PRJ98: Indicator Column Displays Inserted Project Is Not Valid

• Microsoft Project 98 for Windows

SYMPTOMS

In Microsoft Project 98, when you open a consolidated project, cross- project links or inserted project links may become disabled. In addition, an indicator with the following message may appear in the Indicator column:

This inserted project, <path>\<file name>, is not valid. A project can be inserted only once in a consolidated project.

CAUSE

This error message may occur when the following conditions are true:

• You open a consolidated project.



• The consolidated project is the source of resource sharing for the projects that are inserted in it.



• You have moved the consolidated project and inserted projects to different folders two or more times.



• After you moved the projects each time, you did the following:



1. You opened the resource pool with Read/Write access.



2. You chose not to open other files.



3. You saved the projects.

RESOLUTION

To correct this problem, install Microsoft Project 98 for Windows Service Release 1 (SR-1).


To work around this problem, do not move the files using Windows Explorer or programs other than Microsoft Project. Instead, save the projects to a new location.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.

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

Additional query words:

Keywords          : kberrmsg kbdta projwin 
Version           : WINDOWS:98
Platform          : WINDOWS 
Issue type        : kbbug 

Last Reviewed: July 13, 1999