Consolidated Project Security

[DMR]

Hello,

Looking for some help re consolidated projects...

Currently building a master project that has 10 - 12 sub projects inserted.
Each of the sub projects is controlled by a separate scheduler. The master
is controlled by the lead scheduler. If an update is made in one of the
sub-projects, is there any way to stop update of master project until
proposed changes are approved by the lead scheduler? Do not want automatic
update of data until cause / effect is determined. Any help would be
appreciated

regards,

Duane

 

[DMR]

forgot to mention.....currently using MSP 2000

thx again...

 

[Rob Schneider]

AFAIK, there is no automated way. You'll have to setup some sort of
agreed work process. What comes to mind

- if the concern is "publishing" (i.e. communicating to others, not
"publishing as in how Project Server uses the word) the not-yet-approved
master project (due to unapproved subprojects), then segate the
published version from the "under contruction" version. Let the
published version be a clone which remains static until such time as you
chose to update it fully.

- if the concern is the published version, then consider no publishing a
version in Project. Just post a PDF copy and then only update/change
when you are happy with the new version.

Maybe there is another way, but it doens't occur to me at the moment. I
guess the main issue is to understand the real concern and work that
issue. I'm assuming your concern is around communicating
wrong/incomplete information ... hence I jump to the conclusion about
managing that.

Hope this is useful to you. Let us know.

rms

 

[DMR]

Hi Rob, thanks for the response.

We do currently publish a pdf version, some formatting and clarity is lost
[ie: when trying to show the whole year] Have worked on this to the point
where we can get decent results printing large format to a plotter. MS
Project print clarity is much better than pdf version though. I do like the
idea of a carbon copy of the schedule for distribution, but this needs to be
a dynamic schedule as we measure compliance to baseline.

Work processes looks like the way to go for now.....
thanks again for the reply,

Duane

 

[Rob Schneider]

Sometimes I will "print" to large virtual "paper" size, e.g. A3 or A2
when creating a PDF. This enlarges the space available for printing
into a PDF representation and may give you the resolution you are
seeking. Size of paper makes no difference in Acrobat Reader as user
can zoom to whatever they want.

Hope this is useful to you. Let us know.

rms

Hi Rob, thanks for the response.

We do currently publish a pdf version, some formatting and clarity is lost
[ie: when trying to show the whole year] Have worked on this to the point
where we can get decent results printing large format to a plotter. MS
Project print clarity is much better than pdf version though. I do like the
idea of a carbon copy of the schedule for distribution, but this needs to be
a dynamic schedule as we measure compliance to baseline.

Work processes looks like the way to go for now.....
thanks again for the reply,

Duane

AFAIK, there is no automated way. You'll have to setup some sort of
agreed work process. What comes to mind

- if the concern is "publishing" (i.e. communicating to others, not
"publishing as in how Project Server uses the word) the not-yet-approved
master project (due to unapproved subprojects), then segate the
published version from the "under contruction" version. Let the
published version be a clone which remains static until such time as you
chose to update it fully.

- if the concern is the published version, then consider no publishing a
version in Project. Just post a PDF copy and then only update/change
when you are happy with the new version.

Maybe there is another way, but it doens't occur to me at the moment. I
guess the main issue is to understand the real concern and work that
issue. I'm assuming your concern is around communicating
wrong/incomplete information ... hence I jump to the conclusion about
managing that.

Hope this is useful to you. Let us know.

rms



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