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tracking changes--milestones and task predecessors

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So, in the last two days I have been called in to investigate two instances of things not appearing as expected in WF.  Both instances were the result of folks making changes to task lists--specifically, deleting tasks--after projects were launched.

One instance resulted in the deletion of milestones.  I see that Milestone ID is an available task field that can be tracked in Update Feeds.  Does anyone know if the Milestone ID (and its removal) will be tracked if its task is deleted altogether?

The second instance is a little more complicated.  We have a number of learning products that are split up between front-end content development module projects (akin to book chapters) and back-end deliverable projects (deliverables made up of one or more content modules).  We use cross-project predecessors on the first task in the latter projects to know when these projects can begin.

Apparently last month changes were made to a couple of modules for a course--some existing tasks (including the close project task) were deleted and replaced with new ones.  This caused the cross-project predecessors pointing to these modules/tasks to be deleted from the initial tasks in the deliverable projects (so, deliverable projects looked like they were ready to launch but weren't).

I don't see anything either in Update Feeds or in Fusion WF triggers to help identify/alert when task predecessors are changed/removed.  Does anyone know if this is possible?

Thanks.

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Kristen, you could through Fusion have a trigger on Template Task ID (assuming this type of task is part of a template) is Changed for the particular key tasks and then have an update Note send to the project that captures the last update, last update by...you could have the note notify you as well so if something go deleted you're notified right away where you could restore if necessary.  Just throwing out some ideas.