Alerts

[Muddypaws]

Hi

I am working on a detailed Project which contains about 5 seperate
projects (I manage the Project Office side). Can MS Project alert me
in anyway when one of the other Projects that are linked to mine are
amended, updated or had items deleted etc?

 

[John]

Hi

I am working on a detailed Project which contains about 5 seperate
projects (I manage the Project Office side). Can MS Project alert me
in anyway when one of the other Projects that are linked to mine are
amended, updated or had items deleted etc?

Muddypaws,
One of the new features of Project 2007 is change tracking but I don't
know how well or even if it works with consolidated masters, which is
what I assume you have.

With earlier versions of Project, there are of course the baseline
fields that can be used in conjunction with variance fields or
customized fields to detect when certain things have been changed. There
is also a Created field that tells when a task was added. You could also
use some fairly simple VBA to tell if any tasks have been deleted (use
the Count property), but to have some type of alert that detects all
changes will probably require the use of a more complex algorithm in VBA.

John
Project MVP

 

[Mike Glen]

Hi Muddypaws ,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup

Not that I know of, sorry There is a compare project facility, but that
is manual and you have to activate it and interpret the results. The best
way is to write into you Company Policy document ( you do have one don't
you?) that you are to be informed by any individual who makes changes. It's
a matter of training and discipline.

FAQs, companion products and other useful Project information can be seen at
this web address: http://project.mvps.org/faqs.htm

Hope this helps - please let us know how you get on

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP
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