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MatthewLi1
MatthewLi1
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May 9, 2024
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Issue Replicating Project Templates in Production from the Sandbox Environment

  • May 9, 2024
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I'm attempting to rebuild templates that I created within my sandbox environment but when I build them in prod the total project duration is completely off. I've included a screenshot below of the template I'm trying to recreate. 

 

As you can see the development & review summary task says the steps will take 60 days in the sandbox but the same template with all the same tasks, durations, task constraints, and predecessors is saying it will take 112 days in production. 

 

Would love to know if anyone has seen issues like this before! I've submitted a support ticket but they haven't responded to any of my emails : P. I'll close this question and include the solution if support is able to figure out what is going on before we can!

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Best answer by MatthewLi1

no worries and good luck with Support. The only other thing I can suggest would be to recalculate the template timeline if you haven't already done this.


Circling back to confirm that I did try recalculating the template timeline. I tried working with support and hopped on a call with them to help them troubleshoot but they don't know what's causing the issue after a month of troubleshooting so it appears this is a bug without any solution

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skyehansen
Community Advisor
skyehansenCommunity Advisor
May 9, 2024

Can you post a screenshot of a view that includes the task constraint, start day, and completion day as well, please.

MatthewLi1
MatthewLi1Author
Level 3
May 9, 2024

Hi @skyehansen, here's a screenshot with those columns! 

Looks like the issue may be with tasks 13 &14 as they are set to as late as possible but not connected by predecessors to the go live which needs to finish at a set time. Regardless though, I'm still confused by why the dates are so different for both.

skyehansen
Community Advisor
skyehansenCommunity Advisor
May 9, 2024

It's difficult to comment accurately on how anything might have happened, since I was not there to witness the actions that led to this point. I think you mentioned that you were talking to Support about this so this is definitely a conversation you can take up with them. Suffice it to say that the reason that Workfront suggests that you make edits to your template by editing a project instead, and then reconvert it back into a template is to avoid issues like this. (They're much easier to spot in project form)

 

For the purpose of fixing your template, I would probably suggest that you try and see if you can change the start and complete day columns through inline editing.

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