Finish date deleted automatically

If I delete a resource from a taks that is marked as finish, Project automatically (sometimes) marks the task as unfinished.
Is there any way to keep Project from trying to be too clever? In most cases there was minimal or no work needed, or done by someone else.. this does not matter as the task is finished and I'm only using Project for planning.
Valgardur Gudjonsson

Hi Valgardur,
I've never heard of such a bug. Nevertheless MS Project has a powerful scheduling engine that requires to follow scheduling best practices. Such as not deleting a resource assigned on a task with actual work which results in loosing the actual.
That being said, many parameters could create such an unexpected behavior such as the task type (fixed work or duration), constraints on the start date, deleting actual start and finish dates, other resources assined on the same task, new task
creation date parameter (project start or current date), ...
If you're willing to dig into this issue, please send me your file at guillaumeDOTrouyreATgcosiDOTcom (replace caps) with some more details and I'll be pleased to investigate.
Hope this helps,
Guillaume Rouyre, MBA, MCP, MCTS |

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