Combining all schedules or manage them with links!

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tom huang 👤 Member for 19 years 9 months
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Vladimir Liberzon 👤 Member for 25 years 4 months

Of course it is easier and more practical to work with the separate schedules.

But sometimes you will need to level resources that are used in different projects and manage total cost and material requirements and supplies.

Thus you need to be able to consolidate all projects in one master schedule to make necessary computations (resource, cost and material leveling) then to divide them back to manage separately.

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John Lawson 👤 Member for 21 years 8 months

Hi



Option 1. To combine them all into one "giant" master schedule?!



Reply: I would avoid this option at all costs, best to keep your projects in nice "easy lumps"



Option 2. Manage them separately (using P3e) with relative interfaces?!



Reply: This is way to go - this what the software was designed to do and it actuall does work, one job I was on we had over 600 projects all running together under P3e. This worked fine, mind would have hated to have had that lot in one one network!!



Regards



John

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Nigel Winkley 👤 Member for 20 years

Tom



Similar situation. I have to integrate three major projects - from P3, P3e and MSP. I have created milestones as a separate section and link via the milestones.



Minimal change to the "original" programme but links can easily be shown - both as "contract" or Schedule 11 and "planned" or the real timescales.



Stick with P3e - it’s what it’s for! So I am told...



Cheers



Nige

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Marcio Sampaio 👤 Member for 20 years 7 months

I am now working with 5 big projects and i am managing all separate using P3e. It allow me to analyze all projects interfaces when necessary openning all at same time.



Regards.

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Charleston-Joseph Orbe 👤 Member for 20 years 10 months

hi,



Better manage the project using P3e/c or P5.



This is what P5 for, 32 bit unlimited unlimited ... capacity, functionality, etc.



Cheers,



Charlie

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Abhijit Kulkarni 👤 Member for 22 years 6 months

Have you tried sub projects Check in & Check out option?



You can create sub projects for your all schedules and bind them in one Main project and use Check in & Check out option to update separately and again merge with main project after updating.


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