Master Project Dependency Functionality

[tdbcalif]

I am thinking about using a master project to consolidate approx. 10
individual plans.
I'm testing the updating process and have some questions, specifically
around dependencies:
Background:
Currently, the 10 different plans are updated and submitted to me each week.
I have created a network folder that will store the master plan and the most
recent 10 subproject plans. (Unfortunately, not everyone has access to the
network, so the 10 individual plans will be emailed to me and I will save to
the network folder)
Scenario:
Master Plan, Plan A and Plan B and Task # x in Plan B has an external
dependency on Task # y in Plan.
New Plans A and B are submitted. I overwrite the existing Plans A & B in the
network folder with the new Plans.
Task # Y in Plan B is now Task # Y + 1 due to a new task being inserted.
I open the Master plan and the external dependency link is maintained even
though the new plan # B does not have the dependency.
Question:
I set up the dependency in the master plan, but I overwrote the old Plan B
with the new Plan B, which does not have the external dependency defined in
it, so I expected the link to be lost.
How does this work?

Thanks!


Thanks

 

[JackD]

The link is not to a certain line number. It is to a specific task (I
believe it uses the Unique ID)

The master plan contains no dependencies (regardless of whether it was where
you created the dependencies between sub-projects)

The basic process is that each project has a link which points to the other
project that it is linked to. When they are opened up, they try and
reconnect. I believe that there are some processes which go on automatically
to try and resolve the links if things have changed (file location etc.) but
I don't know that the details of those processes have been made public.

 

[tdbcalif]

Thanks for the input.
I thought it was controlled from the master plan.
What you said makes sense. In the scenario that I described, the link was
probably restored from Plan A. So, in theory, as long as I don't replace the
individual plans at the same time, the links should rebuild when I open the
master plan.
Cheers
Troy

 

[JackD]

As long as the individual plans are just updated versions of the previous
individual plan you should be OK. If they are totally new, then you can
expect that things will get screwed up sooner or later.