone help?

Ideally we could dispose of auto and manual calculation and simply force one or the other but this area is so complicated!!!

[sachin_namjoshi · Accepted solution]

These errors are handled in OOB business rule.

Error: PRJXXXXXXX can not be the New Parent to <sub_task name>

--> This is handled in business rule "Validate change parent".

Auto Projects can not change calculation

--> This is handled in business rule "ProjectWorkbenchPhaseValidationAndUpdate"

Both of these errors occurs when project and project task calculation doesn't match.

You should set project calculation to manual to get rid of these errors.

Regards,

Sachin

[Wade Clairmont]

Hey there,

So what causes this error when both projects have exactly the same preferences?

Any thoughts I am sure would be helpful.

Thanks in advance,

Wade

[Lbec]

Hello,

did you find the solution to this? It also generates that error when it has the same calculation

[Nihar7]

Hi Sachin, 

I made the changes in Project and Project task to set it to manual, still I am receiving below error. 

"Error: PRJXXXXXXX can not be the New Parent to <sub_task name>"

Any other steps need to take here?