Resource pool and 7 projects

[Katherine]

I have experimented and ended up with a resource pool and 7 projects
associated with it. If I open up the resource pool and select to open all
the sharer files and then follow Tools->Resource Sharing->Share Resources to
get a list of the files associated with this resource file, the list of file
names in the box is correct.
BUT, when I press Window (top menu bar) it lists Project 1 and my resource
file. If I select Project 1, it appears that it is supposed to be a
concatenation of my 7 projects. Yes??
What I really get is one project listed 3 times and 4 other projects.
At least that is what it appears by looking at the task description.
But upon further inspection things seem odd.
If I click on the note to the left of the Task description, it tells me what
location it has picked up the project information from. Here are the 3
projects that appear to be the same:
1) from the Resources.mpp file
that should have been just resources, but I did iterate a number of
times and maybe it has old project information in it. If so, is it Safe to
open up the resource file and delete all the tasks and save the resource file?
2) from the file it should - this one is ok
3) from one of my other project files - but why didn't it pick up that
project's name? Why is it listing a different project's name?

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide with these questions.

 

[Rod Gill]

Hi,

There shouldn't be any tasks in the resource pool. You will see assignments
from all projects but that's it. You may have a corruption. If you ever copy
files to a laptop then copy back, or move the files you may well corrupt the
pool as it uses old DDE technology which is notoriously fragile.

Solution is to:
1 set all projects to use their own resources again
2 delete the resource pool project
3 Attach all projects to a new, blank project so creating a new pool

Make sure you never rename, move or copy over the projects without first
removing from the pool.

 

[Katherine]

Thanks for the previous message. I did as directed and things are much
better.
I have a follow up question.
When I indicated my projects should share the new resource pool, and then
looked at the Gantt Chart for the resource pool, it lists my 7 projects (with
all their tasks). BUT, it actually lists one project twice, but if I look at
the note associated with the project, it really is a different project file.
So it really has all 7 projects of information, it just names two of them the
same. Where does this project name come from? It doesn't appear to be the
file name.
Where does the project name come from? Can I just change the name?
Thanks

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Hi,

It comes from File, Properties, Title.
HTH