Alternatives to Cross Project Links

Hi,
Cross Project Links (External Tasks) is an out-of-the-box feature that allows to create dependencies between workplans.
The basic functionality has not changed from Project Server 2003 (or ever in earlier versions) to Project Server 2013, including Project Online.
Unfortunately it would be an understatement to say that it is not the ideal tool for creating dependencies of this sort. For example, There is no mechanism to preview and approve schedule changes (except the notorious "Links Between Project"
form), creating a dependency requires opening the all related workplans, there are many bugs associate to that, and this list goes on.
I'm looking for a 3rd party add-on that provides an alternative to Cross Project Links. What other tools would you recommend?
p.s. I've heard of 'TPG ProjectLink'. Had anyone tried it?

Dominic,
I have to be honest
that I'm familiar only with the deliverables feature on Project Server 2007, and not with any updates on 2010 and 2013 versions.
I have invested many
hours in investigation of this tool and read documentation by Microsoft and bloggers, and reach the conclusion that this is not the right tool for me.
As far as I know,
the deliverables feature has not been changed dramatically in the 2013 version, therefore I'm looking the alternatives.

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We currently have a dynamic master-subproject plan and resource pool, with 8 workstream plans and approximately 150 program milestones in the master. We are considering creating cross-project links to the 150 program milestones - from the master
into the sub-projects. I have read that it is best practice to keep cross-project links to a minimum. Is what we are considering too much? Will 150 links from master to sub-projects risk a corrupted plan?
Thanks in advance...
Art

Yes the cross-project links also use old DDE technology which is where the file corruption risk is. Move, rename, overwrite or store on a WAN and the file corruption dice roll. Its when not if, but you can be lucky and survive many months.
What do I do? If Project Online/Server and its deliverables feature is not available then being a bit of a VBA whiz:
I copy all milestones weekly to SQL Server using a VBA macro.
In other projects I have a macro to select one of those milestones and record teh project number, title and task unique id into a text field.
I then have a macro that finds all tasks with data from step 2 and reads the latest date from SQL Server and updates the task start date.
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Art, with the number of files and links it might be time to experiment with Project Online.
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Author of the one and only Project VBA Book
www.project-systems.co.nz

Cross Project Linking

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As soon as the project manager can open (in edit mode) the 2 projects, he just has to open a temporary empty project, insert the 2 projects, link the milestones, close the temporary master project without saving it but saving the 2 projects. A more tedious
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7. I click-dragged the library.a file under the library project so that it was under the Link Binary With Library sub folder of my app's target.
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I managed to fix the problem. The steps above seem to be correct. The problem seems to be related to the source trees that are defined...
I was previously using an absolute path for the source tree which pointed at the folder containing the library project. I changed this to a relative path to the same folder (relative from the calling project) and this seems to fix it.
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Text Insets and Cross Reference Links

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Unfortunately, that's the way insets work in FM. Cross-refs within an inset do not automatically become active. If you convert the inset to text, then the links are made. I believe that Rick Quatro wrote a Framescript to handle this in an automated way.
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BI Report in Web UI - Cross Navigational Link

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Sub conttacting purchase order with Project link

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The Bookmark Panel to the left of the pdf is not displaying - I have checked everything (and double checked under preferences to ensure that under Documents > Open Settings > Restore last view settings when reopening documents is Not checked.)
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Cross-file links failing under Linux

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FM 9 p250 on WinXP Pro SP3
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I am struggling with links across PDF files. They all work in Windows, but some work and some don't under Red Hat Enterprise 4 Linux.
I am using the following directory structure to create a hierarchy of "menu" pages with links to other PDFs:
C:\nCode Desktop 6.0 ISR2\nCode Desktop 6.0 ISR2\source_docs\contents\Draft for .fm files and .book files; C:\nCode Desktop 6.0 ISR2\nCode Desktop 6.0 ISR2\source_docs\contents\Draft\graphics for graphics.
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Your links look okay, directory-wise.
A link would be traversing the root directory if, say, the document is in some subdirectory below C:\nCode Desktop 6.0 ISR2\ and the target was in, say, C:\nCode Masters 6.0 ISR2\....blah blah or on a different disk.
One other thing: Maybe it's just me and my UNIX background, but using spaces in pathnames or filenames just feels like you're asking for trouble, especially if you want the end product to be portable to other platforms.
If the links are relative and they work on Windows, as you say they do, then my guess is that Reader on Linux is the problem. Try viewing them using xpdf on Linux and see if the links work then.
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I'd be interested to know if you trace the problem to Reader on Linux, and if you find a Reader version later than 8.1.2 on Linux that works.
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Forcing "Open cross-document links in same window" to be unchecked

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I am distributing a PDF document set where there is one PDF with well over a hundred links to other PDFs which are located in sub-folders.
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It will be simplest for users if they have "Open cross-document links in same window" unchecked.
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Project Lite users cannot see Project link on Office365 toolbar

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I am trying to run the excelreportdemo project in CVI2010 on windows 7, 64-bit operating system. I have the Excel2013 installed as well. I have chosen the build configuration as release or debug for 32 bit system so to be compatible for the test platform for production.
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Solved!
Go to Solution.

The previous discussion link is pasted below:
http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabWindows-CVI/Problems-adding-the-activex-instrument-experiencing-undefined/m-p/580608/highlight/true#M31390
It did not solve my problem, but may spark your idea of helping me.
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Is it possible to delete all cross-reference links in a PDF at once?

I have a 577 page PDF with multiple cross-references on each page.
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