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Copying Relative Predecessors
Copying the entire row does help actually and seems to update some of the predecessors as I need (I was only copying certain fields and not the whole row).
However, I’m still finding that any tasks with a lag or a constraint date retain the original predecessor?
First of all, rest assured Project does NOT do random stuff.
You say you're using Project 2013. Is it fully updated? I believe the last update (Jan 2019) creates version 15.0.5101.1000. If that's not your version then I suggest you update. This won't necessarily have any impact on your issue but you are working with an older version of Project and updating is very important.
I tried a sequence of tasks with lag and with a constraint and in both cases the link updated as expected. But rather than attempting to do a hit and miss emulation of what you might have, please post a screen shot of a group of tasks that fail the copy and paste operation.
John
I have 2016 pro version and when i copy and paste it doesn't take the predessesor with it either?John-project
Are you copying and pasting the whole row?
I'd like to see a couple of screen shots, before and after.
John
When you copy a group of subtasks, any link (predecessor or successor) to tasks or subtasks outside this group, will be retained when you paste this group of subtasks.
I get round this problem by removing links to other tasks or groups of subtasks before a copy & paste.
