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About Master Project and Subprojects

You can create a link between a project (master project) to a whole subproject or to parts of a subproject, such as a phase, activity, task, or milestone. You can associate any number of projects to a master project by inserting the subprojects into the master project. When you insert a whole subproject into the master project, you can choose to insert it in read/write or read-only mode. In contrast, when you insert a partial subproject into the master project, the subproject is always inserted in read-only mode.

The ability to establish subproject links means you can create plans and track and analyze an individual project in detail while viewing, summarizing, and analyzing the progress of several projects at a higher level. You can use the a master project with subprojects to perform top-down planning and to share resource availability across projects.

Keep the following in mind when working with master projects and subprojects:

• Each time you open the master project, Open Workbench retrieves all required subproject data from the appropriate subproject.
• If you autoschedule the master project, the dates for its read-only subprojects change, but only temporarily. When you save the master after autoscheduling, the changes you make are not saved in the subproject. Thus, you can autoschedule at the master-project level to do “what-if” scenarios on subprojects, and when you want to apply the changes, open the subproject and autoschedule it directly.

More information:

Manage Multiple Projects

Open CA Clarity PPM Projects using Open Workbench

Autoschedule Projects

Insert Subproject Tasks into Master Projects

Insert Subprojects into Master Projects