Hi All

I have done this before but I cant find my original instructions .
I want to make a new Global Template and have an icon on the desktop point to the new Global template. How do I do that

Many thanks in advance.

Look forward to hearing from anyone.

Kind regards



Tony

Hi All

I have now resolved the original issue however I have a new issue below:

I have created a new Global Template and placed it in a new location on my laptop. I have also created a shortcut to the new Global Template. I opened a new plan from the new template and removed all of the current custom fields and then saved the plan as a template to overwrite the new Global template. However when I open a new plan from the "new" global template all of the custom fields from the original template reappear. If I remove the custom fields from the new template the custome fields are removed from the standard Global template (thankfully I have a backup of those custom fields).
Has anyone else had this issue and if so how did you resolve it?
Look forward to hearing from anyone.

Kind regards

Tony

Hi Tony,

I'm assuming you've changed the "start in" folder to start using the selected template?

Are the custom fields in Global.mpt? If so they will automatically load.

Hi Julie

Many thanks for your response. I have changed the "Start in" to point to the "new" Global template. However it is still picking up the custom fields from the "Standard Global Template".
what I am trying to do is set up a template just to use for comparing two versions of the same plan. This is because we currently use some of the custom fields that the "Compare" function uses, so we dont get all the comparison results we need. So I created a new Global in the hope that I could remove any custom fields from that template and just use it for the compare function.

Hope this clarifies what I am trying to do.

Thanks

Tony

Hi Tony,

I think even though you created a new template, the Global.mpt file still loads in the background. Sorry - I don't know of any way to have Project not reference the Global.mpt file.

As a suggestion - don't store the custom fields in Global. Create a new template for the creation of the file - store the fields in that template. Remove the custom fields from Global.

I have had issues with errors being thrown while storing custom fields in Global when the supporting data isn't available.

Many thanks Julie.

Kind regards

Tony

Cheers, Tony.