Master w/o resource pool

[3326ubb]

Please guide me on the risks if I do following.
Using MSP02 Pro w/o server, Created Master by inserting individual
sub-projects.
Everything is working fine & as required. The deviation is I have not
created resource pool file & there is no resource sharing.
Is it that the file will corrupt if I continue so ? Any other risk ?

Second small question:
Can I lock my view / tables from editing ? I don't want users to modify
the same. All the tables have specific function to perform. The
end-users disturb the settings & the purpose gets lost.

 

[Mike Glen]

Hi 3326ubb ,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup

I can't see any risks with what you're doing. A master file holds only
placemarkers for the projects, it does not actually hold the project data.
However, if you modify a project within the master, it will affect only that
project. If you want to level the master then you'll need a resource pool.

There's no way of locking bits of a project. You can make it all read only
or your can provide password protection, but this applies to the whole
project.

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

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Hi,

A master without a pool is perfectly safe.

When a user has read/write access to a file he can change anything, sorry.
But when the table exists in the global.mpt file he can always recover it
through tools, organizer.
Hope this helps,