Project integration becomes useless

Question

Everything in the export works fine, and several refreshes work fine as well. Then for some reason the file becomes basically useless due to an error stating : “This field is read-only, the value will be reset”. This repeats N times (where N is the number of new items being pulled down from TFS or sometimes this is the number of items in the file). At the end there are numerous items with no Work ID anymore. Here's the mapping file contents. Can anyone help say what's happening and point to a fix?

 

  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>

- <MSProject>

- <Mappings>

  <Mapping WorkItemTrackingFieldReferenceName="System.Id" ProjectField="pjTaskText10" ProjectName="Work Item ID" />

  <Mapping WorkItemTrackingFieldReferenceName="System.State" ProjectField="pjTaskText13" ProjectName="State" />

  <Mapping WorkItemTrackingFieldReferenceName="System.Reason" ProjectField="pjTaskText14" />

  <Mapping WorkItemTrackingFieldReferenceName="Microsoft.UC.TaskType" ProjectField="pjTaskText15" ProjectName="Task Type" />

  <Mapping WorkItemTrackingFieldReferenceName="System.Rev" ProjectField="pjTaskText23" />

  <Mapping WorkItemTrackingFieldReferenceName="System.WorkItemType" ProjectField="pjTaskText24" />

  <SyncField ProjectField="pjTaskText25" />

  <LinksField ProjectField="pjTaskText26" />

<<Mapping WorkItemTrackingFieldReferenceName="System.AssignedTo" ProjectField="pjTaskResourceNames" />

  <Mapping WorkItemTrackingFieldReferenceName="System.Title" ProjectField="pjTaskName" />

  <Mapping WorkItemTrackingFieldReferenceName="Microsoft.VSTS.Scheduling.CompletedWork" ProjectField="pjTaskActualWork" ProjectUnits="pjHour" />

  <Mapping WorkItemTrackingFieldReferenceName="Microsoft.VSTS.Scheduling.RemainingWork" ProjectField="pjTaskRemainingWork" ProjectUnits="pjHour" />

  <Mapping WorkItemTrackingFieldReferenceName="Microsoft.UC.OrigEst" ProjectField="pjTaskBaselineWork" ProjectUnits="pjHour" ProjectName="Original Estimate" />

  <Mapping WorkItemTrackingFieldReferenceName="Microsoft.VSTS.Scheduling.StartDate" ProjectField="pjTaskStart" PublishOnly="false" />

  <Mapping WorkItemTrackingFieldReferenceName="Microsoft.VSTS.Scheduling.FinishDate" ProjectField="pjTaskFinish" PublishOnly="false" />

  <Mapping WorkItemTrackingFieldReferenceName="System.AreaPath" ProjectField="pjTaskOutlineCode9" />

  <Mapping WorkItemTrackingFieldReferenceName="System.IterationPath" ProjectField="pjTaskOutlineCode10" />

  <ContextField WorkItemTrackingFieldReferenceName="Microsoft.VSTS.Scheduling.TaskHierarchy" />

  </Mappings>

  </MSProject>

Answer 1

Hello Marlin7,

 

  Does this link works?

 

  http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=3022615&SiteID=1

 

 Thanks.

Answer 2

We are experiencing the same issue described in this thread. We are not trying to syncronize with Project Server, it is just setup as part of the old process before we started trying to use work items in project.

 

we have two machines we are testing on. my machine is project 2003 sp2 and has no issues. another is project 2003 sp3 and has had the issues with two different projects.

 

i've tried disabling project server integration (not sure if i did this right) to see if the problem goes away with no luck.

 

please help

 

thanks,

 

steve

Answer 3

We are not using Project Server, so No, "the link doesn't work".