Error while uploading the MS Project Mapping.xml file

Question

Hello everybody,

Im trying to display the "Description" Field of the work items when in MS Project, what I did is downloaded the Mapping file changed it by addint the following line:

<Mapping WorkItemTrackingFieldReferenceName="System.Description" ProjectField="pjTaskText30" />

And then I get this error, while uploading:

TF82023: The following fields could not be mapped because the field type of the
destination field is incompatible with the field type of the source field:System.Description

Whats wrong here, the System.Description is a String so what's the problem, does not "pjTaskText30" accept strings?
Well, System.Title is also a String and is accepted by the pjTaskText field.

Thank you,
Cheers

Answer 1

See http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=372366&SiteID=1. <I'm afraid that is a limitation of the product.  MS Project only supports fields with <= 255 characters, so we don't allow mapping fields that can contain more than 255 characters (Plaintext, HTML, and History are the unsupported field types).>