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Updating of a Project Group?

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David MosesMember for 21 years 11 months
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Dear All;

Assume that we have a Project Group APEX and sub projects named A, B and C. Sub project A is at location X, B is at location Y, C is at location Z.
Each sub project is being updated by different scheduler. And there is no network. That means schedulers are not running or updating their own sub projects on the network file. Each scheduler is updating their subprojects and backing up and then sending it to the company headquarter.

Suppose that we are a Planning Manager and we have updated A, B and C subproject schedules as prx file.

How should we update the Project Group APEX? Any idea?
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    Steven Oliver ·
    #1
    One method is to make use of the "checkout/checkin" functionality.
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    Pradeep kumar ·
    #2
    Other method is
    1.Copy your original project with all subprojects to other name and then delete all sub projects in it.
    2.Copy your updated sub projects in to the Group.While copying keep the option to maintain the external links.
    3.Open the Main group project and schedule it.

    This will give the correct result on two conditions.
    a) Activity IDs are same in both Original & Updated sub-projects.
    b) Data dates for all Sub projects and Group project is same.
    Hope this may help you
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    Jorge Taguinod ·
    #3
    Since you have the PRX file, I think you can RESTORE it into the Master Project.

    Or,

    You can restore and open the subproject, copy the contents and paste to the Original subproject.

    Create a backup of your files first (WINZIP) before you try this so just in case something wrong happens.

    Hope this helps.

    Best,

    Jorge
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    Paul Harris ·
    #4
    As Steven stated below, the Project Check-in and Project Check-out is designed exactly for this purpose.

    The advantage of this function over back up and restore is that external relationships from a sub-project are maintained when a project is checked out to another system and autromatically restored when the project is checked back in again.

    Paul E Harris
    Eastwood Harris Pty Ltd, Melbourne, Australia
    Planning and Scheduling Training Manual & Book Publishers & Consulting
    www.eh.com.au
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    David Moses ·
    #5
    Dear All;

    In fact I tried the methods proposed by Pradeep Kumar and Jorge Taguinod (copying/restoring etc.) by myself before I post my concern here. But I was not happy with that solution.

    Now, it seems to me that the right method is "check out/check in" function as explained by Steven Oliver and Paul Harris.

    Thanks.
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