Interproject Relationships

You can create relationships between activities in different projects.

A project that contains a relationship to an activity in an unopened external subproject has a "foreign" activity that represents the other end of the inter-project relationship. When both projects are opened together, foreign activities are replaced by the original activities.

Open Plan allows you to create any of the following types of inter-project relationships:

• Relationships between activities in two projects
• Relationships between activities in a master project and an external subproject
• Relationships between activities in two different external subprojects

While both projects must be open at the time the relationship is created, they do not need to remain open.

In all cases, the relationships may be any of the standard types: Finish-to-Start, Start-to-Start, Start-to-Finish, or Finish-to-Finish.

Related Topics

• How a Network Displays a Hierarchy
• Interproject Calculations
• Characteristics of Internal Subproject Activities
• Using Ancillary Files with External Subprojects
• Adding and Removing Ancillary Files from a Master Project

Related Procedures

• Creating Interproject Relationships in a Network
• Creating a Relationship in a Barchart View with a Mouse
• Creating a Relationship in a Barchart View with the Keyboard
• Creating a Relationship in a Network View with the Keyboard
• Creating a Relationship in a Network View with a Mouse
• Creating a Relationship in a Spreadsheet View