Project 2000. Using Multiple Projects, страница 4

Microsoft Project 98 – When attempting to open in Microsoft Project 98, you will fail. You cannot open Microsoft Project 2000 files in Microsoft Project 98.

Microsoft Project 2000 – When you open in Microsoft Project 2000, you will be able to open both the master and subprojects. However, if you apply any new features to a sub-project, you will lose them when you save the sub-project in the Microsoft Project 98 format. For a detailed list of what features will be lost, please refer to the new feature list in Module 1.

Scenario 3 – Resource Pool in Microsoft Project 98 format, some sharers in Microsoft Project 2000 format

Microsoft Project 98 – When attempting to open the pool and all sharers in Microsoft Project 98, those sharers that are in the Microsoft Project 2000 format will not open. Instead, the resource pool will use replicated assignment data for these sharers.

Microsoft Project 2000 – Everything will open correctly when opening the resource pool and all sharers in Microsoft Project 2000. However, if the sharers use new features, these will not be saved to the resource pool. When opening the resource pool and sharers the next time, the resource pool may overwrite the share data or vice versa, depending on the precedence settings and the type of data in question.

Data may be overwritten if using a resource pool and sharers of different versions and one of the files uses features new to Microsoft Project 2000. This is because Microsoft Project 2000 features will not be saved in a Microsoft Project 98 files. Thus when files are saved, the data between the resource pool and the sharer become out of sync. When they are re-opened together, one or the other may overwrite the other. Which overwrites which is determined by the precedence setting found in the Share Resources dialog box titled “On conflict with calendar or resource information.”

For assignment data, the sharer will always take precedence. For resource data, the precedence setting determines which file will overwrite which. For example, in Scenario 3 where a Microsoft Project 2000 sharer uses a new feature like Task Calendars or Estimated Durations, data for these features does not get saved to the resource pool (which is saved in the Microsoft Project 98 format.) When the files are next opened together, all assignment information from the sharer file overwrites the assignment information in the resource pool. Thus estimated duration information will be copied over. However, resource data from the resource pool may overwrite that in the sharer if “Pool takes precedence” is set. Thus data for any new features used in the sharer (that is, Material Resources or Resource Availability) will be overwritten and lost.

Scenario 4 – Resource Pool in Microsoft Project 2000 format, some sharers in Microsoft Project 98 format

Microsoft Project 98 – The pool and the sharers in the Microsoft Project 2000 format cannot be opened. Only sharers saved in the Microsoft Project 98 format can be opened.

Microsoft Project 2000 – All files will open correctly in Microsoft Project 2000. However, like Scenario 3, if you use new features in any of the files, that data will only be saved to the Microsoft Project 2000 format file. In this case it would save to the resource pool. Thus data between the resource pool and the sharer would become out of sync and may be overwritten.

Scenario 5 – Cross-project links from a task in a Microsoft Project 98 file to a task in a Microsoft Project 2000 file

Microsoft Project 98 – When opening a Microsoft Project 98 file with a cross-project link to a Microsoft Project 2000 file, the link will show with a task name of “Inserted 2000 Link.” When you attempt to open the project by double clicking the task, you receive an error message indicating that the file cannot be opened. This is because Microsoft Project 98 cannot open a Microsoft Project 2000 format file.

Microsoft Project 2000 – When opening a Microsoft Project 2000 file with a link to a Microsoft Project 98 file, the link will appear correctly. However, the ghost task in the Microsoft Project 98 file will not save any data from a new feature.