Wednesday, July 07, 2010

Did you know? Task custom field calculations in PS 2010

I just stumbled across a 2010 limitation that I have not seen before. When creating task custom field formulas, PS will give you a nice red warning to have less than 5 task formulas due to potential performance issues. I believe that this is only a very general guideline, but certainly enough to have Microsoft warn you.

I will struggle at times to obey to this rule since I often use calculations within task custom fields, so EPM’es be aware and let me know if you have come across performance issues when using more than 5 task custom field formulas.

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2 comments:

Geoff Higgins said...

Thanks Marc. I may have come across this problem trying to build a formula for calculating Risk Significance (with many components). I am not sure, as I am using VPN and Remote Desktop, instead of the error being spelt out, I receive a generic Runtime Error. I have rebuilt with less than 5 formulas, and no error. Now I just need to get the updated Project Site template to activate/register, so I can run the updates.

...Geoff

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