In MS Project 2000 I am trying to consolidate two projects which use
resources from the same resource pool (via Tools, Resources, Share
Resources, Use Resources from). When I insert the project files in a third
one, the consolidating file, I can see workload per resource and the origin
of the load, i.e. the project name and the task ID. But, this only works
when the project files use the same resource pool file. Because the project
files were created on separate, not network connected PC's, there is not one
resource pool files, but two. In that case the consolidating project file
does not add up the load per resource name but keeps them separate.
In the help files / Office Assistance on Internet in 'remove duplicate
resources when consolidating projects' it is explained how you can eliminate
the duplicate resource names, i.e. unlinking the subprojects from their
source file. This works, but has the disadvantage that all tasks lose the
connection to the original project file. The result is that the load per
resource is correct and the tasks that cause the load are visible in the
resource views. But not visible is to which project each task belongs (all
tasks now belong to the consolidating project).
Is there a solution for this, i.e. merging the resource pool files of the
separate projects, adding a project ID to each task that ìs visible in the
resource views, or otherwise? (At this time I am not considering using
Enterprise Projects).
Thanks for your help, Hans Flippo