Percent Complete problem using delays

Aspose.Tasks Product Family
1

Hello,

I’m having problems assigning a “percent complete” to a task with an assigment.

  • My task.start date is different to its assignement.start, so I must use an assignement.delay to visualise the correct date on MS Project
The problem is:
  • The percent complete doesn’t work if I’m using the assignement.delay!! … I dont know why but the pencent complete is always = 0 on MSProject if I use a delay (even if the xml is correct, and the percent complete is well writen)
  • If I don’t use the assignement.delay but instead a timephasedata = 0, then the percent complete is correct on MSProject but the assignment start date is equal to the task start date which is not what i want


Can you help me with this ? Why I can’t set a percent complet to a task with an assignment delay??? Please verify the xml using MS Project!

Thanks


My code:

Sub testPC()

Dim project As New Aspose.Tasks.Project()

project.StartDate = New DateTime(2014, 9, 1, 8, 0, 0)
'project.FinishDate = New DateTime(2011, 12, 31, 17, 0, 0)
project.MinutesPerDay = 8 * 60
project.MinutesPerWeek = 5 * 8 * 60
project.DaysPerMonth = 20
project.DefaultStartTime = New DateTime(1, 1, 1, 8, 0, 0)
project.DefaultFinishTime = New DateTime(1, 1, 2, 17, 0, 0)
project.DurationFormat = TimeUnitType.Hour
project.WorkFormat = TimeUnitType.Hour
project.CalculateAfterEdit = False
project.Calendar = Calendar.MakeStandardCalendar


Dim res As Aspose.Tasks.Resource = project.AddResource(“person1”)

Dim task As New Aspose.Tasks.Task(“New Task”)
'task = project.AddTask(“New Task”)
task.Uid = 1
task.Id = 1
task.Type = TaskType.FixedDuration
task.Start = New DateTime(2014, 9, 1, 8, 0, 0)
task.Duration = New TimeSpan(64 * 8, 0, 0)
'task.Finish = project.Calendar.GetFinishDateByStartAndWork(task.Start, task.Duration)
task.Finish = New DateTime(2014, 11, 30, 17, 0, 0)
task.DurationFormat = TimeUnitType.Day
task.Calendar = New Calendar(“Standard”)
task.PercentComplete = 35
task.ActualStart = task.Start


Dim ass As New ResourceAssignment(task, res)
ass.Work = New TimeSpan(100, 0, 0)
ass.Start = New DateTime(2014, 10, 1, 8, 0, 0)
ass.Finish = New DateTime(2014, 10, 31, 17, 0, 0)


'ass.Delay = 102960


ass.WorkContour = WorkContourType.Contoured
ass.TimephasedData = New List(Of TimephasedData)()

Dim td As New TimephasedData()
td.Uid = ass.Uid
td.Start = New DateTime(2014, 9, 1, 8, 0, 0)
td.Finish = New DateTime(2014, 9, 30, 17, 0, 0)
td.TimephasedDataType = TimephasedDataType.AssignmentRemainingWork
td.Value = “PT0H0M0S”
td.Unit = TimeUnitType.Month
ass.TimephasedData.Add(td)

td = New TimephasedData()
td.Uid = ass.Uid
td.Start = New DateTime(2014, 10, 1, 8, 0, 0)
td.Finish = New DateTime(2014, 10, 31, 17, 0, 0)
td.TimephasedDataType = TimephasedDataType.AssignmentRemainingWork
td.Value = “PT100H0M0S”
td.Unit = TimeUnitType.Month
ass.TimephasedData.Add(td)


project.RootTask.Children.Add(task)
project.ResourceAssignments.Add(ass)


project.CalcResourceAssignmentUids()
project.CalcResourceAssignmentIds()
project.CalcTaskIds()
project.CalcTaskUids()
project.UpdateReferences()

'Dim fileName = “c:\testing.xml”
project.Save(“c:\testing.xml”, Saving.SaveFileFormat.XML)


End Sub




2

Hi Jerome,

Thank you for writing to Aspose support team.

I have observed that you are using old library which is already revamped. Support for the old library is discontinued and assistance is provided for new library given here.

I have tried to re-produce the issue using new library where percentage is set for a task, to whom a delayed resource is assigned. I am afraid that no issue is observed in the percentage and its set correctly. Could you please re-evaluate your scenario with the new library and let us know the feedback? Please provide complete code using new library for our analysis.

Project project = new Project();
project.Set(Prj.StartDate, DateTime.Now);
Task task = project.RootTask.Children.Add("Task1");

//Set Task Duration
task.Set(Tsk.Duration, project.GetDuration(8, TimeUnitType.Hour));
task.Set(Tsk.Start, new DateTime(2015, 2, 9));
task.Set(Tsk.PercentComplete, 100);

#region [Set Resources]
Resource rsc1 = project.Resources.Add("Resource 1");
rsc1.Set(Rsc.Type, ResourceType.Work);
#endregion [Set Resources]

#region [Set Assignments]
ResourceAssignment assgn = project.ResourceAssignments.Add(task, rsc1);
assgn.Set(Asn.Start,new DateTime(2015, 2, 10,8,0,0));
assgn.Set(Asn.Finish, new DateTime(2015, 2, 10,17,0,0));
#endregion [Set Assignments]

project.Save(@"output.xml", SaveFileFormat.XML);
3

Hi Muhammad, thanks fr you answer

Could you please provide me the .xml file so I can test opening it on MS Project?
Because even if the percentage is set correctly, on MS Project is still zero. could you verify?


Thank you for your help

4

Hi Jerome,


The output XML and snapshot of this file while opening it in MSP 2010 are attached here for your reference which shows the 100% value.

Another calculation issue is observed while assigning the delayed resource to this task. The resource assignment start/end date is not calculated properly. I have logged this issue as TASKS-34070 in our bug tracking system for further investigation by the development team. I shall write here as soon as some feedback is received in this regard.
5

Thanks for your answer.

The problem I’m talking about is setting a percent complete to a Task WITH a delayed assignement.

Setting percetage to a task with a simple assignement works well, but if it is delayed it doesn’t work. Could you verify?

Thank you very much for your help !

6

Hi Jerome,

Currently setting the assignment delay by start is not supported. Howeveer, you can set the delay explicitly. Could you please give a try to the following sample code and let us know the feedback?

Project project = new Project();
Task task = project.RootTask.Children.Add("Task1");
//Set Task Duration
task.Set(Tsk.Duration, project.GetDuration(8, TimeUnitType.Hour));
task.Set(Tsk.Start, new DateTime(2015, 2, 9));
task.Set(Tsk.PercentComplete, 100);
Resource rsc1 = project.Resources.Add("Resource 1");
rsc1.Set(Rsc.Type, ResourceType.Work);
ResourceAssignment assgn = project.ResourceAssignments.Add(task, rsc1);
assgn.Set(Asn.Delay, project.GetDuration(1, TimeUnitType.Day));
Assert.AreEqual(new DateTime(2015, 2, 10, 8, 0, 0), assgn.Get(Asn.Start), "Assignment Start");
Assert.AreEqual(new DateTime(2015, 2, 10, 17, 0, 0), assgn.Get(Asn.Finish), "Assignment Finish");
Assert.AreEqual(project.GetDuration(1), assgn.Get(Asn.Delay), "Assignment Delay");
7

Hi, that’s exaclty what doesn’t wrok for me! Setting an “explicit” delay and setting a percent complete. In MS Projet the percent comple is set to 0 automaticaly no matter if I set it to 100%


8

Hi Jerome,


I have saved the output of the above mentioned code into XML project file and opened it in MS Project. I am afraid that no issue is observed and percent complete is 100 and assignment delay is 1 as shown in attached image. Could you please explain, where the percent complete is displayed as 0? I have used Aspose.Tasks for .NET 8.5.0 during the test.
9

The issues you have found earlier (filed as ) have been fixed in this Aspose.Words for JasperReports 18.3 update.