I've been coming up against a problem when setting up master projects, and don't know if it's something I'm doing wrong (or if there is another way of getting the result I am looking for).
I have 6 projects set up, each of which has 7 summary tasks - the summary tasks are arranged by the department responsible for the work (e.g. commercial, sales, design & engineering). I want to set up a master project for each department so that they can see their tasks for all 6 projects on one print out.
I have set flags 1 - 7 for the departments/tasks (including both summary and subtasks) in each project. I then opened a blank project, and inserted the subprojects as read only (because I do not want the formatting changes made in the master to affect the subprojects). I inserted a column for flag 1, expanded all the subprojects, and set the flag filter to only show yes. This worked fine, I got the result I wanted. However, after I'd saved the master project, when I opened up one of the subprojects the file had become read only.
Does anyone have any suggestions? I'd like to keep the master and subprojects linked if possible, but don't want to have to 'save as' to create a new file that I can edit every time I want to update a subproject.
I'm using MS Project Standard 2013.
I have 6 projects set up, each of which has 7 summary tasks - the summary tasks are arranged by the department responsible for the work (e.g. commercial, sales, design & engineering). I want to set up a master project for each department so that they can see their tasks for all 6 projects on one print out.
I have set flags 1 - 7 for the departments/tasks (including both summary and subtasks) in each project. I then opened a blank project, and inserted the subprojects as read only (because I do not want the formatting changes made in the master to affect the subprojects). I inserted a column for flag 1, expanded all the subprojects, and set the flag filter to only show yes. This worked fine, I got the result I wanted. However, after I'd saved the master project, when I opened up one of the subprojects the file had become read only.
Does anyone have any suggestions? I'd like to keep the master and subprojects linked if possible, but don't want to have to 'save as' to create a new file that I can edit every time I want to update a subproject.
I'm using MS Project Standard 2013.