Master Project File and Resource Pool

[ARBrock]

Good morning,

I work for a residential remodel company. We generally have 30-50 projects
running at any given time. I have created a project file for each project,
and to help manage/report I created a consolidated "master" project.

I've been asked to create a "resource pool" to share resources between all
these projects. In the training class I took, the resource pool was a
completely seperate file.

Can I put the "resource pool" in the master project file instead of creating
a seperate file?

Thanks,

AR

 

[Mike Glen]

Hi AR,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup

Yes, you can. But master projects are really only temporary things that
have placeholders for each of the inserted projects. Thus, it is cleaner or
better to have a separate file for a resources pool and share each project
with that. Then, when you create a master, you can insert any number of the
projects leaving the pool intact. Is there a particular reason for what you
want to do?

FAQs, companion products and other useful Project information can be seen at
this web address: http://project.mvps.org/faqs.htm

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

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP
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[ARBrock]

Thanks for the response Mike!!

I am trying to find solutions for our newly implemented MS Project -- but I
want the solutions to have as minimal of an impact on the project
coordination team while we are working out the kinks in the system. I have a
bunch of data in multiple locations (most of it is housed in excel right now
-- some stored as data some stored like a excel converted into a desktop
publishing program... I'm just trying to find a way to get it consolidated
into one place (which is the reason I asked about putting it into the
project).

I guess I should also say that we bought the server product... so is
creating a seperate "resource pool" the best way to help us make the
transition into using the server product?

-AR

 

[Mike Glen]

Hi AR,

I would say having a resource pool is the simplest way when working with a
coordination team, as it least likely to duplicate names, as the users can
select the correctly spelled resource from the pool. However, if you're
going to use Project on a server,try posting on the server newsgroup.
Please see FAQ Item: 24. Project Newsgroups. FAQs, companion products and
other useful Project information can be seen at this web address:
http://project.mvps.org/faqs.htm

Mike Glen
Project MVP