[Project Operations Error] – Project Task Issue.

Recently i found one issue while working on Project Task,

When i created on Project i added some resource and also wanted to assign some task to those resource.

I added one task, assigned to one resource and added that task to one bucket called “To-Do” and was able to add it successfully.

And then while adding another resource, i got some strange error. i give my so many hours to jut find out what the error is.

Error on Task screen is so generic , no one can identify just by looking at error message.

Error Says : “Recent Changes you’ve made couldn’t be saved. Refresh the page to undo your changes and continue working. Details“

Resolution :
First we need to find what the error is, As task grid contains so many details in it.
Any error related to project are tracked in Settings area.

I opened the record for which i was getting error, lookup via project name.

Here i found the error for same. it says

“msdyn_projectbucket With Id = d128a613-507f-ec11-a810-000d3ab16afa Does Not Exist”

So now question comes is why project task is throwing error while creating task of not able to find project bucket with specified ID?
Answer is : Project for Web

This is because of Display order in Project Bucket record and it was trying to reference some project bucket was not in system, and when i tried to advance find all task for specified project i was able to find two task which i created.

But the Id of both the above projectbucket dint matched with Error projectbucket id.
So it seems some record is corrupted or deleted by someone.

basically when we try to add new task, it default the bucket value based on display order,

and tries to match with older record which was deleted, so only option we left is to delete the To-Do Project bucket and create again
So i tried to Delete the Project bucket from screen that is also not allowed to delete.

We’re sorry. You cannot directly do ‘Delete’ operation to ‘msdyn_projectbucket’. Try editing it through the Resource editing UI via Project.

To Delete Bucket, Simple go to Task and visit Board tab and delete from here.

I deleted old To-Do and created new To-Do bucket and now when i got to task and try to create task, it works fine

So in this blog we solve three issues.

1. How to find actual error message for error shown on task grid which is generic.
2. How to resolve Project bucket reference issue in project task
3. How to delete project bucket.

Hope it helps, Keep sharing knowledge.