How do I identify, reduce, eliminate redundant links in MSproject.

[phil dieckmann]

How do I identify, reduce, eliminate redundant links in MSproject?

Are there any tools available in MSproject that can maually reduce or
eliminate redundant links in a network?

Are there algorithms (macros) available?

 

[James G]

Hi Phil,

I guess that you're still searching for that elusive Utopian software .
If you manage to find it, please let us all know where you found it! In the
meantime, I would not have thought that any programme would contain that many
truly redundant links that, if left as they are, would have a significant
effect on the scheduling process. There is a greater likelyhood of the
programme containing "incorrect" links to other, independent tasks, as
opposed to "redundant" links (eg. false logic as opposed to redundant logic).

Cheers.

James.G

 

[Al Wallace]

Phil,

If you're talking about project links to a shared resource pool, then it's
pretty easy. You open up the shared resource pool. go to
Tools->Resources->Share Resources and you'll get a dialog box which shows all
of the files that are linked to that shared resource pool.

Another trick I learned about shared resource pools to overcome "redudndant"
links is that if you want to work up a new version of the project and still
retain the current one, you open the current one, then do a Save As. This
will unlink the current version and link the new version automatically.