# Multi-module project with relative paths to sub projects

**URL:** <https://discuss.gradle.org/t/multi-module-project-with-relative-paths-to-sub-projects/4581>\
**Category:** Old Forum Archive\
**Created:** [November 27, 2012, 8:37pm UTC](https://discuss.gradle.org/t/multi-module-project-with-relative-paths-to-sub-projects/4581 "2012-11-27T20:37:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Detelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3e96dc/32.png) [@Detelin](https://discuss.gradle.org/u/Detelin)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2012, 9:08pm UTC](https://discuss.gradle.org/t/multi-module-project-with-relative-paths-to-sub-projects/4581/2 "2012-11-27T21:08:00Z")

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The [Settings.include](http://gradle.org/docs/current/javadoc/org/gradle/api/initialization/Settings.html#include%28java.lang.String%5B%5D%29) method accepts a Gradle project path - this is different than a filesystem path - it uses the ‘’:’’ character as a path separator. With this method you are building the Gradle project hierarchy, while if the actual filesystem hierarchy is different than that, then you must use [ProjectDescriptor.projectDir](http://gradle.org/docs/current/javadoc/org/gradle/api/initialization/ProjectDescriptor.html#setProjectDir%28java.io.File%29) to set the actual directory for each project:

```gradle
include ':A'
project(':A').projectDir = new File('../A')
include ':B'
project(':B').projectDir = new File('../B')

```

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