GarethPaul
IS-IT--Management
Microsoft project 2000 (9.0.2001.0219 SR-1)
We are experiencing a great deal of trouble with external links between plans not updating. I.e. a milestone in each plan is linked externally and should therefore reflect the same date, and yet under some circumstances, they do not. The condition seems to be to do with the number of plans open on one PC. We have 21 plans integrated together through one central plan 'Dependency master'. We have in the region of 1300 external dependencies coming out to the project plans to the dependency master, and the same coming out of the dependency master back to the project plans. We have used the normal project method of creating a links between projects.
It seems that if we have more than about eight of the project plans open along with the dependency master, the links stop updating. i.e. the dates on either end of the dependency differ, even after a recalculation. Our current work around is to unload projects until the recalculation takes affect.
Is there a known problem with external dependencies? Is there a limit to the number of dependencies you can have in and out of a plan? Is there a limit due to the length of the path preceding the UID of the predecessor, we currently have around 30 chars including the server name.
Gareth R. Paul
We are experiencing a great deal of trouble with external links between plans not updating. I.e. a milestone in each plan is linked externally and should therefore reflect the same date, and yet under some circumstances, they do not. The condition seems to be to do with the number of plans open on one PC. We have 21 plans integrated together through one central plan 'Dependency master'. We have in the region of 1300 external dependencies coming out to the project plans to the dependency master, and the same coming out of the dependency master back to the project plans. We have used the normal project method of creating a links between projects.
It seems that if we have more than about eight of the project plans open along with the dependency master, the links stop updating. i.e. the dates on either end of the dependency differ, even after a recalculation. Our current work around is to unload projects until the recalculation takes affect.
Is there a known problem with external dependencies? Is there a limit to the number of dependencies you can have in and out of a plan? Is there a limit due to the length of the path preceding the UID of the predecessor, we currently have around 30 chars including the server name.
Gareth R. Paul