Work Totals in Summary Task in Master Plan

[Todd]

Hello,
We have a master plan linked to 6 sub-projects. The master is just to serve
as a global view with the main project information. We created the tasks in
the master to be summary task of the actual task in the sub-projects. MS
Project is caculating and showing the % COmplete at the summary level, but it
will not calculate/total the Work. The summary always displays zero, even
when you can view the predecessor task that is grayed out has actual values
for the Work.

Anyone know how to make sure all of the summary data is calculating?

 

[John]

Hello,
We have a master plan linked to 6 sub-projects. The master is just to serve
as a global view with the main project information. We created the tasks in
the master to be summary task of the actual task in the sub-projects. MS
Project is caculating and showing the % COmplete at the summary level, but it
will not calculate/total the Work. The summary always displays zero, even
when you can view the predecessor task that is grayed out has actual values
for the Work.

Anyone know how to make sure all of the summary data is calculating?

Todd,
Just a little clarification on Mike's response. When subprojects are
inserted into a master the master automatically creates a summary line
for each master and those summary lines are the only lines that actually
belong to the master. The subprojects themselves are not part of the
master. The master only contains pointers to those subprojects. And just
for reference, the Work field for these master summary lines is
automatically calculated whether the individual subprojects have been
separately opened or not.

So when you say you created tasks in the master to be summary tasks of
tasks in the subprojects, like Mike, I'm curious to know what exactly
you mean by that.

John
Project MVP