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    - Integrating 3 Schedules and Tracking Slips My company and 2 others are working together on building a product, and have been asked to integrate all of our schedules. After discussion, we are going to use an approach such that we create a Master "shell" schedule, that links to the sub-schedules. Since all 3 companies are working as a collaborative effort, there are dependencies between each company. Company A cannot start work until Company B finishes their portion. In order to properly track these tasks, we are going to create milestones in the Master Shell, that link to each company's task so that we can easily track when something is slipping or not. If Company A slips their finish date by 1 week, then that will push the Shell Milestone, which will then push Company B's start date. We chose to have this milestone's in a seperate schedule/section to easily track deliverables. Whenever the shell schedule is opened, it automatically links to the subschedules, and get's the most up to date information. My question is, is there an easy reporting mechanism, in project that shows how many dates each milestone moves? I am looking for like a Before/After snapshot of the effects of updating each company's schedule. Thanks for your help! Tag: Custom Fields in Project Tag: 79942
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    - printing is there a way to "print all" projects? thank you Tag: Custom Fields in Project Tag: 79940
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    - Default View I would like to have the default view of my Project file to be the Gantt Chart. I have followed the directions of the help file: Tools -> Options, click on the View tab and select the default view you wish. However, I have this set to Gantt and when I open the file, it always opens in the Resource Usage view. When opening the file, I can see the Gantt view for a brief second and then the Resource Usage view opens instead. I have tried changing the default view to other settings but the Resource Usage one is all that will open on default. Any ideas on how to correct this? Julie Tag: Custom Fields in Project Tag: 79939
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    - Actual work changes when importing a project While importing some project-files (Project 2002, non- enterprise) to project 2003 server (enterprise projects), I noticed that for some projects the actual work that has been entered by the resources differs between imported file and original files. The sum of actual work for the task remains the same, but the hours are spread differently. I need to keep the original values. The redistribution happens when starting the import wizard for enterprise projects (immediately after selecting the file). Only some resources and tasks seem to be affected. Any ideas? Tag: Custom Fields in Project Tag: 79932
  - 5
    - help! Hello, Can I use Microsoft Sharepoint Team Services 1.0 to share documents and other in Project Server 2003? Thanks! Tag: Custom Fields in Project Tag: 79926
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    - Outlining tasks in subprojects How can I have better control in outlining tasks of subprojects and the Master Project so that they are in synch,,i.e., they have the same outline structure. When I try to adjust (indent, outdent) the task outline , MS Project prohibits me from doing it. How can I better control? Thanks Tag: Custom Fields in Project Tag: 79925
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    - Variance graph hi, I am looking to generate a planned vs. actual variance graph (in Excel) for the % Complete column in Project. I would like to use this metric to identify the delta in progress for the project completion and identify schedule slip. Can this be done through a wizard or other Project interface? A VB script? thanks, Yaron. Tag: Custom Fields in Project Tag: 79924
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    - is scheduling from a finish date the best way to approach this scenario Hi Guys normally i try to avoid scheduling from a finish date, but i've come across a project question that seems to only really be possibly by doing this and i'm wondering if i'm approaching this from the right angle. the project is to schedule the advertising and recruitment of a large number of people over a 12 - 18 month period. The recruitment process for each employee takes up to 100 days and the employment process needs to be staggered over this period. So employee 1 needs to commence on 1 May 2005, employee 1500 needs to commence on 1 August 2006 - if the company is to commence trading on 1 Sept 2006. These dates are dependent on the expected commencement date of the company trading which is still in the "feasibility" stage at the moment. So what they're looking for is to say, if the company was to commence trading on 1 Sept 2006 when does employee 1's recruitment process have to start ... if the company's trading date commencement is the 1 Nov 2006 when does employee 1's recruitment process have to start etc. Currently the project is set up to schedule from a finish date with a project finsih date of 1 Sept 2006, Each employee's recruitment process is listed out with the employee title as the summary task and a milestone at the end which is linked to the project finish milestone with a lag to give the "right" gap (ie the main manager needs to be on-board 16 months prior to the commencement of trading) etc. Any ideas / comments / suggestions Cheers julieD Tag: Custom Fields in Project Tag: 79922
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    - Linking to summary tasks One of our customers at work recently suggested that linking to a summary task wasn't good practice. Does anybody agree and can suggest why this is so? Sometimes we have lots of lower level tasks and if a summary task cannot be linked to then it will involve lots of seperate links. Tag: Custom Fields in Project Tag: 79911
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    - Master Projects I have created a template to use for creating individual similar projects. I have also created a shared resource pool. Becuase the individual projects are similar and I am using a template, a lot of the task names remain the same across projects. The difficulty arises when trying to join the individual projects into a master project. When looking at the various views, tables, etc, for example resource usage, it is impossible for me to tell which of the individual projects the task names refer to. Is there an easy way to identify the individual project tasks within the different views? I'm working in Project 2003. (this is my first posting, so I hope I'm making myself clear enough). Janet Tag: Custom Fields in Project Tag: 79904
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    - Updating the schedule with progress I am looking for help in identifying the best way to update a schedule for progress on a weekly basis. At the moment where I work we are just updating the dates and adding a % complete. However, I now think that it would be more realistic to do the following each week: Request a new finish date for any tasks that are already in progress Request an updated start date and duration of any tasks that should have started. Then update progress on the tasks through to the current date. I feel that this shows that tasks are taking longer for example and shows visibility of where the project is running late. I know that some people update the % complete and then re-schedule but we are reliant on our subcontractors updates and we need to be given finish dates from them really in order to notify another subcontractor when they can start a successor activity for example. Does any body have any views on this or an example of an updating process that you use. Thanks in advance for any views on this. Andy Tag: Custom Fields in Project Tag: 79903
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    - How can report MS project costs in financial periods instead of mo My company has finacial periods that go in weeks 4,4,5,4,4,5,4,4,5,4,4,5 etc. How can I report proect costs in periods rather than months? Tag: Custom Fields in Project Tag: 79900
  - 13
    - Error When importing Word Document I have Project 2003 Pro. I am able to import a visio document into the project file and a graphic, but when I attempt to create a new word document or import an existing word document I receive a "OLE Object Can not be displayed." error message. It also states to close all other programs to make more memory available. I have a 2.3 GHz Pentium 4 with a Gig of Ram and 15 Gigs of Hard drive space available on my primary drive. Any ideas? Tag: Custom Fields in Project Tag: 79887
  - 14
    - Customized Field in Project Pro 2003 I'm creating a customized field for graphical indicators. I am using tools, customize enterprise fields and select the radial button for project then text and under graphical indicators... I try to select project summary or summary rows but it keeps defaulting back to Nonsummary rows. Why ? Tag: Custom Fields in Project Tag: 79886
  - 15
    - MXM files In Project 2000 is it within licencing agreements to load the MGSETUP.EXE file on multiple workstations or do we have to buy a bunch of MS Project? Tag: Custom Fields in Project Tag: 79870
  - 16
    - Need a non-working day report from Project We use a grouped resource pool for all our company projects. To record Leave we set that persons leave period to 'non-working' time. To get back this information for all resources we need a report / table / view that tells us when this Leave has been entered. Can anyone please help ? Cheers. Tag: Custom Fields in Project Tag: 79869
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    - How to open an MPX file with in-place activation in IE? How is it possible to open an MPX file through a browser and have it open using "in-place activation", that is, opening inside of the browser window? Currently, MSproject opens separately and the MPX file is loaded into that window separate of the browser. What I am trying to do is have a web-based program (written in PHP) generate an MPX file and display a MSP2k-based gantt chart inside the IE browser window. Perhaps there is an OLE container available that runs in-place, but then load MSP passing it the MPX?.?? Any ideas would be appreciated.. thank you. Tag: Custom Fields in Project Tag: 79865
  - 18
    - Project provide way to identify driving predecessor (* maybe?) Project should provide a way to identify the driving prececessor and successor in the task details form or entry form. At first I thought it was the first one on the list, but that was not the case. Perhaps the driving pred/succ could be bold or have an asterick (*) beside it. If more than one, show multiple identifiers. Tag: Custom Fields in Project Tag: 79864
  - 19
    - Can I customize the Visio WBS Chart Wizard in Project2003? I am trying to generate a unified WBS chart in Visio2003 by using the MS Office Project2003 WBS Chart Wizard. It creates multiple pages automatically and I cannot figure out how to unify that information. Does anyone have any suggestions? Tag: Custom Fields in Project Tag: 79863
  - 20
    - How to know what custom fields use Is there quick way to identify the custom fields that have value entered OR are used (but hidden from display) in a project plan. Thanks bmac Tag: Custom Fields in Project Tag: 79859
  - 21
    - Re: Determining Calendar Days in MS Porject 2000 "John" <mjensen@theriver.com> a écrit dans le message de news:mjensen-897D4A.10353708032005@msnews.microsoft.com... > > > Hi John, > > Did you tried the formula on a task with "standard" duration (vs. elapsed > > duration) with or without any splits? > > > > Gérard > > Gerard, > If you reply please start a new thread. I normally have my newsreader > set for 100 messages and this one dropped "below my radar". I had to > remember to check. > > The file I used contains "standard" working day duration and no split > tasks. It is just your generic type file, nothing special or unusual. If > the Duration field is already in "edays" there isn't any need for the > formula, right? As far as split tasks, the elapsed duration is still the > difference between Start and Finish. The split simply becomes part of > that time. > > By the way I use a standard calendar (U.S. holidays) with 8 hour days > and 40 hour work week. It just doesn't make sense to put an additional > "fudge factor" into the formula without a good reason. So far, I haven't > seen that reason. > > John John, I tried again on Project 2000 (with a 40h/w calendar) and on Project 2003 (with a french 35h/w calendar) : the result is the same: all the calculations on standard durations are short by one day. On elapsed durations (with "ed"), the result is good. ??? ;-( Gérard Tag: Custom Fields in Project Tag: 79858
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    - Finish to finish depency question I have 3 tasks A, B, and C Suppose: Task A begins on Day 1 Task B ends on Day 10 Task C has a duration of 5 days. I want it to have a start to start dependency with Task A, and a finish to finish dependency + 2 days with B. The problem is that Project is scheduling task C to end on Day 12 and start on Day 7, even though it can potentially start on Day 1. I need task C to be scheduled on Day 1 because I am going to have another task with a start to start dependency with task C. As I am new to Project, I was curious as to how you would model this in Project to achieve my desired behavior. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Scott Tag: Custom Fields in Project Tag: 79857
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    - do do you remove/change out of "read only" project file everytime I try to save my msp file I receviec a msg that says the file is read only. When I look at the properties the read only is checked, but is also grayed out. How do I change it? Tag: Custom Fields in Project Tag: 79854
  - 24
    - Formulas in cost fields not saved I changed formulas in fields Cost1 thru Cost 8 but after I saved the project file the fields default back to the formulas I first created when I started the project file. How can I get project to accept the new formulas? Thanks in advance Dave Tag: Custom Fields in Project Tag: 79853
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    - how do i print all listed task on the Calander without having an. I am currently in calender view trying to print but my task listed on the calender are not show up and it print calender and an over-flow chart.How do I make all my task show on printed copy Tag: Custom Fields in Project Tag: 79852
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    - Problem with links and constraints I have a couple projects in which I linked all the tasks, and it set the time line up as expected. Now if I go into them and modify the "work" of a particular task, the task next in line does not adjust the start date accordingly. The constraint type is "as soon as possible", but no matter what I do with predecessors (even delete links altogether) the start date of the task in question does not change. I can modify the start date by actually changing the start date in the task information dialog, but I know I've had this work properly in the past. Any Clues??? TIA Mike Tag: Custom Fields in Project Tag: 79849
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    - Tracking changes In Project 2002 is it possible to use a track changes feature similar to word where changes can be accepted or rejected? Thanks Tag: Custom Fields in Project Tag: 79833
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    - Monthly Material Charge How do I get Project to allocate an even monthly charge, like Software Maintenance over the life of the program. I've tried to prorate a Fixed Cost, but it spreads it according to the days in each month, not evenly (same charge) for each month. Can this be done? Thanks... Tag: Custom Fields in Project Tag: 79827
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    - Upgrade from standard to Professional edition Can i upgrade from project standard to professional edition using the VUP package? thanks Tag: Custom Fields in Project Tag: 79824
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    - Issue with saveing project to Project Server Morning All, I am having to call upon your expertise once again. I will keep this problem high level. When a plan is created outside the Project Server, the end date and the leveling process is correct. If you click level project, the little bar in the bottom will click a few bars every few seconds. Everything works out great. But when you take the plan to the server it will ask you to replace the resouces with people that match in our resource pool's whos ids are pulled from Active Directory. I will click yes, then it will take all of the leveling out of the plan. MS Project will decided that everyone can work 30-40 hours in each day that they are assigned to a task. It seems it is stacking the tasks with the same start dates and not leveling them like it should, when I click level project I do clear out the prior leveling and it will be level in less than a second but the dates will not change to the correct date. Any help? Thanks CHris Tag: Custom Fields in Project Tag: 79823
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    - Duplicate Item Entries in Outlook Calendar from Project Server Hi, Has any one had problems with users with Outlook integration receiving multiple entries for the same project everytime the tasks are updated and re-published. Also when you try to delete the duplicates you receive an unknown Error code: 14. Thanks in advance Environment: Project 2003 Server, Project 2003, Exchange Server 2003, Outlook 2003 Tag: Custom Fields in Project Tag: 79818
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    - previoius version of project 2003 is installed, but not MSPROJECT 2003 does not let me install it. Keeps saying a previous version of MSPROJECT 2003 is installed. It is not. Tag: Custom Fields in Project Tag: 79816
  - 8
    - Actual hours in MSP Hi, We are trying to put weekly actual hours in Microsoft Project from our financial system through an import macro that we`ve created. However, we have the following problem: our month end date does not match. Ie. the end of the month in our financial system could be March 18th and in MSP, the month end date is March 31st. Is there a way to change this in MSP? (Also, our month end dates are never the same from month to month). The results of this problem is that our actuals at the end of the month never match between MSP and our financial system. Help? Thanks! Nat Tag: Custom Fields in Project Tag: 79812
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    - Timescale I have been asked to produce short term plan in hours. Can be done but timescale shows 1st hour as 0 then on up to 23 which is confusing for non-user. Can I change this?? Tag: Custom Fields in Project Tag: 79810
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    - How to make task duration of 3 calendar months, in MS Project Mana I would like to count 3 calader months (28/31/30 days) for a task. What is the syntex in the 'Duration' column? The syntax: 3 mons, and 3 emons, both does not do it. Tag: Custom Fields in Project Tag: 79805
  - 11
    - Allow computer administrators control times when other users can . Parental controls: Why not allow computer administrators yo control when users can log on by time: eg: after 16:00 any day and force log off giving 15, 10, 5, and one minuted notice> Tag: Custom Fields in Project Tag: 79802
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    - Can I assign an alternative resource in Project 2003 Professional. Is it possible to assign an alternative resource to a task so that Project can chose which resource to use given the availablity of resources after applying Resource Levelling? For example, I have a task that either Dave or Mary can do, but I only need one of them to carry it out. Normally, I would assign either one or the other to the task but it would be useful if i could tell Project that either Dave or Mary could be assigned the task, depending on assignments. Tag: Custom Fields in Project Tag: 79792
  - 13
    - Earned Values are not calculated? Why does MS Project does not calculate the BCWS and BCWP values of my project (the value is = 0)? The tasks have values for duration, work and have resources assigned. I can insert a progress, but only the EAC, CV and VAC values are calculated. Any hint is welcome. Tag: Custom Fields in Project Tag: 79790
  - 14
    - Levelling Issue I have a multi-phase project with an important milestone for delivery of Phase 1. When I resource level my project I get a very un-even profile with large peaks and troughs for the developers pool. I would like to maintain a steady number of developers on the project by putting them to work on activities from Phase 2 during the periods in Phase 1 when they are not needed. However, when I remove the dependancy of Phase 2 only starting after phase 1 has finished, the Phase 1 milestone is pushed out due to resources being used on Phase 2. All Phase 1 activities are higher up the plan than Phase 2 activities (ie lower ID numbers). I have tried lowering the priority of all Phase 2 activities and levelling by "Priority, Standard" and "ID Number" but this still happens to a greater or lesser degree. Any ideas on how to get a more realistic resource usage without pushing the Phase1 delivery back? Tag: Custom Fields in Project Tag: 79789
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    - access on project Hello, how many people can i connect on the project on the same time? Tag: Custom Fields in Project Tag: 79788
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    - visio project interface 1. I would like to know whether the visio & project having an interface between them, i want to update the visio file with schedule stenciles(start, finish & duration cells) with current data that i'm having in the project and vice versa. pls apply yours respond with the version comparison. Tag: Custom Fields in Project Tag: 79787
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    - In Project 2000, Gantt Chart bars don't show what is in Gantt tab. In Project 2000, Gantt Chart bars don't show what is in Gantt table when I zoom out. It is ok when i am zoomed in to less tan 1 hour time frame, but not as I zoom out further. How do I fix???. Tag: Custom Fields in Project Tag: 79784
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    - project should let me change the default start finish times in ca. It is confusing to have default working hours that have no meaning for my workplace. To have everyday set to "non-default working" just to alter the start time to 9:00am is too messy and confusing. Please let us change what is considered to be the "Default" working day. ie add a "Change Default" button to Tools | Change Working Time.... -- Richard Melbourne Australia Tag: Custom Fields in Project Tag: 79780
  - 19
    - Saved pictures in MSO Picture Manager?... How do I stop all pictures from being saved in MSO Picture Manager?... Tag: Custom Fields in Project Tag: 79776
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    - Project 2000 dates not correct when I change project calendar I set up a calendar where I define 6 hours to the day and 30 hours for the week. If I put in a project for 30 hours, it shows a duration of 5 days but the start and finish dates are less than 5 days in duration. They are four days which I believe is due to the dates being caculated based on 8 hour days. Its got my whole project out of sync! Tag: Custom Fields in Project Tag: 79775
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    - How can I get MS Project Std02 to install over Office Pro 2003? It all seems to go OK, before the message "rolling back installation" and finishes with "MS project standard 2002 successfully installed", although it hasn't. I'm running XPPro SP1 on an HP tablet 1100. Tag: Custom Fields in Project Tag: 79773
  - 22
    - Multi language projects on Project 2003 server? Is it possible to publish projects of different languages to project server? and from a portfolio perspective, could we track both English and different language status? Tag: Custom Fields in Project Tag: 79772
  - 23
    - I NEED TO KNOW HOW TO GET A HEADER ON TWO LINES AND THEN DROP DOW. I AM DOING INVENTORY SHEET,I HAVE TWO HEADER'S AT THE TOP,HOW DO YOU GET THEM BOTH ON SHEET,IT WILL ONLY LET ME PUT ONE? AFTER THAT I NEED COLUMNS WITH LETTERS AT THE TOP OF THEM.AND I AM HAVING TROUBLE GETTING THAT TO WORK.AFTER THAT I WILL PUT IN LIKE A6*D6TO TOTAL AUTOMATIC THE AMOUNT ON THE SHEET AND I KNOW YOU CAN GO DOWN ONE COLUMN AND PROGRAM THE WHOLE THING . THE COLUMNS I MEAN WITH LINES GOING DOWN TO DIVIDE THE SUBJECT IN THAT COLUMN. I AM USING MICROSOFT WORD 2000. THANK YOU Tag: Custom Fields in Project Tag: 79766
  - 24
    - Project Server We are looking to acquire MS Project Server and Project web Access for 25 > users. We have MS project 2002 Professional. > > Can someone provide information or links to information in the following.. > 1. Software Licensing and support costs Costs for Project Server and PWA > 2. Approx. periodic costs to implement and maintain > 3. Hardware considerations and requirements > 4. Additional software required, eg. DB, > > Thank You Tag: Custom Fields in Project Tag: 79762
  - 25
    - Default calendar working hours are wrong Hello I installed Project Server 2003 in spanish in a Windows 2003 server in english. The server regional configuration is set to Costa Rica and Spanish. Everything is working fine, but when I open the Enterprise Global Template, the default working hours are from 9 am - 1 pm and 3 pm - 7 pm. I will like the default working hous to be from 8 am - 12 pm and 1 pm - 5 pm. So far the only way I have found to change the default working time is to set every working day to a non-default working time of 8 am - 12 pm and 1 pm - 5 pm. Project's documentation says that the default working time for the US is 8 am - 12 pm and 1 pm - 5 pm, I changed the server regional configuration to US, but it didn't change the calendar. Any ideas of what is wrong? Tag: Custom Fields in Project Tag: 79754

How can I create the same set of 14 custom fields for all the project files
I want to create and maintain. I know about Tools, Customize, Fields Menu,
but is there an easy and automatic way to establish the custom field names in
all my project files. Also I want to make sure that new custom fields I
create in the future are added to all my project files as well.

Thanks You.

Re: Custom Fields in Project by JackD

JackD
Wed Mar 09 14:25:34 CST 2005

Use the organizer (tools menu / organizer) to copy the fields from project
to project. You can also use the organizer to copy them to your global.mpt
file and they will be available for all your future project files.

--
-Jack ... For project information and macro examples visit
http://masamiki.com/project

.
"Harry" <Harry@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:199715A8-0C14-4B3E-9CAF-2DFA4CE1D228@microsoft.com...
> How can I create the same set of 14 custom fields for all the project
files
> I want to create and maintain. I know about Tools, Customize, Fields
Menu,
> but is there an easy and automatic way to establish the custom field names
in
> all my project files. Also I want to make sure that new custom fields I
> create in the future are added to all my project files as well.
>
> Thanks You.

RE: Custom Fields in Project by haixiang

haixiang
Wed Mar 09 20:25:02 CST 2005

Try to make a template for this kind of project with your custom fields even
value lists for these fields if you want

"Harry" wrote:

> How can I create the same set of 14 custom fields for all the project files
> I want to create and maintain. I know about Tools, Customize, Fields Menu,
> but is there an easy and automatic way to establish the custom field names in
> all my project files. Also I want to make sure that new custom fields I
> create in the future are added to all my project files as well.
>
> Thanks You.