Inserting same subproject multiple times or importing duration of a subproject

Question

Is there a way for inserting the same subproject more than one time so I could avoid the message that "a project can be inserted only once in a consolidated project"?

I had read in some forums that you should change the name for the file, but in my case that option will create more than a thousand files and it won't be easy to manage.

As an alternative I thought that if there's no way to insert multiple times the same subproject, maybe there's a way to import from a subproject only the total duration of the activity (again multiple times). Is there some way to do this?

Thank you all for your help!

Answer 1

A brief explanation is that I have a master project that includes the construction of about 10 buildings. They have almost the same procedure, starting with the acquisition of land, hiring the contractors and construction itself.

What I want to do is to have one subproject for acquisition of land, other subproject for the hiring of the contractors and a last one for the construction.

The idea of this is that for example at this moment I have that the procedure of acquisition of land lasts 56 days (same for the 10 projects), but if for any reason in the future the procedure of acquisition of land reduces to only 45 days, that I could change this duration in a subproject and that it automatically be changed in the 10 projects and not having to change manually each one of the projects.

Because the more important for me is the update of the activity duration is that I thought in an alternative option of just importing the data in the "duration" column of the subproject.

Thanks!

Answer 2

I think you are barkin' up the wrong tree entirely.

My suggestion is that before you waste hundreds of hours going down the route you propose, which will not work, re-think the problem and approach it in a different way.

You have 10 buildings so you have 10 projects. Choose one to start with, probably the one that starts first. Get that one 100% right. It will take about 200 tasks. Then copy that one file 10 times and make the necessary adjustments to each one which will be unique in their own way.

Answer 3

??? I think you need to explain exactly what end result you are looking for. A sub-project can only be inserted once. No way around it, so why?

What do you need to do with the "Activity"?

Be aware that when you have linked master files, any time you over-write any file, rename them, move them or store any file on a disk drive not in your building you risk file corruption (when not if).

Please provide more info, including version and Service pack level.