Unassigned Resources and Project Templates #projectserver2013

Quick publish on this one.

When creating a project from a template (with templated tasks) in PWA, if you assign resources to those tasks via PWA, the assignments appear in the Reporting Database as Unassigned Resource

workaround 1
assign resources via MSP

workaround 2 (varying mileage)
assign resources
Publish
remove resources
publish
reassign resources

tested on SP1, April14CU

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