Hi Chris and all,
TYVM for the ballot's link but
that thread is now locked (probably 'cause Ballots "evolved" to something else)
don't you feel is it enough time, for a feature requested by many customers (as it's useful for sure, no doubts) to be still not present since Sep 2007? Are not 17 years "enough" to add a flag into EG's Tools > Options > Project and Process Flow section?
to all what other customers mentioned already, I would add another good reason why we (really) need to be able to turn that flag off "by default" even before than to open a project (which means in the .egp file's properties or, as it was told already, have it already turned off so that the opening project won't automatically switch it on): I'm migrating some projects from a SAS application server to another. A step I need to perform is Project Management: given my projects have all the AutoArrange turned off at migration start, when the Project Management works on them, to adapt to the new application server, it also switch the flag on (which, I believe, it's nothing else than a BUG😞 at that point it saves and reopens the project, so I've NO way to turn the flag off before the "feature" totally re-arranges (scrambling them) all my tasks (and that in ALL the workflows, not in the first one only). If the AutoArrange worked well it wasn't that Big Problem... but it doesn't! What I'm seeing is tasks moved to the wrong positions, and we all know that, in EG, the tasks execution order IS positional. Last but not least: if the problem involved the first workflow only it was (still annoying but) bearable, but it's NOT that way you told, sorry to say: I turn AutoArrange OFF in the 1st workflow, only to discover it's already ON in the 2nd (which then becomes totally scrambled... I'm speaking about a workflow having 50-60 tasks, to manually re-arrange... not exactly 10 minutes, and the project have like 10 workflows). That's a BIG problem, to us.
Such Big Problem could be avoided totally just adding a "global flag" in the Options, so that an "incoming project" I upload (or a new project I create) have such flag set to OFF and remaining OFF 'till I'll manually turn it ON. I believe, in 17 years, one can program such "monster change" into EG without too much problems (but saving us to have them).
Thanks for reading, I would prefer to have updated the ballot's thread but, as I told, it's locked.
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