Bug? Error when opening linked projects

[Ed]

We're using Project Server 2002.
We're trying to maintain interdepencies between projects.
The proposed method was as follows:
- Create Milestones in both projects (predecessor and
successor)
- Create a Predecessor link fro the successor project to
the task in the predecessor project
- copy the %Complete from the Predecessor Task and PASTE
LINK to the successor Task milestone.

This provides us with the ability to:
- see in the predecessor column the name of the
predecessor project
- get auto updates of the dates AND %Complete from the
Predecessor Task to the Successor project's milestone.

PROBLEM:
- Although the dates update using the predecessor
reference of the form <>\predproject\##
- the PASTE LINK of the %Complete generates an error...
(See below)

+++
"my project" contains linked information.
Do you want to reestablish the links?
Hit Yes
Microsoft Project cannot connect to link "<>\My link
Project"
Do you want to delete the link?...
+++

All we really want is a way of propogating,
automatically, the marking of the predecessor's %Complete
updates to the Successor Projects.

Any help here would be greatly appreciated...

Ed

 

[DD]

Ok

You can make it in the way I explain it:

You can write a simple macro to autocopy the value from predecessor to the
successor

But the value is copied only when the projects are opened, by accepting the
task update


!!!This update can be done automatically but you wouldn't want to get in to
this,
Write a stored procedure to do the automatic process in the database, but it
would get time to understand the database schema and underlying construct. I
recommend you to write macro instead...