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Cross Project Scheduling

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Can anyone help me with cross-project dependencies. I'm about to plan three direct mail projects to run one after the other, and I'd like to be able to link them so if anything changes in the first it flows through to the other two.
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I haven't actually used Cross-Project dependencies, but what specific question do you have? You can take your starting Task on your second project, and do a cross-project dependency on the last task on the 1st project. As the dates on the 1st project changes, it will change the dates on the 2nd project because of the cross-project dependency.

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Cross Project Dependencies are great. Please note though that you can only do it by going into the task itself and going to the Predecessor tab. You cannot do it from in-line editing.

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If you want the dates in your parent project to reflect the planned completion based on the cross-project predecessors, you can setup the dependencies as defined in the example below. If timelines change in the child projects, you have to manually recalculate the timeline of the parent project (or wait for it to happen automatically overnight). Parent Project Task 1 (Create cross project predecessor to Child Project 1, last task in project, Finish-Finish) Task 2 (Create cross project predecessor to Child Project 2, last task in project, Finish-Finish) Task 3 (Create cross project predecessor to Child Project 3, last task in project, Finish-Finish)