Level of effort Predecessors & Successors

Is it OK for a level of effort activity to have more than
one predecessor and/or successor? what are the
consequences of doing that?
I know
it is possible to assign more than one predecessor or
successor. My question is as to whether it will be a
problem if I did so.
Cheers

OK, I have discovered why this happens. 
Two projects, the second one begins
with a FS to the first's end.
 The LOE activity in the first project has a
successor in the second projcet, an external
relationship.
In this exact
scenario, LOEs will have a negative float!

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Prim9087 references the following: 
 
Solution ID: prim29225
 How are the Early Start and Early Finish dates
calculated on a Level of Effort activity? 
Status: Reviewed 
Version(s): 4.1, 5.0 
Problem:
How does an LOE calculate the ES and EF dates? 
Problem: What
relationships are used when calculating the Early
Start (ES) and Early Finish (EF) of an LOE activity?
Problem: How are the Early
Start (ES) and Early Finish (EF) dates calculated on a
Level of Effort (LOE) activity?
 Fix: A Level of Effort (LOE) activity obtains its
Early Start as the earliest date among the following
dates:
Earliest ES from SS
predecessors
Earliest EF from FS
predecessors
Earliest EF from SF
successors
Earliest ES from SS
successors
A Level of Effort (LOE) activity
obtains its Early Finish as the latest date from the
following dates:
Latest ES from
FS successors
Latest EF from FF successors
Latest ES from SF predecessors Latest EF from FF predecessors
 If you're not on Primavera Maintenance, you don't
have access to these KB articles, and that's the
easiest place to find solutions. You can sign up for
maintenance ($800 a year is very high, but I bit the
bullet), or read the documentation on the original
Primavera disks. It's searcheable.

Level of effort Predecessors & Successors

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