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Linking Plans

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Sarah has attended:
Project Intermediate course

Linking Plans

Is it possible to link two plans together ?
I would like to seperate an series of activities out of the main plan work on them in isolation but link them to actvities within the main plan such that changes to the "sub-plan" cause an effect in the main plan

Thanks You

RE: Linking Plans

Hi Sarah,

Thank you for your question.

My question would be whether the tasks you want to work on in isolation are part of the same summary task?

If so, you can copy and paste the tasks and durations into a new project and save the project as a separate entity.

Then in the main project, you can use the Insert Project command, select the sub project and insert it into the main one.

The process of inserting sub projects automatically links the sub project to the main one. Hence any changes made in the sub project will update in the main one.

I hope this answers your question. If not let me know.

Regards

Simon

Fri 8 Jul 2011: Automatically marked as resolved.


 

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Compare Work and Duration

Duration is the timescale within which a task is done; Work is the specific time element used. For example, 3 days work in a duration of 2 weeks. To compare, add the Work field into the Entry table by right clicking a column heading to Add Field.

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