Master Project / Subproject relationship - PWA

[John Horton]

For a weekly meeting I need to be able to open multiple projects at once,
sort tasks across projects, edit and then save. When I open multiple projects
from PWA I get a Master Project / Subproject relationship by default (I
Guess). This is fine but after the meeting I have to deal with it.

I have two problems with this.

First of all the projects that are now subprojects are now invisible in PWA
(but not always?). Of course I can still open them from MSP but that is not
what I need.

The other issue is that if I want to uncouple the projects I have to go in
to the properties of each subproject to do it. (Pain the …..)

Ideas?

 

[John Horton]

For a weekly meeting I need to be able to open multiple projects at once,
sort tasks across projects, edit and then save. When I open multiple projects
from PWA I get a Master Project / Subproject relationship by default (I
Guess). This is fine but after the meeting I have to deal with it.

I have two problems with this.

First of all the projects that are now subprojects are now invisible in PWA
(but not always?). Of course I can still open them from MSP but that is not
what I need.

The other issue is that if I want to uncouple the projects I have to go in
to the properties of each subproject to do it. (Pain the …..)

Ideas?

 

[Ben Howard]

Hi John,
I suspect you are seeing a problem as the actual master project is not
really a programme, and you are saving and publishing it to the database.
Ideally, you should save the master as an MPP file on the desktop/network
drive.

If you need to open them for read only, then you can create a temp master
project with the inserted sub projects (note the options when you do Insert |
Project, make sure they are opened for read only), and then save the new
master project as an MPP file (save AS), and put is on a network drive etc.

If you need to edit and publish the inserted projects, do as above, but make
sure that they are not read only. Project will ask whether you want to save
the inserted projects - answer yes. You may then need to publish them after
that, it is not something I have checked.

HTH

 

[John Horton]

-OK that is really COOL. Way Better. I really wish this would Publish and
Check-in all the files but this is better then nothing.

 

[Ben Howard]

Hi John,
As you say, better than nothing.