Cross Project Predecessors

Microsoft Project lets users link tasks within the current project, or to external projects. Cross-project predecessors are predecessors from another project. Aspose.Tasks support these too.

Working with Cross-Project Predecessor Tasks

In Aspose.Tasks for Java the CrossProjectName and IsCrossProject properties exposed by the TaskLink class are used to handle cross-project predecessors.

• CrossProjectName represents the external predecessor project (string).
• IsCrossProject determines whether a predecessor is part of another project (Boolean).

To manage cross-project predecessor tasks in Microsoft Project from the Tools menu, select Links between Projects.

Cross-project predecessors in Microsoft Project

Getting Cross-Project Predecessor Tasks using Aspose.Tasks

Here, we shall display predecessor and successor task traversing the task links in the project.

// For complete examples and data files, please go to https://github.com/aspose-tasks/Aspose.Tasks-for-Java
// The path to the documents directory.
String dataDir = Utils.getDataDir(CrossProjectPredecessors.class);

Project prj = new Project(dataDir + "project5.mpp");

for (TaskLink tsklnk : prj.getTaskLinks()) {
    if (tsklnk.isCrossProject())
        System.out.println(tsklnk.getCrossProjectName());
}