Project 2003 Question

[Marilyn]

Does Project 2003 have a real time capability that allows multiple users to
access file and make changes to it?

Thanks,

 

[JackD]

No, Only one person may have the file open for editing at a time.

-Jack Dahlgren

 

[Rod Gill]

Hi,

No. Project is like Excel in that the whole file is read into memory. Only
the first person has read and write privileges. Subsequent people opening
the file get read only access. There is no multi-user capability.

So, if you have a large project broken into sub-projects with a different PM
for each sub-project, have one file for each sub-project and then use a
master project or other reporting tool for an overall picture/report.

 

[Marilyn]

Thank you ALL for answering my question! :>)

Hi,

No. Project is like Excel in that the whole file is read into memory. Only
the first person has read and write privileges. Subsequent people opening
the file get read only access. There is no multi-user capability.

So, if you have a large project broken into sub-projects with a different PM
for each sub-project, have one file for each sub-project and then use a
master project or other reporting tool for an overall picture/report.

--

Rod Gill
Project MVP
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