Linking Projects

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17 years 2 months

Yes, you can LINK (using interproject relationship) two project with different planning units but you CANNOT merge (TOOL >>>> PROJECT UTILITIES >>>>> MERGE) two project with different planning units.



I hope this helps.



Bowa

Member for

19 years 1 month

Koko,



"can I merge two or more projects with different planning units"? I believe yes, you can merge, but how it will calculate? I don’t know.



why you need to do it?

Member for

17 years 2 months

Thank you I O.....it really made sense to do that. I’ve explored the interproject relationship and just wondering if there is an easy or faster way of linking the activities/project.



My concern specifically is that is there a way I can export a template (similar to (in P3) using tool>>>>Project utilities>>>>>Export then import later) make the links maybe in Excel (or WK1) format and import back as against linking it one after the other in interproject relationship?



Similarly, a file with extension .IPT is created, do you know of any program (excel, word pad etc) I can use to open this file?



I’ve got up to 2,000 tasks to link this way. Thank you (or anyone) for offering solution.



Bowa

Member for

18 years 9 months

Hi Bowa,



I presume you are not running the projects in a multi user environment... You can use Interproject Relationships to create links between the 3 projects... You can also convert Project A planning unit to hours, but create a column for Duration in Days, and use Global change to calculate hours based on the days input...



i hope it makes sense... cheers