Use Project Diagnostics to detect corrupt project data

Project Diagnostics uses the Application Diagnostics Tool to detect corrupt project data. Examples include tasks with invalid parents, tasks without top tasks, and invalid or cyclic relations.

Before you begin

Role required: it_pps_admin

About this task

Project Diagnostics can also detect whether date calculations in a project appear to be incorrect. It can also identify when the planning console does not open for a project or when tasks or relationships don’t appear in the planning console.

Procedure

1. Determine whether you want to run a diagnostic scan on a single project or multiple projects.

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Scope

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Steps

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All Projects

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Navigate to All > Project Administration > Project Diagnostics.

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Single Project

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1. Navigate to All > Project > Projects > All.

2. Select the project.

3. On the Project form, select the Project Diagnostics related link.

</td></tr></tbody> </table>2. On the Application Diagnostics Tool page, select a diagnostic feature.

1. Use the Feature Inputs fields to specify filter conditions.

2. From the Diagnostics section, run a single diagnostic scan or multiple scans on the projects matching the filter criteria.

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Task

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Run multiple diagnostic scans

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1. Select the diagnostic scans that you want to run on the filtered projects.

2. Select Run Diagnostics at the top-right corner of the page.

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Run a specific diagnostic scan

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1. Select the single diagnostic scan that you want to run on the filtered projects.

2. Select Run Diagnosis.

</td></tr></tbody> </table>5. View the results of the scans.

What to do next

Add your own diagnostic scans and fix scripts.