We are using MS Project 2003 (but this happens in 2007 also) and are using 
the master/consolidated project function.  We have inserted about 13 sub 
projects and there are many (thousands) of links between the plans.  Because 
we're linking between plans, the predecessors & sucessors fields show the 
path of the subproject being linked to/from.  The plans reside on a shared 
drive on a server and so the paths are long.  Therefore after 2-3 links on 
one task, the field doesn't show all of the predecessors (or sucessors), it 
just inserts a "..." for each additional link.  

Has anyone ever experienced this before?  Is there a way to avoid this?  
It's hard to see what's been linked with this abbreviation.  I have used the 
links to other plans tool, but that can be time consuming to find the 
individual task in that screen and doesn't really help because I need the 
pred/succ fields to show up on views and reports.  I tried mapping a drive to 
the folder where the plans are, but Project still shows the entire path.

Any suggestions?

Hello,

In the Task Information dialog (Predecessors tab) for a specific task, don't 
you see all the predecessors?

G�rard Ducouret

"mdevito" <mdevito@discussions.microsoft.com> a �crit dans le message de 
news: 993E82AF-37A1-4CBC-B5EA-26A9984E67E4@microsoft.com...
> We are using MS Project 2003 (but this happens in 2007 also) and are using
> the master/consolidated project function.  We have inserted about 13 sub
> projects and there are many (thousands) of links between the plans. 
> Because
> we're linking between plans, the predecessors & sucessors fields show the
> path of the subproject being linked to/from.  The plans reside on a shared
> drive on a server and so the paths are long.  Therefore after 2-3 links on
> one task, the field doesn't show all of the predecessors (or sucessors), 
> it
> just inserts a "..." for each additional link.
>
> Has anyone ever experienced this before?  Is there a way to avoid this?
> It's hard to see what's been linked with this abbreviation.  I have used 
> the
> links to other plans tool, but that can be time consuming to find the
> individual task in that screen and doesn't really help because I need the
> pred/succ fields to show up on views and reports.  I tried mapping a drive 
> to
> the folder where the plans are, but Project still shows the entire path.
>
> Any suggestions? 

When this happens the only place you will be able to see all of the 
predecessors is in the Task Information dialog (doubeclick on a task) as 
G�rard mentions or in a split screen showing Predecessors and Successors 
(choose Windows-Split, select the bottom pane and select 
Format-Details-Predecessors & Successors). The Predecessor/Successors field 
cannot be made to display more than 255 characters and this gets filled up 
fast with lots of dependencies to subprojects on networks... It would be 
nice for Project to allow for an abbreviated path here but it can't do that 
either.


"G�rard Ducouret" <ducouret.gerardREMOVETHIS@THATfree.fr> wrote in message 
news:%23GvixgEdKHA.1592@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> Hello,
>
> In the Task Information dialog (Predecessors tab) for a specific task, 
> don't you see all the predecessors?
>
> G�rard Ducouret
>
> "mdevito" <mdevito@discussions.microsoft.com> a �crit dans le message de 
> news: 993E82AF-37A1-4CBC-B5EA-26A9984E67E4@microsoft.com...
>> We are using MS Project 2003 (but this happens in 2007 also) and are 
>> using
>> the master/consolidated project function.  We have inserted about 13 sub
>> projects and there are many (thousands) of links between the plans. 
>> Because
>> we're linking between plans, the predecessors & sucessors fields show the
>> path of the subproject being linked to/from.  The plans reside on a 
>> shared
>> drive on a server and so the paths are long.  Therefore after 2-3 links 
>> on
>> one task, the field doesn't show all of the predecessors (or sucessors), 
>> it
>> just inserts a "..." for each additional link.
>>
>> Has anyone ever experienced this before?  Is there a way to avoid this?
>> It's hard to see what's been linked with this abbreviation.  I have used 
>> the
>> links to other plans tool, but that can be time consuming to find the
>> individual task in that screen and doesn't really help because I need the
>> pred/succ fields to show up on views and reports.  I tried mapping a 
>> drive to
>> the folder where the plans are, but Project still shows the entire path.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>
>
> 

Window/Split
In the bottom pane, right click on a whitespace area and select predecessors 
and successors.  You can scroll through and see all of them.  However, the 
path is going to be obscured because the column is narrow.

To see the full path, select one of the predecesors by clicking in the ID 
column of the bottom pane.  The full path will display in the Excel like 
"Formula bar" just above where all the tasks start and the toolbars stop.

Does that help?
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"mdevito" wrote:

> We are using MS Project 2003 (but this happens in 2007 also) and are using 
> the master/consolidated project function.  We have inserted about 13 sub 
> projects and there are many (thousands) of links between the plans.  Because 
> we're linking between plans, the predecessors & sucessors fields show the 
> path of the subproject being linked to/from.  The plans reside on a shared 
> drive on a server and so the paths are long.  Therefore after 2-3 links on 
> one task, the field doesn't show all of the predecessors (or sucessors), it 
> just inserts a "..." for each additional link.  
> 
> Has anyone ever experienced this before?  Is there a way to avoid this?  
> It's hard to see what's been linked with this abbreviation.  I have used the 
> links to other plans tool, but that can be time consuming to find the 
> individual task in that screen and doesn't really help because I need the 
> pred/succ fields to show up on views and reports.  I tried mapping a drive to 
> the folder where the plans are, but Project still shows the entire path.
> 
> Any suggestions?