Cancels in Project Queue Manager

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    • #4868
      Robert Thomas
      Keymaster
      Has anyone had the “cancelled” action appear in the queue manager after updating, saving, and publishing a project?  Any resolutions?
    • #6070
      Robert Thomas
      Keymaster

      Hi Tom, the only time that I personally have seen cancel appear is when I or someone with the necessary security has cancelled a queue task or canceled a queue task that was in the same stream.  on the queue can you scroll to the right and view the inforamation that you can link to?

    • #6106
      Robert Thomas
      Keymaster

      Thanks for the reply Richard.  However, it appears that the October CU for MS Project Pro 2007 was the culprit.  This release fixed my out-of-sync issue, but caused the cancels to start.  I had to back out.  I have reopened the ticket and am working with MS on the resolution.

    • #6311
      Robert Thomas
      Keymaster
      I realize this is a late response, but yes, I have noticed "cancels" coming in at different times with certain operations are performed.
      Not sure if you were able to make any headway in investigating this as to why you are seeing cancels popup, but here are some of the reasons why I (believe) they occurred in my case:
      • The Project Server administrator actually “cancelled” the queue job from the Manage Queue page.
      • Project Server found redundant jobs in the queue applied its internal “optimization” algorithm that will cancel the redundant job so it does not waste time and moves directly to the job it determines is necessary to preserve data integrity.
        •  For example, if you save three times, Project Queue will process each of these 3 saves b/c it does an “incremental” save and must allow each one to complete before any other jobs for that particular project file are processed.
        • Now, if a save if done followed by a publish, and then another save is done, followed by another publish, the Project Queue “optimizes” this situation based on its internal data integrity engine and will process the first save, cancel the first publish, process the second save, and then process the second publish.
      • The last situation I can think of is if you are experiencing cancels on your check-in jobs.  This from what I’ve seen usually points to a SQL Server contention and may be resolved by increasing the SQL Retry interval in the Project Server Queue Settings page.

      Hope this was helpful,

      Matt Rondeau

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