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Problems converting from p5 to MS Project

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Wed, 2008-07-02 09:31
David E
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I tried doing a search on this topic, and found some threads but nothing that really helped.

I am currently working on a project in which the client is requiring us to give them a copy of the schedule in MS Project. I am not a scheduler, but work in Project Controls and am trying to help out the schedulers. Here is the problem:

When the schedule is converted and opened in MS Project the durations are all jacked up. The dates are transferring wrong, with the finish dates being moved way out.

They have tried converting it to MPX and to XML and the XML version was even worse. When they tried to do this through excel the WBS hierarchy was not there (although it was exported from P5 and there was a field for it in excel.

Thanks for any help!

David
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Wed, 2008-07-02 09:44
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David E
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Thanks for the suggestion...we will try that if the schedulers get a free moment.

Any other suggestions in the meantime are more than welcome.

David
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Wed, 2008-07-02 09:39
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Brad Lord
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suppose to say P5 not O5 my typing is awful!!!!!!!!1
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Wed, 2008-07-02 09:38
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Brad Lord
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Hi david

this has always been a problem converting primavera to msp, what happens the lags change during conversion and sometimes the calendars go astray.

you say the durations are changing what you could do is copy the whole schedule from P5 including odur and rdur into exce;. once you have converted the 05 plan into MSP try copying the durations from the excel spreadsheet and see what happens.

hope that helps
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