By consolidating related projects into a master project, we can organize and manage complex projects or multiple related projects more effectively. There can also be links between the tasks of subprojects within this consolidated project plan.
Steps to create Master Project through Project Web Access
1. Log On to Project Web Access
2. Navigate to Project Center
3. Select the projects that you want to analyze (You can select multiple project by pressing ctrl key and selecting the project)
4. From the Actions menu Edit – read only
Note: This will add the selected subprojects as read only in master project else the linkage becomes two ways (i.e. changes in the consolidated/master file will change the inserted projects and changes in the inserted projects will change the master file).
5. This will create a new master project containing the selected projects
6. Then Save and Publish the Project Plan.