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Chapter 40. Links
The Links tab allows you to add, view and edit all of the Standard Links to external schedules in your
project. Task hierarchies can then be added to the Tasks tab and synchronized from the link. The Field
Selector Dialog determines various options used when importing data from a link.
40.1. The Links Tab
The Links tab shows all of the links to external schedules in your project, listed in a multi-column format.
The columns show link name, source (e.g. Microsoft Project™), project (e.g. my_schedule.mpp, and
link status. Any further columns (there maybe none) identify the fields from the external schedule which
specify the task type, unique id, start date and end date for each linked task.
The possible values for Status are:
Synchronized All linked tasks have the same values as the external schedule.
Old Linked tasks have values that are out of date compared to the external
schedule. Synchronize Tasks from Link to update the tasks.
Status Not Available Its not possible to determine whether tasks are Synchronized or Old. This
value only occurs for schedule sources that don't provide any way of
determining when a schedule was last updated.
Broken The external schedule can not be accessed. The file may have been moved or
deleted, or required software may be missing or not functioning correctly.
TimeLiner will still function using the task values determined when the link was
last synchronized.
All Link operations are performed via the context menu (accessed by right clicking in the Links tab). This
allows you to add, delete and edit links; rebuild the task hierarchy from the project file into TimeLiner;
synchronize existing tasks in TimeLiner with updated data in the project file.
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