Hi - new here!
Using MS Project 2003, I would like to "link" two tasks on a project. I am fully familiar with traditional task linking (predecessors, successors, FS, SF, FF, SS relationships, etc.), but I want to do something slightly different!
Basically, I use a VB script in my project to trawl between tasks using the predecessor relationship. Ideally however, I only want the script to traverse certain predecessors. The logic of which predecessors to follow and which to not follow is not always straight forward or consistent.
At the moment, I get around this by duplicating tasks - the script logic is then fairly simple as I can effectively "split" the predecessors. The downside is the project itself is over-complicated, and therefore hard to understand and modify. I don’t like it!
I tried using the hyperlink field - that initially seemed to be another way of "linking" tasks together, but I found quickly that if I insert a new task somewhere, all the hyperlink references did not update! e.g. if the hyperlink pointed to task #10, and I inserted a new task at #5, the hyperlink still points to #10 instead of to #11.
Any suggestions?
Using MS Project 2003, I would like to "link" two tasks on a project. I am fully familiar with traditional task linking (predecessors, successors, FS, SF, FF, SS relationships, etc.), but I want to do something slightly different!
Basically, I use a VB script in my project to trawl between tasks using the predecessor relationship. Ideally however, I only want the script to traverse certain predecessors. The logic of which predecessors to follow and which to not follow is not always straight forward or consistent.
At the moment, I get around this by duplicating tasks - the script logic is then fairly simple as I can effectively "split" the predecessors. The downside is the project itself is over-complicated, and therefore hard to understand and modify. I don’t like it!
I tried using the hyperlink field - that initially seemed to be another way of "linking" tasks together, but I found quickly that if I insert a new task somewhere, all the hyperlink references did not update! e.g. if the hyperlink pointed to task #10, and I inserted a new task at #5, the hyperlink still points to #10 instead of to #11.
Any suggestions?