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From: Rob Schneider on 31 Mar 2010 03:39
As Ellen and Andrew said, this does work. The main reason is that
Project is not setup to make reference in the link to the file location
on the SP server. It can link to files on local drives and LAN file
shares ok, but not to folders/libraries in SP.

We find that it's normally not a good idea to let other people see and
use the Project MPP files anyway. Too many cooks in the pot spoil the
broth. Too many people--often people who really don't know how to use
Project anyway--just leads to problems with the MPP files getting
unnecessarily/incorrectly changed and even corrupted, in our experience.

But of course, people need to see the project plan. We achieve this in
SP by using ProjectPublisher, a 3rd party add-in, which syncs the
project into SharePoint. This same type of functionality is built into
the soon-to-be-released Project 2010. They way one or a few people (all
of whom know how Project works and are accountable/responsible for the
integrity of the contents of the MPP file) maintain the MPP files and
publish project info to the team. Those master/subproject files are
stored either in a local drive (best) or on the LAN share (do in a way
which reduces risk of corruption). We also version control the files MPP
files back into a SP library--but don't use those files directly. They
come in very handy when we need to go back to previous version.

--rms

www.rmschneider.com




On 30/03/10 19:59, Elvis wrote:
> When creating a mstr project I am having difficulty gettting a relative
> reference to the subprojects. I would like to be able to have the master use
> a relative reference to the subprojects so when I move them all from my
> laptop to a share point the master will look for the subs in the sharepoint
> folder and not the subprojects on my laptop. When people open the sharepoint
> mstr they cannot see anything. it is a blank schedule file.
>
> We do not use Project server on this program so while that would make my
> troubles go away that is not a solution. So much for the Easy Button!
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