master plan conflict

[Not-a-nerd-Naomi]

I created a master plan from all various individual plans at my office.
In the meantime someone across the office opened his plan (which was
included in my master) to work on it, not knowing about my work. It
looks like he was able to open it without conflict while I had the
master open because I saw he had it "checked out". Should he have seen
it was read-write only?

Thanks for elucidating.
Naomi

 

[Gary L. Chefetz [MVP]]

Simply opening the Master plan does not checkout the subprojects. You must
expand the subprojects for this to happen. Does this potentially describe
the disconnect you're reporting?

 

[Naomi Nissen]

Yes, I had expanded them to see the details. It then asked me if I
wanted to save every single one. I'll collapse them and try again.

Thanks...
Naomi

 

[Naomi Nissen]

Gary,

I fiddled with expanding and collapsing subprojects. Here are the
results:

1. When I open the master plan (and all the sub-projects are expanded
as you described below) they do not appear as checked out in web access
admin. Why would this be different from what you said?

2. When I collapsed them and tried to save, I got a warning on each
subproject: read-write only, save as another name. I chose not to save
them. Why did that happen?

BTW I do not edit the subprojects generally speaking. I may only
replace the occasional local name with an enterprise name, do clean up
like that.

Thanks for your feedback. Naomi