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"You cannot modify this Cost Category ID" when selecting a cost catagory from the find window in the PA Project Budget window.

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I am trying to create a macro in GP2013 SP1 for deleting cost catagories from the PA Project Budget window.  When I point to the cost catagory in the Project Budget window to delete, the macro records a 3 field key - Project ID, Seq no., cost catagory - instead of just the cost catagory.  It looks like this:

# Key 2: '1000040', '4', 'PROFACSCREDCARD'

I want to mail merge a large file with just the Project ID and cost catagory so I want to create a macro that just looks at the cost catagory.  I tried using the Find window but when I finf the cost catagory and select it, I get a warning:

17:20:04  'Lookup_Window_Name Select Button_CHG on form PA_Cost_Category_Lookup1'

17:20:04  'PA_Budget_Maintenance_Scroll2 PA Cost Category ID_CHG on form PA_Budget_Maintenance'

17:20:04  'PA_Warning_Dialog', "You cannot modify this Cost Category ID."

If I click past the warning I am able to use Edit > Delete Row to delete the cost catagory so I do not understand what is causing the warning.  A Dex SQL Log does not show anything meaningful.

Is there any way around this warning or is there a way for me to isolate the cost catagory in this macro so I can run a mail merge?  Thanks for your feedback.

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  • Heather Roggeveen Profile Picture
    9,150 on at

    Hi

    Is the sequence number related to the Cost Category?  I.e. every time PROFACSCREDCARD cost category is used, it is sequence number 4?  If so, you could add the sequence number into the macro to merge.

    Otherwise I am not able to help in this area - done lots of mail merge macros, but not in projects.

    Cheers

    Heather

  • soma Profile Picture
    24,416 on at

    Are you able to manually delete the cost category id without warning?

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