Question about Master Projects in Project Server 2003

[Robert]

Hello,

I am trying to learn a bit more about Master Projects and how they
work in Project Server 2003. If you publish a Master Project in
Project Server does it duplicate tasks or is it smart enough to tell
its a master project? Anything else I should know about publishing
master projects?

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Robert --

You can safely save a master project in the Project Server 2003 database,
but you should NOT ever publish a master project, as doing so creates
duplicate assignments on the PWA timesheets of each team members assigned to
tasks in the subprojects. By default, Project Server does not even allow
you to save master projects, so your Project Server administrator would need
to enable this option. Hope this helps.

 

[Robert]

If you link cross project dependencies in the master file and save it
and the changes in each individual project then re-publish the
individual projects I wonder if those cross project "ghost" links will
appear in the published projects?

 

[Ben Howard]

I did a lot of work with a master project and CPLS, and from memory, there
were no "ghost" links. There were however corruptions in the CPL links (just
loosing the link etc) so I'm not sure I would go there again with 2003! Just
my 2p worth...
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