Missing values of Enterprise Custom Field in Project Professional and Project Web Access

Hi all,
In Project Server 2010 SP2 we created a custom field called Iteration Path (without a lookup table).
We're in an environment where Project Server task data gets synched from TFS and we've mapped the Iteration Path from TFS to the Enterprise Custom Field in Project Server.
We've triggered synch of all synchronized work items from TFS to Project Server
Then, in the database we can see the Iteration Path values coming across
When I open these projects in Project Profssional, the entire column of Iteration Path is empty.
When I open these projects in Project Web App (from Project Center), the entire column of Iteration Path is empty.
When I open the master project which contains all these projects, no values are shown.
Any ideas what can be wrong?
I did already clear my cache, global.mpt, but nothing changed. We don't have this issue with other Enterprise Custom Fields that are mapped to TFS fields.
Cheers,
Bram
www.projectexpert.nu

Hi Bram,
In the 4th item, when you say "database", which one are you talking about? Project Server DB? Draft or reporting DB?
If the value are not showing up in Project Pro, it is no need to clean your cache, since the value are obviously not stored in the Project Server Draft DB. The issue is more likely to come from the TFS sync for this particular field. Do you have any logs
for the sync process? If your field in anyway different from the others, containing specific characters?
Hope this helps.
Guillaume Rouyre - MBA, MCP, MCTS

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