Re: Features I'd love to see

Richard Hult wrote:

> >
> > Out of curiosity, does MrProject support any coordination between seperate
> > project files?  For example, if I allocate a resource in one project, does
> > it attempt to block that resource in others?  If it doesn't, I think that
> > would be the biggest (maybe only) drawback to maintaining multiple project
> > files.
>
> No, we don't have that. I'm not sure how to solve it the best way, but
> we probably want to have some kind of functionality like that in the
> future.

I have thought about what you would need to break out of your niche - Previously I
made comments about your approach but have since learned some things about Python
that allow me to make better sense of it - The fact remains that the ability to
deal with large projects means that you must break them in parts. I suggest you
map all your data onto a database and develop a background program to perform
selected schedule operations directly on the database - then you can separately
pull a dataset for each sub-project back into MrProject. You can pull a summary as
a 'master schedule' the same way. This approach at least squares the maximum
number of activities you can handle. You can also choose whether to allocate
resources globally or locally or even mix the modes however.