TMGR: Grouping Feature Changes the Data You Entered

CAUSE

Microsoft Team Manager automatically categorizes new tasks based upon the category the task is inserted into. This behavior overrides any value you may enter.

Example

If you group the Task Organizer view by the Priority field, the following summaries are displayed, one for each category of Priority:

ID     TASK NAME            Work     Priority

   Priority: Lowest
   Priority: Very low
   Priority: Low
   Priority: Med. low
   Priority: Medium
   Priority: Med. high
   Priority: High
   Priority: Very high
   Priority: Highest
				

If you then create a new task at the bottom of this list, and assign a priority of Medium to this task, the result is as follows:

  ID     TASK NAME            Work     Priority

     Priority: Lowest
     Priority: Very low
     Priority: Low
     Priority: Med. low
     Priority: Medium
     Priority: Med. high
     Priority: High
     Priority: Very high
     Priority: Highest
  1  -  Test                 1 week     Highest
				

NOTE: Microsoft Team Manager automatically assigns the new task the priority equivalent to the category in which the task was placed.