Viewing multiple projects in one report (Project 2000 OR 2003)

[JoeyGee]

My department has 6 employees. We need a way to track our individual
projects. I hope to use Project 2000 or 2003. How can I generate a report
(both electronic and hard copy) that would include summaries of all six
employees' projects? Is this possible?

Each employee would have his own copy of Project.

 

[Steve House [MVP]]

Create a new project file. Use "Insert Project" in the menu to insert each
individual project file and build a consolidation. You can expand the
inserted files to see their task detail or collapse them to just see the
project summary. This creates an OLE link between the files so any change
to an individual project in one file causes the other file to also reflect
the change. Do whatever reports you want with the consolidation file.

 

[John]

Joey,
I suggest you start by creating a consolidated master of the 6
individual projects. First, open a new blank project. Then go to
Insert/Project. In the window that appears, select all 6 individual
projects and hit "Insert". The default setting will create a dynamically
linked master. That is, changes made to the individual files will be
reflected in the master and, for the most part, changes made to the
master will be reflected in the individual subprojects.

Once the master is created, you can create virtually any type of report
you want - some by customizing the view parameters, some using the
built-in Reports feature and some using VBA.

Hope this helps.

John
Project MVP