circular links

[Joy]

For projects with hierarchical structures, is there any good way to spot
circular links and indicate the task/task-id that is causing this.

 

[Gary L. Chefetz]

Joy:

I'm not sure that this is a developer question, however VBA macros can help
you trace predecessor/successor relationships. Are you talking about
circular relationships within a single project, or across linked projects?
There are better ways to avoid these than are ways to detect and cure them.
Some simple rules:

Build a well structured plan that flows from top to bottom (avoid spaghetti
linking)
Do not link from or to summary tasks (Probably the biggest culprit in
creating circular relationship within plans)

 

[Joy]

Gary
Thank you for the reply.
I am talking about across linked projects. We are thinking of writing some
macros to help users to effectively find the root task that causes circular
links errors.
It is usually hard to find and correct them for extremely large projects.