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P6 Calendar Import Settings

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John Reeves
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If you do not choose New for the Calendar on a project update import, could the other setting change the calendars and thus dates on previous updates and the baseline?  when do you choose which settings for Calendars.  But if I choose new everytime I am going to have a whole bunch of calendars.  Sidenote, the default should be project cal. not global, this is such a common error from contractors.

Santosh Bhat
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John,

You are correct that it will overwrite existing global calendars and therefore any other projects (+ any projects that have been made into baselines) will also use the updated calendar. Note that the dates will only be re-calculated when you actually open and F9 those projects (or extract the baseline then open, F9 those).

It would be good if there was a way to inspect calendars to then understand what has changed within P6, but alas, another thing where Oracle completely failed to understand how their own product is used. I use an external tool - XER Toolkit to inspect calendars within an XER, or of course just ask the submiiting party if their calendars have changed!

You can hack the XER file using Notepad to convert the Global calendars to project calendars, but this will not work if you have resources using their own calendars, or inheriting non-work days from a global calendar to a project calendar.