Inserting a PORTION of a subproject into a master project

[Belinda Lee]

In Project 2007, I cannot find how to insert a portion of a subproject
into a master project. I have 25 different subprojects that are all
organized by phases (Phase 1-5). The master needs to consolidate the
subprojects by these respective phases. For example:

MASTER
- Phase 1
--- From subproject 1
--- From subproject 2
--- From subproject 3

- Phase 2
--- From subproject 2
--- From subproject 3
--- From subproject 4

- Phase 3
--- From subproject 3
--- From subproject 4
--- From subproject 5

.... and so on and so forth. Can anyone help me?

 

[PlanMan]

I would link the subprojects to the master via external linkages (maybe you
can avoid a "master file" altogether). Likely you would duplicate the tasks
in the master and link them externally to the respective subproject files. I
hope I understood your question correctly. This is done by opening the
subproject and master file and using "Sub Project Name"\(task id #) as a
predecessor name where the "Sub Project Name" is the name of the file and the
task id# is the line in which the task appears in your sub project file.
Depending on what are you specifically want you can always just copy and
paste tasks into another file - highlight the entire row and then right click
and copy task.

 

[Andrew Lavinsky]

You could probably do this by:

1) Adding a custom field to your subprojects flagging each task by phase.
2) Inserting subprojects into your master project
3) Adding a custom group (Project > Group by > More Groups) to group by
Phase and then Project.

I don't have a copy of Project in front of me, but in concept that should
work.

 

[Mike Glen]

Hi Belinda,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup

I think I would simplify the whole process by making each phase of each project into a project in its own right. Then you can be selective when inserting projects into the master to meet you needs. Or you can then insert all the projects and in the master, filter out the ones you don't want to see at that time.

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

Mike Glen
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In Project 2007, I cannot find how to insert a portion of a subproject
into a master project. I have 25 different subprojects that are all
organized by phases (Phase 1-5). The master needs to consolidate the
subprojects by these respective phases. For example:

MASTER
- Phase 1
--- From subproject 1
--- From subproject 2
--- From subproject 3

- Phase 2
--- From subproject 2
--- From subproject 3
--- From subproject 4

- Phase 3
--- From subproject 3
--- From subproject 4
--- From subproject 5

... and so on and so forth. Can anyone help me?