Inserting projects and resource pool

[Claire]

I created a project file in which I inserted all of projects for company (is
this is what's referred to in this forum as a "master project"?). There was
no problem inserting the projects but I've just realized that it's not
actually accessing the resource pool. So, the resources are internal to the
file BUT when I open this file I am prompted to open the resource pool.
Because I was prompted for this I thought somehow it was still accessing it.
Sigh. So now I'm trying to figure out how this is working and is there a
reason I can't use the resource pool for this - will it register in the
resource pool as duplicate assignments?

BTW, this reason this is a problem is that I've added additional information
in the resource Text2 and Text3 fields in the resource pool and I can't
access it in the file with the inserted projects. I'm not sure why. I updated
other information in the resource pool (like initials) and it transferred
that information to the combined file. So maybe the better question is is how
to I access that data in the combined file? I'm trying to access it using VB
script in a macro.

 

[Jim Aksel]

Under Tools/Resource Sharing you should be able to redirect assignments
to/from the pool by setting which file will take precedence. The risk is the
spelling of names: Mary S and Mary Smith are not the same. That can make
for unintended consequences.

As for the VB Macro, understand the Application.ActiveProject is going to
give you the Master Project. You will be acting only on the line items in
the master project. To access the line items of the inserted projects they
are SubProjects and it needs to be done recursively. If you need, I can post
an example. Look at the line numbering in the Master Project and you will
see what I mean.
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[Claire]

Not sure this answers my question...

Maybe I've being doing something wrong all along but when I have local
resources in a project and then select to use a resource pool the file
crashes on me so I never switch back and forth between local and a pool. Am I
doing something wrong that is causing that? I thought it was a bug and I just
decided to work around that. So that's why I don't just switch between the
two.

On the VB script issue when I use the ResourcePoolName property I do get the
local resources - which is how I figured out I had resources locally. If I
change it to a resource pool will ResourcePoolName property return the
resource pool? I guess I was thinking I didn't want to mess with the
resources in the master project (due to crashing problem mentioned above) if
it wouldn't work that way anyway. I'll create a test file today to play with
I guess.

Claire