Linked tasks as 'hammocks'

[DavidC]

Hi,

I often use the feature of having 'cells' linked to create a 'hammock' It
is often where a summary task cannot be created because the hammock I need is
across unrelated tasks (say different plant areas). When a 'cell' is linked
a small grey triangle appears in the bottokm right hand corner to indicate
that the field is dynamically linked to another. When I select that 'cell'
and then look under "Edit", "Links" the particular link is highlighted, but
there does not appear to be anyway of seeing where it is linked to. This
would be useful to know, so that at later dates I or others can follow where
the information is being derived from.

Any thoughts would be helpful.

Regards

DavidC

 

[John]

Hi,

I often use the feature of having 'cells' linked to create a 'hammock' It
is often where a summary task cannot be created because the hammock I need is
across unrelated tasks (say different plant areas). When a 'cell' is linked
a small grey triangle appears in the bottokm right hand corner to indicate
that the field is dynamically linked to another. When I select that 'cell'
and then look under "Edit", "Links" the particular link is highlighted, but
there does not appear to be anyway of seeing where it is linked to. This
would be useful to know, so that at later dates I or others can follow where
the information is being derived from.

Any thoughts would be helpful.

Regards

DavidC

David,
I never did understand why only one end of a Paste Link is explicitly
viewable. You can of course double click on the destination link (or use
"Open Source" in the LInks window) to open up the source but I
understand that isn't what you want.

I agree that Project should provide the source information in a
convenient form but since that isn't the case, here is a suggestion. Use
a spare text field, or the Notes field, to hold the information in both
the source file and destination file. We used that technique way back
with Project 4.x and it worked very well but it was a bit tedious to
maintain.

Hope this helps.
John
Project MVP

 

[DavidC]

Thanks John.

Good idea hadn't thought of the obvious answer to simply use a text field to
store the link information as a note.

Maybe I might suggest it as an improvement to Microsoft.

Thanks again.

 

[John]

Thanks John.

Good idea hadn't thought of the obvious answer to simply use a text field to
store the link information as a note.

Maybe I might suggest it as an improvement to Microsoft.

Thanks again.

David,
You're welcome. As far as a suggestion for Microsoft, I doubt they would
want to "burn up" a spare text field for this information. It makes more
sense to me to expand the functionality of Edit/Links to include both
ends of the link.

John
Project MVP