Reuse of a Project

[KenRamoska]

Hi,
We have a project that helps us develop curriculum. It's based on a 1 day
course.
We want to repurpose this project for 2 day...3 day...etc... longer courses.
Do we have to redo the entire project or is there a way to automate the
update of the task lengths by letting the project know the course is now 2
days...so in effect most tasks would double in length for example. I thought
not but I wanted to throw the question out before I gave up.

 

[salgud]

Hi,
We have a project that helps us develop curriculum. It's based on a 1 day
course.
We want to repurpose this project for 2 day...3 day...etc... longer courses.
Do we have to redo the entire project or is there a way to automate the
update of the task lengths by letting the project know the course is now 2
days...so in effect most tasks would double in length for example. I thought
not but I wanted to throw the question out before I gave up.

If you have someone who knows VBA, then yes, it's easy. If not, not quite
so easy. You'd have to filter out summaries, created a calculated field
which doubles the current durations, then copy and paste the new durations
into the duration fiels. Not too hard.

Hope this helps in your world.

 

[Mike Glen]

Hi Ken,

I can't see how to do this normally, but I'm sure it would be possible with
vba. You could try posting on the microsoft.public.project.server
newsgroup. Please see FAQ Item: 24. Project Newsgroups. FAQs, companion
products and other useful Project information can be seen at this web
address: http://project.mvps.org/faqs.htm

Mike Glen
Project MVP