Uploading a consolidated plan to the server

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Eleonore Pieper

Hello,

Has anyone experience with uploading a consolidated plan
(made up of several integrated plans with multiple "ghost"
predecessors and successors between the plans) to the
server? What happens to the "ghosts"?

I currently have to determine whether to upload the plans
as individual plans with loss of dependencies between the
projects or whether to upload the consolidated plan.

Any experience descriptions of a similar scenario are more
than welcome.

Thanks, Eleonore
 
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Dale Howard

Eleonore --

I would recommend that you individually save in the Project Server database
each of the projects that are subprojects in the master project. I would
also recommend that you do not save the master project in the Project Server
database, because of the risk that you might accidentally publish the master
project. Doing so would immediately double your resource usage across all
of the subprojects. You can save the master project as an .mpp file in a
network folder if you wish (File - Save As - Save As File).

The ghost tasks represent external dependencies in a project. They are
normal, and are a good thing. They are meant to show that a task is
dependent on a task in another project and will not damage either the
subprojects or the Project Server database. Hope this helps.
 
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Eleonore Pieper

Hello Dale,

Thank you very much for your quick and thorough reply.
This was exactly the kind of advice I was looking for. You
helped me a lot with my decision!

All the best, Eleonore
 
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Brian K - Project MVP

Dale said:
Eleonore --

I would recommend that you individually save in the Project Server
database each of the projects that are subprojects in the master
project. I would also recommend that you do not save the master
project in the Project Server database, because of the risk that you
might accidentally publish the master project. Doing so would
immediately double your resource usage across all of the subprojects.
You can save the master project as an .mpp file in a network folder
if you wish (File - Save As - Save As File).
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If you have Project Server 2003 you can allow Saves of Master projects
but disallow publishing. In this way you can still have them on the
server but avoid the dangers that Dale mentions.
 
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