strange issue with linked projects

[Joy]

child move to the top
you cannot see linked tasks in child projects


in MS project 2003, we have a parent project and a child project linked to
it (placed at the end of the parent project). now if we choose a task in
parent project and 1 in child project, and do link tasks, it is strange that
the whole linked child project is moved automatically to the top of the
parent project.

Another issue is there are some grey rows (can read only, cannot edit) which
are the linked tasks in child projects, but they are not shown in parent
project.
Are thoes supposed to be the cases with MS 2003?

I use 2007, and seems no such issue. thanks

How to solve this?

 

[Joy]

sorry, 2007 also has such issues. so is it supposed to be like this?

 

[Jack Dahlgren MVP]

The linked tasks are an unusual sort of task. They are just a pointer to the
task in a different project - that is why you can not edit them.
When the task that they link to is open in the same window, then the grey
task is not shown and the dependency between the tasks looks like a normal
dependency.
When the other project is NOT open in the same window, the pointer is shown
in Grey so that you can see it.

This is the way the tool is designed.

I'm not sure why the subproject moves up, perhaps you have the project
sorted by start date or something? Look at the sort criteria and see if that
is something you can change.

-Jack Dahlgren

 

[Joy]

thank you

you said it!

The linked tasks are an unusual sort of task. They are just a pointer to the
task in a different project - that is why you can not edit them.
When the task that they link to is open in the same window, then the grey
task is not shown and the dependency between the tasks looks like a normal
dependency.
When the other project is NOT open in the same window, the pointer is shown
in Grey so that you can see it.

This is the way the tool is designed.

I'm not sure why the subproject moves up, perhaps you have the project
sorted by start date or something? Look at the sort criteria and see if that
is something you can change.

-Jack Dahlgren