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[Q] Changing External Project Relationship to another project?

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Wed, 2018-08-15 15:25
Roberto Jr Bustos
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Hi there everyone.  Most of the program I did and managed for several years are usually incorporated in a single master program so its very seldom (and been a while) that I had to use external logic between 2 or more projects.

So my situation:

  1. Project A is my current project and some of the activities are driven by some milestones from another project, lets call it project 1.  Lets consider Proj A as my baseline.
    • Proj 1 is actually just a copy of a live Proj 0.  I'm only using Proj 1 for external logic and update Proj 1 weekly by importing the updates from the live Proj 0. 
  2. Now I have to progress update Proj A and name it to Proj B.  So usually I also just get the updates from Proj. 0 and overwrite Proj 1 with it.

Intention:

  1. Now I'm actually changing my mind and want each update (proj A, B C and so on) to be connected externally to the live weekly updates or weekly copies of the source update.
  2. So lets say for Proj B update that is connected to a a mapping schedule Proj 1, how can I change the source external project from Proj 1 to Proj 2 instead?  Proj 1 and 2 are the exact schedule but with different data dates and progress but all structure, IDs, codes are the same.

Thanks in advance guy.

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Thu, 2018-08-16 13:15
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Zoltan Palffy
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why not just work with the same live project for every update. When you are done updating copy that file and save that copy as a historical record.

This way you are always working in the same file with the correct links to and from different projects. 

 

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