UniqueID of External Link in Consolidated Project

[SpaceCamel]

I have writen a macro that traces the logic in a schedule. It works fine in
a single project but can not follow a link to External tasks in a
consolidated project. It gets the UniqueiD of the predecessor but it is the
ID of the ghost task. How do I get the real unique ID of the predecessor.

Thanks,

 

[Bill Bordiuk]

Try UniqueIDPredecessors. You'll have to parse it but it gives the unique ID
of the predecessor task as well as its project name. How will you load the
'predecessor project'?

 

[SpaceCamel]

Yes, that gives the path and ID of the predecessor. I am looking for the
Consolidated UniqueID. In a consolidated file the projects are already
opened. But the UniqueID's are different.

I just need a way to identify the real predecessor.

 

[SpaceCamel]

I couldn't find any easy way to do this so I did it the hard way. I had to
add a pre-processing of schedule to put the Project Name and the
sub-project's UniqueID increment into an array. Then when I needed to follow
an external link I looked-up the Project Name and derived the UniqueID.

Not pretty , but it works.
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