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Old 03-23-2014, 02:44 PM
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Hi,

I have a large project with 12 workstreams at outline level 1.

What I want to do is have a field or fields which show:
  1. If there is a predecessor that goes from one workstream to another
  2. If there is a successor that goes from one workstream to another
  3. The name of the workstream that the presecessor / sucessor.
e.g. if workstream 1 (PW01) has a task with a successor in workstream PW04, I want a column that says "OUTWARD DEPENDENCY" then a second column that says "TO PW04". I have a column for each task which says its workstream number.


How can I make a formula that shows to which workstreams the dependencies go? I am specifically interested in ones that go across workstreams, but equally to show for all successors would be good.



Let me know if you can help
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Old 03-23-2014, 02:52 PM
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I don't believe you will get there through a custom formula. I think you'll need code (VBA) to loop through the tasks and return the predecessor/successor name and then summary task name.

I am not the person to help - but you may get some assistance through the MS Project forum for programming:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/...ct2010custprog
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Old 03-23-2014, 02:55 PM
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Ok thanks for the quick reply - Its frustrating as this would be quite easy with an Excel type vlookup formula. Im surprised there isnt a function built in to do this anyway. Maybe if i breakdown in to 12 subprojects I can do this?
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Old 03-24-2014, 08:03 AM
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Again - the issue is that you cannot return predecessor/successor names in a custom field. You can return ID numbers - but not names.
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