Planning offline and resource names

[J Burford Fields]

This might be a better question for the more general MS Project group,
but let me start, here.

I have a blank project saved with enterprise global resources, offline.

Various project leaders have off line copies of project plans that they
have created without using the global resources.

I want to bring them into a master plan, one at a time then manually
level them. I would do this on the server, using the planned booking
and the modeler, if analysis services were installed and the current
implimentation had the capacity. Instead, I'm trying to do them
off-line with a view toward importing them into a future, project
server system that might have resources migrated from the current
enterprise global.

When I put off-line copies together, I see multiple listings for
resources in the Resource Usage view, even when they are spelled the
same in two different plans.

I'm thinking that I'm going to have to replace resources on each task
by re-dialing in the resources that were saved with the global resource
pool in my blank project if I want imported projects to be sharing
resources.

Seems like I might be missing something simple in how to marry-up
resources with the saved resource, off-line and get a consolidated
view.

Any suggestions?

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

J Burford Fields --

When you say "offline" projects, which do you mean:

1. Projects saved as .mpp files
2. Projects saved using File - Save Offline

Let us know.

 

[J Burford Fields]

I have one blank file that was saved off-line. I wanted to bring mpp's
into it, reconcile resources so that they're all sharing the same ones,
then do some manual leveling.

I'm discovering that there is no difficulty using mpp's without the
file saved off-line, and just copying them into a master mpp file.
That solved the problem with duplicate names. It makes some sense that
I can't copy into the file saved off-line with global information.

J