Finish date cannot be set at project definiton level

Dear Experts,
On creating a project from a simulation, we need to copy some date constraints from the simulation into the new project. One of this is the finish constraint at project definition level.
While we got all of the other dates to be copied correctly, the finish constraint is not getting correctly populated by using DPR_ATTRIBUTES exit.
Do you have any other ideas on why is this happening for this specific attribute or how can we fill it in?
Thanks in advance!
Neil
Edit: It seems like the BADI is not working fine for the Project Definition attributes. Has any of you experienced the same issue?
Edited by: Neil Billqvist on Apr 13, 2011 9:45 AM

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