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How to upload a set of Activity Codes?

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Rodney Jones
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Hi All,

 

I have created some Activity Codes to be assigned for accounting purposes. The first stage was easy as there were only 8 groups and maybe 5 or 6 codes within each group.

Sample: Code Value Description

2 Tailings/BPF Area  2.1 C-12394-01-02-05-07  2.2 C-12394-01-02-05-06  2.3 C-12394-01-02-04-04  2.4 C-12394-01-02-05-07  2.5 C-12394-01-02-05-07  2.6 C-12394-01-02-06-03  2.7 C-12394-01-02-04-06 but now the request is to expand the listing and groupings to an additional level as below:
2 2Tailings/BPF Area
2.1C-12394-01-02-05-062.1Bulk Earthworks BPF area
2.1C-12394-01-02-05-062.1.1Bulk excavation of BPF pad & roads areas to subgrade - spoil to material to Water treatment plant area (Subject to remeasure against actual)
2.1C-12394-01-02-05-062.1.2Excavate and trim Drain A
2.1C-12394-01-02-05-062.1.3Excavate and trim Drain B
2.1C-12394-01-02-05-062.1.4Supply, Place, Compact and trim pavement to BPF Pad & roads
2.1C-12394-01-02-05-062.1.5Supply & Installation of culverts & head walls to Drain A & B
2.1C-12394-01-02-05-062.1.6Supply, place geofabrics & rock works to Drain A & Drain B outlets
2.1C-12394-01-02-05-062.1.7Supply and installation drain A Gabion wall
2.1C-12394-01-02-05-062.1.8Form road side safety bunds
2.1C-12394-01-02-05-062.1.9Excavate, form and pour concrete spoon drain
2.1C-12394-01-02-05-062.1.10Drainage bund at CV1097
2.1C-12394-01-02-05-062.1.11Supply and Installation of conduit services (Subject to remeasure against actual)

How can I upload the codes spreadsheet?

 

Thanks,

 

Rod

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Zoltan Palffy
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yes this can do a whole lot such as creating WBS, activity code dictionary, adding resources , printing calendars etc

Rodney Jones
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hi Zoltan, excellent!this tool answers some of my other questions as well.

 

Much appreciated.

 

Rod

Zoltan Palffy
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sdk is no longer supported I use Ranga whihc is an excel add in you can build activity code dictionaries as well was a wbs

https://prevara.tech/features-planning-tools/

Rodney Jones
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Hi Rodel,

Yes, I was thinking about SDK last night. I have created an odbc to my dB but haven't yet explored the connection any further than running some basic queries.

Xer parser has been difficult to run, I think I had to go back to excel v10 or something but I do have the codes already in Excel.

Excellent ideas, thanks mate, I'll let you know how I go. 

Rodel Marasigan
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There are two options that you can use.

1) Option 1 - Using SDK (excel) - you can import/ upload Global, EPS or Project if you have SDK setup on your machine.

2) Option 2 - Using XER Builder/ parser - You need to have a deep knowledge on P6 database to do this. You can build your Activity codes library Global, EPS or Project by creating XER with Activity Codes library

Rodney Jones
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are the pics displaying? They are showing when I select Edit but not when posted. ???

Rodney Jones
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Sorry, here are screen shots:

and

the text is the related activity name