Milestone tracking in Master project plan

Hi,
  I have 6 projects(project 2010) and also need to have one master project. The master project should contain milestones of each of the 6 subprojects  so that the director could view status of milestones only.
Could you please suggest how should i go about this or pass references please to any sites
I dont use EPM server but only standalone project professional 2010
Thanks
mp

Hi, I would suggest to use the "marked" column to flag the milestones to track in each projects. Then in the master plan, just create a filter to display only marked milestones. Note that if you need to show all milestones in the master plan, you can simply
use the out of the box "milestone" flag.
Hope this helps,
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