PRJ98: Notes Field Truncated when Using Notes Property in Macro

• Microsoft Project 98 for Windows

SYMPTOMS

In Microsoft Project 98, when you run a Visual Basic macro that uses the Notes property, the notes text result is truncated. The following macro demonstrates this problem:

   Sub test()
      MsgBox ActiveProject.Tasks(1).Notes
   End Sub 

CAUSE

This problem occurs because the notes property returns the first 255 characters entered into the Notes field for a task, a resource, or an assignment.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the versions of Microsoft Project listed above.

This problem was corrected in Microsoft Project 98 for Windows, Service Release 1 (SR-1).

For additional information about obtaining and installing SR-1, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

ARTICLE-ID: Q185102
TITLE : PRJ98: How to Obtain and Install MS Project 98 SR-1

MORE INFORMATION

NOTE: Though this issue is corrected in Microsoft Project 98 SR-1, the message box (msgbox) function allows a maximum length of a prompt of approximately 1024 characters, depending on the width of the characters used.

Additional query words:

Keywords          : kbusage projwin 
Version           : WINDOWS:98
Platform          : WINDOWS 
Issue type        : kbbug 

Last Reviewed: July 19, 1999