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Problems when exporting from Primavera to MS Project

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Fri, 2008-04-04 07:26
Sunny Vu
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Whenever I receive a Primavera schedule from my vendor, the dates (finish, baseline finish) change. Please let me know if there is a way to fix it. Any advice on what is the best procedure to follow when exporting data to MS Project.
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Wed, 2008-05-14 18:08
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Sunny Vu
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Thank you everyone for your response. I think the constraints is my problem.
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Wed, 2008-05-14 14:44
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Mooney Brian
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Dieter

You are right (again)I have been trailing importing from MSP to P6 on some sample projects. When the project is just logic driven it seems to work fine (except the issue with the milestone ’duration’) but if you try to add constraints it gets messy.

Thanks again, it is appreciated, Sunny does any of this make sense/assist?

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Brian
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Wed, 2008-05-14 14:25
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Dieter Wambach
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Brian
Another reason may be the constraints: their behaviour is a little different and MSP cannot work with two in one activity.
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Dieter
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Wed, 2008-05-14 12:41
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Mooney Brian
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Deiter

Thanks for the advice, I believe the problem may be confined to version 6.0 and is fixed in 6.1.

This problem may be contributing to the problems Sunny encountered importing from P6 to MSP (date variances etc.)

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Brian
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Tue, 2008-05-13 19:45
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Dieter Wambach
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Brian
You can avoid this effect if you assign the milestones to a calendar with a longer working time than the other activities.
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Dieter
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Tue, 2008-05-13 15:05
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Mooney Brian
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I am not sure if this helps, I have had a similar problem but when in importing projects from MSP to P6. For example in MSP a finish milstone would show the same completion date as it’s predessor, in P6 the finish milestone can jump to the following day.

Instead of the finish milestone having ’no duration’ P6 assigns a small duration which appears to cause the problem.


I hope this makes sense & helps.

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Brian


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Fri, 2008-04-04 15:03
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Dieter Wambach
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Sunny
P5 and P6 shouldn’t produce a significant difference for the dates against the MSP schedule (2000 or 2003). With 2007 I have no experience. BUT Primavera has many features not included in MSP, which may lead to some differences, e.g. some of the constraints.
How to avoid difference: Switch off the automatic scheduling for MSP. Then the dates will be kept. Hope this will help. If not: Which versions of the software do you use? What are the differences?
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Dieter

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