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Importing Xer File

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Mon, 2016-12-26 07:20
Umer Mehmood
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Dear Friends

 

When i import Xer file , the data is imported , how when i schedule it again without making any changes , the dates change

Please advise how can i avoid , as i observe that calender used in import schedule are not in my p6

Need your assistance

 

Best Regards

 

Umer 

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Wed, 2017-01-04 18:40
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Zoltan Palffy
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when you import the project during the import process at the update Import Options select modify

in the 3rd section under Data Type: Project where it says calendars change this to Do Not Import and the calendars wil not be imported.

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Mon, 2017-01-02 10:51
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Nihat Yildirim
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The import configurations are set at the "Update Project Options" step within the import wizard. You see only the Default Configuration I guess. 

Please see the details here:

http://prmyazilim.com/en/blogs/136-import-config

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Sun, 2017-01-01 02:43
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Zoltan Palffy
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first guess is that the project is using global calendars vs project calendars. The defaukt calendar that was used and YOUR default calendars are different.

Also your TIMES for your data date may be different

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Fri, 2016-12-30 21:44
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Umer Mehmood
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Thanks for your comments

 

Please could you elobrate where to select new import confugurration , it would be really helpful

While recheck i found that the previous overirde  function , and my setting were not considering it.

 

thanks

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Wed, 2016-12-28 07:54
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Nihat Yildirim
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When importing create a new import configuration and in that configuration select insert new for calendars. Make sure that calendars in the XER files are imported.

Also make sure the environment that produced that XER has a similar hours/day setting like yours.  hours/day is typically and by default 8. If you messed with that setting durations would not look right.

 

If you still see the dates are changing then probably the XER is produced before scheduling and dates are not necessarily right just after the import.

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