Adnan Ahmed (SharePoint Architect)

This is a common problem notified by our clients that some of the users are facing this issue. When they try to save a project from MS Project Professional 2007, Project Professional crashes and Project Manager cannot open the same the project in editable mode again. Inspite of forcing the project to Checked In back to the server, Queue job fails to complete its operation. As a result, user cannot work on the project.

 

One of my colleague Liam McCambride, found a solution to this problem. This problem occured, when you use graphical indicator in the project plan. This is a bug in the Project Professional 2007 and hopefully will be resolved in the next service pack :(

The only solution for this issue is to create a new project in the project without any graphical indicator column and use it for saving a project to the server. You can still use a view with graphical indicator for viewing a project plan.