Microsoft project 2007 multiple predecessors

Already a member? Close this window and log in. Join Us Close. Join Tek-Tips Forums! Join Us! By joining you are opting in to receive e-mail. Promoting, selling, recruiting, coursework and thesis posting is forbidden. Students Click Here. We have inserted about 13 sub projects and there are many thousands of links between the plans. The plans reside on a shared drive on a server and so the paths are long. Therefore after links on one task, the field doesn't show all of the predecessors or sucessors , it just inserts a " Has anyone ever experienced this before?

Is there a way to avoid this? It's hard to see what's been linked with this abbreviation. I have used the links to other plans tool, but that can be time consuming to find the individual task in that screen. Also, I need them to show up on reports. I tried mapping a drive to the folder where the plans are, but Project still shows the entire path.

I cannot think of any easy workaround -- based on the environment you describe -- for the display issue you have to deal with. You could write a smattering of VBA to visit each task and get all the predecessors and successors, too, I suppose and build up a string that you stored in the Notes field.

You would run this macro when you have the project opened it's easy enough to hook it to the Project Open event. I expect, however, that you're already using the Notes field so this is not likely to be a worthwhile approach. I will mull this over but I am not hopeful that I can come up with an easy-to-use approach. I chatted with a friend about your issue. He suggested that you navigate as far down the folder structure as possible, RightMouseButton on the folder, select Share from the context menu and assign a short share name.

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It may not display this or other websites correctly. You should upgrade or use an alternative browser. Multiple predecessors. Thread starter ben. As a completely new user to MS Project, I can't find a topic in help, and was wondering if anyone could give me a hand. How do you assign multiple predecessors to a task? I need two and sometimes three other tasks to be finished in a project before the next one can start.

Thank you in advance; Ben. Jim Aksel. Microsoft Project displays a pick list menu that displays the name of every task in the project, along with the ID number for each task. Each task in the pick list menu also includes a checkbox which you can select to designate that task as a predecessor to the selected task, such as shown in Figure 2. By the way, to shorten the menu shown in the figure, I collapsed the Carpentry, Electrical, Plumbing, and Telecommunications summary sections.

Notice in Figure 2 that I selected the checkboxes for the four milestone tasks in the Construction phase of the project to designate each of them a predecessor to the Construction Complete milestone task. For your own reference, the Successors column also includes the same menu shown previously in Figure 2, which means you can use either column to set multiple predecessors or multiple successors for a selected task. Also, keep in mind that when you set task dependencies by manually typing task ID numbers or by using the menu in either the Predecessors or Successors column, Microsoft Project will always set a Finish-to-Start dependency in response.

If you need one of the other three task dependencies, you must edit the dependency information for that task. He has used Microsoft Project since version 4. Review Title. Your Review. Sign me up for the newsletter. Remember Me.