How can one apply a change to WBS to their Project Tasks?

[danb2015]

I am in the project category and created a project template from a base project I created.   In the template I was able to add a default name to the WBS.   Now each of my projects has the same default name in their WBS and even if I open the WBS field to editing on the Project form, changing it does not cascade down to each of the project tasks already created from the template.   Should this work or do I have to edit each WBS item manually?   Is there a way to to create a process to cycle through each project task and rename each associated WBS item based on the change made at the project level?

Thanks,

Dan

[kellykaufmann]

Can you help me better understand the end need? For example, I've worked at organizations that want standard PM naming/numbering in   WBS so they can be handled by accounting a certain way or so the PMO can quickly audit & make sure those tasks are in the WBS.

[danb2015]

It is more for the PMO, reporting and even the developers themselves.   When viewing a number of tasks at once, especially if they are similarly named, showing a named WBS will quickly identify that the task(s) in question belong to a particular structure.

[kellykaufmann]

I completely understand - one of my employers had a very large PMO and did the same. They   numbered the beginning of these tasks "0100 - task name" "0152 task name" etc. so they could find a specific task or artifact reference quickly. Until we find a way to do this with WBS, perhaps that could be a workaround. That also has the benefit of being able to search by task names as well.

[danb2015]

Thanks Kelly, That is essentially what we are doing, however not ideal.   Task names can get long in and of themselves and in some cases there is a limited number of characters being shown based on the column size so I would prefer to keep the task names pure.

I've considered this question "Assumed Answered" because the answer is technically "One Can't!"

Thanks for your help, we'll make do.