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SAe Master Switch
By Ron Winter Consulting LLC, Copyright 2004
(770) 587-4903 or email at Ron@RonWinterConsulting.com.com

Most Schedulers find it quite easy and useful to create a master schedule and reference the various activities in it to activities or groups of activities in other schedules using inter-project relationships. Updates in the primary schedule are automatically reflected in your master schedule without any extra work.

The problem with this Master/Update Schedule arrangement lies in managing the schedule updates. If your schedule updates arrive as imported schedules, the new schedule update will not be automatically related to the Master Schedule. It is a painstaking process to deleted the relationships from the Master Schedule to the old schedule update and to add them to the new schedule update.

Master Switch solves this problem. All that you need to do is to identify the Master Schedule, the Old Update Schedule, and the New Update Schedule and Master Switch will switch all of your relationships from the old to the new schedule. This non-trivial process is executed quickly and a full report of the proceedings is generated for your review.

Below is a sample Master Switch output report.

MASTER SWITCH, Copyright Ron Winter Consulting LLC 2004


Master Schedule    : Master
Old Update Schedule: 1220
New Update Schedule: 1290
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Relationship [1220]80/FS/[Master]M10
    Relationship [1290]80/FS/[Master]M10 added.
    Deleted relationship [1220]80/FS/[Master]M10.

Relationship [1220]170/FS/[Master]M20
    Relationship [1290]170/FS/[Master]M20 added.
    Deleted relationship [1220]170/FS/[Master]M20.

Relationship [1220]170/FS/[Master]M40
    Relationship [1290]170/FS/[Master]M40 added.
    Deleted relationship [1220]170/FS/[Master]M40.

Relationship [1220]180/FS/[Master]M20
    Relationship [1290]180/FS/[Master]M20 added.
    Deleted relationship [1220]180/FS/[Master]M20.

Relationship [1220]180/FS/[Master]M40
    Relationship [1290]180/FS/[Master]M40 added.
    Deleted relationship [1220]180/FS/[Master]M40.

Relationship [1220]190/FS/[Master]M20
    Relationship [1290]190/FS/[Master]M20 added.
    Deleted relationship [1220]190/FS/[Master]M20.

Relationship [1220]190/FS/[Master]M40
    Relationship [1290]190/FS/[Master]M40 added.
    Deleted relationship [1220]190/FS/[Master]M40.

Relationship [1220]200/FS/[Master]M20
    Relationship [1290]200/FS/[Master]M20 added.
    Deleted relationship [1220]200/FS/[Master]M20.

Relationship [1220]200/FS/[Master]M40
    Relationship [1290]200/FS/[Master]M40 added.
    Deleted relationship [1220]200/FS/[Master]M40.

Relationship [1220]210/FS/[Master]M20
    Relationship [1290]210/FS/[Master]M20 added.
    Deleted relationship [1220]210/FS/[Master]M20.

Relationship [1220]210/FS/[Master]M40
    Relationship [1290]210/FS/[Master]M40 added.
    Deleted relationship [1220]210/FS/[Master]M40.

Relationship [1220]220/FS/[Master]M20
    Relationship [1290]220/FS/[Master]M20 added.
    Deleted relationship [1220]220/FS/[Master]M20.

Relationship [1220]220/FS/[Master]M40
    Relationship [1290]220/FS/[Master]M40 added.
    Deleted relationship [1220]220/FS/[Master]M40.

Relationship [1220]230/FS/[Master]M20
    Relationship [1290]230/FS/[Master]M20 added.
    Deleted relationship [1220]230/FS/[Master]M20.

Relationship [1220]230/FS/[Master]M40
    Relationship [1290]230/FS/[Master]M40 added.
    Deleted relationship [1220]230/FS/[Master]M40.

Relationship [1220]1930/FS/[Master]M60
    Relationship [1290]1930/FS/[Master]M60 added.
    Deleted relationship [1220]1930/FS/[Master]M60.

Relationship [1220]1930/FS/[Master]M70
    Relationship [1290]1930/FS/[Master]M70 added.
    Deleted relationship [1220]1930/FS/[Master]M70.

Relationship [1220]1940/FS/[Master]M60
    Relationship [1290]1940/FS/[Master]M60 added.
    Deleted relationship [1220]1940/FS/[Master]M60.

Relationship [1220]1940/FS/[Master]M70
    Relationship [1290]1940/FS/[Master]M70 added.
    Deleted relationship [1220]1940/FS/[Master]M70.

Relationship [1220]1950/FS/[Master]M60
    Relationship [1290]1950/FS/[Master]M60 added.
    Deleted relationship [1220]1950/FS/[Master]M60.

Relationship [1220]1950/FS/[Master]M70
    Relationship [1290]1950/FS/[Master]M70 added.
    Deleted relationship [1220]1950/FS/[Master]M70.

Relationship [1220]2170/FS/[Master]M60
    * Relationship [1290]2170/FS/[Master]M60 added.
    Deleted relationship [1220]2170/FS/[Master]M60.

Relationship [1220]2170/FS/[Master]M70
    * Relationship [1290]2170/FS/[Master]M70 added.
    Deleted relationship [1220]2170/FS/[Master]M70.

Relationship [1220]2180/FS/[Master]M60
    WARNING: No matching activity in New Update Scehdule.
    Deleted relationship [1220]2180/FS/[Master]M60.

Relationship [1220]2180/FS/[Master]M70
    WARNING: No matching activity in New Update Scehdule.
    Deleted relationship [1220]2180/FS/[Master]M70.

Relationship [1220]2190/FS/[Master]M60
    WARNING: No matching activity in New Update Scehdule.
    Deleted relationship [1220]2190/FS/[Master]M60.

Relationship [1220]2190/FS/[Master]M70
    WARNING: No matching activity in New Update Scehdule.
    Deleted relationship [1220]2190/FS/[Master]M70.

Relationship [1220]2260/FS/[Master]M60
    Relationship [1290]2260/FS/[Master]M60 added.
    Deleted relationship [1220]2260/FS/[Master]M60.

Relationship [1220]2260/FS/[Master]M70
    Relationship [1290]2260/FS/[Master]M70 added.
    Deleted relationship [1220]2260/FS/[Master]M70.

Relationship [1220]2270/FS/[Master]M60
    * Relationship [1290]2270/FS/[Master]M60 added.
    Deleted relationship [1220]2270/FS/[Master]M60.

Relationship [1220]2270/FS/[Master]M70
    * Relationship [1290]2270/FS/[Master]M70 added.
    Deleted relationship [1220]2270/FS/[Master]M70.

Relationship [1220]2280/FS/[Master]M60
    WARNING: No matching activity in New Update Scehdule.
    Deleted relationship [1220]2280/FS/[Master]M60.

Relationship [1220]2280/FS/[Master]M70
    WARNING: No matching activity in New Update Scehdule.
    Deleted relationship [1220]2280/FS/[Master]M70.

Relationship [1220]2340/FS/[Master]M60
    WARNING: No matching activity in New Update Scehdule.
    Deleted relationship [1220]2340/FS/[Master]M60.

Relationship [1220]2340/FS/[Master]M70
    WARNING: No matching activity in New Update Scehdule.
    Deleted relationship [1220]2340/FS/[Master]M70.

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Rel. Key: [pred. schedule name] pred. Activity ID / relationship / [succ. schedule name] succ. Activity ID.
Note: Lines preceeded by a "*" indicate that the task descriptions did not match.

Master Switch run is complete.