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Linda Zinn Director, Enterprise Project Management Office| FlightSafety International Rutherford, Nj, United States
Greetings!

Has anyone used the subproject feature with Project Professional and Microsoft Project Server 2013? We're looking to test it out on a new project we are setting up and wondered if there were any typical Microsoft "gotchas" we should be aware of or any tricks anyone can share.

Thanks in advance.
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Stéphane Parent Self Employed / Semi-retired| Leader Maker Prince Edward Island, Canada
Yes, I have, Linda.

I worked as a program administrator and I had to build dependencies between the various project schedules.

The tricky part is the visual aspect of external dependencies. At the time, we were using Project 2007 and they looked like "ghosts", all greyed out. I haven't tried it since then. Hopefully, under the newer versions of Project, the external dependencies aren't so visually jarring.
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Linda Zinn Director, Enterprise Project Management Office| FlightSafety International Rutherford, Nj, United States
2007 was awful. We did a beta test on it and decided to scrap the idea and stay with a single master schedule on a server. 2010 was night and day. We implemented that about two years ago and them migrated to 2013 last summer. I like 2010 better than 2013. The made the "excel" like datasheet list view web based and it is clunky as all get out.

That being said, so far the sub-project feature is pretty slick. The only downsides I see so far is you can only add predecessors and successors to the highest level summary tasks (usually the project name) and the subsite on the sharepoint side leaves a lot to be desired. All you really get there is a common URL naming convention and if you drill down into site contents you can see you have one.
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1 reply by Patrick Dicey
May 13, 2016 1:50 PM
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Hello Linda,

I haven't used 2013/Server version but in 2003, 2007, and 2010 versions you can certainly add external dependencies at the lowest level tasks. On LAN drive networks (might vary with server) add a dependency using this format within the task details:

LAN Drive location/Projectfilename.mpp/task ID

I *believe* it is task ID, but it could be unique ID. Once you hit "ok" it should accept the dependency and you can see it has been added to the task. I also believe you do this with both files open, and then save both files to accept the dependency. Sorry I am a bit rusty on this for the exact details.

Good luck!
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Samuel Vaddi Avon, In, United States
Linda, this discussion chain may be helpful to you as well...

http://www.projectmanagement.com/discussio...-same-resources
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Patrick Dicey Manager, Customer Project Management| CentralSquare Technologies Orlando, Fl, United States
May 13, 2016 10:20 AM
Replying to Linda Zinn
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2007 was awful. We did a beta test on it and decided to scrap the idea and stay with a single master schedule on a server. 2010 was night and day. We implemented that about two years ago and them migrated to 2013 last summer. I like 2010 better than 2013. The made the "excel" like datasheet list view web based and it is clunky as all get out.

That being said, so far the sub-project feature is pretty slick. The only downsides I see so far is you can only add predecessors and successors to the highest level summary tasks (usually the project name) and the subsite on the sharepoint side leaves a lot to be desired. All you really get there is a common URL naming convention and if you drill down into site contents you can see you have one.
Hello Linda,

I haven't used 2013/Server version but in 2003, 2007, and 2010 versions you can certainly add external dependencies at the lowest level tasks. On LAN drive networks (might vary with server) add a dependency using this format within the task details:

LAN Drive location/Projectfilename.mpp/task ID

I *believe* it is task ID, but it could be unique ID. Once you hit "ok" it should accept the dependency and you can see it has been added to the task. I also believe you do this with both files open, and then save both files to accept the dependency. Sorry I am a bit rusty on this for the exact details.

Good luck!

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