kayouMT
August 9th, 2005, 07:49 PM
With MS PROJECT 2000 ; A strange behaviour when a couple of projects are linked in a master project.
What exactly I did.
- I planned separately 3 projects : P1, P2, P3.
- I insserted the 3 projects in a central one : PMASTER.
- I defined a resource pool in PMASTER and allowed P1, P2 and P3 to share resources.
- The efforts (Work) et Duration values unit is «day».
First result (seems to be correct).
- In a first check ; the merge worked but one task of P1 is marked «critical» in PMASTER and not in P1 plan.
Second result (Strange!).
- 24 hours after, I reopen the 4 files. Surprise ! Durations have been automatically recalculated and replaced by other numbers with decimal digits ???
- Also, anytime I open the PMASTER project, a second file (Project1) is created. The content of Project1 is very similar to the content of PMASTER ???
- A look to the «resource usage» table does also show me (for a week, 5 days planning) the values 1.14d 1.14d 1.14d 1.14d 1.14d instead of 1d 1d 1d 1d 1d ???
- The critical task is still «critical» in PMASTER and not in P1. I do not understand why ???
Thanks in advance for your help.
What exactly I did.
- I planned separately 3 projects : P1, P2, P3.
- I insserted the 3 projects in a central one : PMASTER.
- I defined a resource pool in PMASTER and allowed P1, P2 and P3 to share resources.
- The efforts (Work) et Duration values unit is «day».
First result (seems to be correct).
- In a first check ; the merge worked but one task of P1 is marked «critical» in PMASTER and not in P1 plan.
Second result (Strange!).
- 24 hours after, I reopen the 4 files. Surprise ! Durations have been automatically recalculated and replaced by other numbers with decimal digits ???
- Also, anytime I open the PMASTER project, a second file (Project1) is created. The content of Project1 is very similar to the content of PMASTER ???
- A look to the «resource usage» table does also show me (for a week, 5 days planning) the values 1.14d 1.14d 1.14d 1.14d 1.14d instead of 1d 1d 1d 1d 1d ???
- The critical task is still «critical» in PMASTER and not in P1. I do not understand why ???
Thanks in advance for your help.