How to see tasks in External Dependency "Task Selector" popup?

This is a follow-up to my previous question about being able to see across project plans.  (Cross-project report? To see dates from multiple project's plans within one report)

As an alternative to such a report, we are thinking about setting up a "portfolio" project with a plan that consists of milestone tasks that are made dependent on other projects' plan tasks.

However, we've run into an issue.  We set up the "portfolio" project and a plan and one task.  We set it to be a milestone task.  Now we want to add an external dependency/predecessor for it.  We're able to select another project and its plan, but when we go to select a task, the popup "Task Selector" window is empty.  It doesn't show any tasks.  

Here is the URL address of that popup.  https://edmap.teamdynamix.com/TDNext/Apps/Projects/Tasks/TaskLookup.aspx?TID=235214&Item=1530010&Back=false&Filter=All&ShowEmpty=0

We've tried clicking on the "All Tasks" radio selector but it won't let us select/activate it.  So, what's the trick to getting another project plan's tasks to appear in this popup?

Tags plan external-predecessor external-dependency
Asked by Jon Freed on Sun 2/1/15 12:39 PM
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Drake Sigler Tue 2/17/15 3:26 PM

Hi Jon,

That is certainly strange. We will look into this and fix this if this is the case.

Thank you for reporting this!

Sincerely,

Drake
TeamDynamix Support

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Jon Freed Tue 2/17/15 3:21 PM

FYI -  we determined that external dependency/predecessor popup will only display tasks that have a resource assigned to them.  I'm not sure that's really a necessary and/or good restriction, but in any case that's the current functionality as far as we can tell.

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