Use Project Diagnostics to detect corrupt project data

Project Diagnostics uses the Application Diagnostics Tool to detect corrupt data in a project, such as tasks with invalid parents, tasks without top tasks, and invalid or cyclic relations in a project.

Before you begin

Role required: it_pps_admin

About this task

Project Diagnostics can also detect whether date calculations in a project appear to be incorrect, the planning console does not open for a project, or a few tasks or relationships do not appear in the planning console.

Procedure

1. Determine whether you want to run a diagnostic scan on a single project or multiple projects.

   Scope	Steps
   All Projects	Navigate to Project Administration > Project Diagnostics.
   Single Project	Navigate to Project > Projects > All. Select the project. On the Project form, click the Project Diagnostics related link.

2. On the Application Diagnostics Tool page, select a diagnostic feature.
3. Use the Feature Inputs fields to specify filter conditions.
4. From the Diagnostics section, run a single diagnostic scan or multiple scans on the projects matching the filter criteria.

   Task	Steps
   Run multiple diagnostic scans	Select the diagnostic scans that you want to run on the filtered projects. Click Run Diagnostics at the top-right corner of the page.
   Run a specific diagnostic scan	Select the single diagnostic scan that you want to run on the filtered projects. Click Run Diagnosis.

5. View the results of the scans.

What to do next

Add your own diagnostic scans and fix scripts.