Make a task appear multiple times?

[Ste.be]

Is it possible to make a task appear multiple times in a ms project view?
I want to make a plan which integrates an engineering plan with a production
plan. I can insert them to a master plan, and then group by area, but I would
like to make certain engineering tasks appear multiple times.
For example: The calculation of load bearing structure is a prerequisite
both for "concrete wing A" and "concrete wing B". I want to group by wing and
then get

area: Wing A
-Load bearing structure
-Concrete wing A

area: Wing B
-Load bearing structure
-Concrete wing B

Anyone know if this is possible?

Another solution would be if the "group by"-function could sort by multiple
criterias. For the example, I would get the groups "all + wing A" and "all +
wing B" where engineering tasks would be categorized as "all".

Thankful for any advice!

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Ste.be --

You need to manually add the task in each section of the project. Hope this
helps.

 

[John]

Is it possible to make a task appear multiple times in a ms project view?
I want to make a plan which integrates an engineering plan with a production
plan. I can insert them to a master plan, and then group by area, but I would
like to make certain engineering tasks appear multiple times.
For example: The calculation of load bearing structure is a prerequisite
both for "concrete wing A" and "concrete wing B". I want to group by wing and
then get

area: Wing A
-Load bearing structure
-Concrete wing A

area: Wing B
-Load bearing structure
-Concrete wing B

Anyone know if this is possible?

Another solution would be if the "group by"-function could sort by multiple
criterias. For the example, I would get the groups "all + wing A" and "all +
wing B" where engineering tasks would be categorized as "all".

Thankful for any advice!

Ste.be,
Just keep in mind that each task in a project is unique, no two are
exactly alike. In your example there are two "load bearing structure"
tasks. Although they both have the same description one is the load
bearing calculation for wing A and the other is a similar task for wing
B. This may seem like a trivial point but if you want to sort or group
your file to see all the structural calculation tasks, you would get a
whole list of tasks with the same description and unless a summary line
was included in the sort/group, the user could not distinguish one
calculation task from another.

Another suggestion. All performance tasks should be stated in action
verb format. For example you could show the two tasks as:
"Calculate load structure for wing A"
"Calculate load structure for wing B"

Hope this helps.

John
Project MVP