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Project for the Web - % complete calc error
Hi, it appears that be the order in which the effort/duration etc. fields are entered/edited, changes the calculation from % of effort completed to a % of time elapsed. When entering a new task, ...
If you give a more precise example JBateman and HannahM89 with full details of the changes made I should be able to explain what is happening and why it is giving the result it is. In my experience the calculations are usually 'correct' but the logic for the correct values isn't always obvious and may not look 'right'. Behind the scenes Project for the web uses the same scheduling engine as the Project desktop application - so tried and trusted for many years, but the more minimal UI in Project for the web sometimes means that there are some assumptions made that can catch you out. Certainly the order of operation is very important to what those assumptions might be.
Brian