Hello Forum,
I'm new to ms project and trying to come up with a good way of tracking progress. The Baseline option of MS Project seems to help with this task. The only problem I have is the limitation of 10 baselines. A workaround seems to copy and paste the project file and set new baselines in the copied version.
But is there a better possibility? The problem would be that after a project with a duration of a year or more the weekly/montly/quarterly progress tracking and comparison between different time periods seems inefficient if I have to find and load different project files (assuming this workaround works in the first place)
best,
Simon
Simon,
there is no straightforward way, to the best of my knowledge.
One of the solution, is to keep an old version of the file and to transfer the baseline across from the previous document to the new document.
Some time ago I have written a tool, called "Microsoft Project Baseline Copier" (http://sourceforge.net/projects/mppbaselinecop/)
You can try using it. It has a limitation, that it uses MP Project feature to export the MS Project file to MS access and to read it back into the MS Project file.
Unfortunately starting from MS Project 2007 Microsoft has discontinued the feature to export to MS Access format (importing is still there), therefore you can only do export, only if you have MS Project 2003, and you are not afraid to lose 2007/2010 file features
Since a while I wanted to re-write the "Microsoft Project Baseline Copier" in MS Project Visual Basic to get rid of Ms Access dependency, but I never had a time to do this.
Regards.