Project External Linking – Another Method
BY: Collin Quiring
Just a quick note on another way to link tasks from different schedules. We have talked about this a few times with a few different twists, here, here and here. As with many things Microsoft, there are multiple ways to do something and this method seemed to work best for a client of ours since they had numerous links between many tasks in multiple schedules and doing the links one at a time was a bit too time consuming.
This method is fairly simple:
- Open a new blank project
- Insert the projects with the tasks you want to link as subprojects
- Expand all the subprojects
- Link the tasks between the various projects
- Close (DO NOT SAVE) the blank project (which has now become a master project)
- Click on the Yes To All to save the subprojects
Visually, those steps are here:
- How it appears prior to expanding the tasks
- Expanding the tasks
- Linking tasks between the Infrastructure Seven schedule, task 87, and Infrastructure Three schedule, task 3
- Closing the “master project”
- Saying Yes to all saves the subprojects separately
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