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IMPORTING FROM P3E 3.5.1 TO P5

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Wed, 2008-03-26 15:51
Suresh Sankaranku...
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Hi
Have you ever faced this problem ?
I am not able to import the p3e 3.5.1 file in p5 . It says can not import files from version 3.5.1.

The long way i done is imported the file in p4 and exported again and imported in p5 .


Is ther any otherways or reasons / solutions ?

Suresh
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Thu, 2008-03-27 08:52
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Suresh Sankaranku...
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Dieter ,
Lovely solution. I tried and working perfect.
Thanks a lot...
Regards
Suresh
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Thu, 2008-03-27 08:47
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Dieter Wambach
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Hi Suresh
It must be a normal Editor: Notepad (--> see David’s post), Editor, or Wordpad. Never use a wordprocessing software (Word, Open Office, WordPro...), because this will add many control blocks, formatting and others. The XER-file would be destroyed.
Only work with a copy!
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Dieter
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Thu, 2008-03-27 08:03
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David Forrest
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XER can be opened with Notepad. This is useful for doing quick integrity check prior to importing projects from other databases.
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Thu, 2008-03-27 06:27
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Suresh Sankaranku...
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Hi Dieter
Could you pls explain me on which editor we can open the xer file. Do you mean like MS Word or something ?
Pls explain in more detail.
thnx
Suresh
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Wed, 2008-03-26 20:58
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Dieter Wambach
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Hi Suresh
Some time ago I had to import 2.1-files into P5. It worked with a small trick.
Primavera by default only allows to import from the previous version. 2 things to be done:
1. The information by which version the xer was produced is in the first line. You’ll modify 3.5 to 5.x - your version.
2. Check if a group name was modified. I don’t believe this is the case. If yes you’ll change it to the new name.
(In the bove mentioned case I had to do it.)
You can open a xer-file with any editor.
Regards
Dieter
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