Imported file showing constraint that does not exist

Hello Anna,

for me the best way to import a .XER-File is the following:

1. Open the the XER-File with "Primavera XER Fileparserbuilder" (You can  find the Excel-Tool in the Oracle Support Database [ID 902053.1] )
2. Analyse the content with this nice Tool in Excel
3. Save your result in a new XER-File
4. Import this new XER-File into Primavera

This is for me the easiest way to clean up XER-Files and prevent errors in Primavera.

Regards

Marcel

Hi Anna

When I had the same problem the cause was a link from some imported activities to successors/predecessors from another project.

Primavera when exporting a project replaces these relations by a date (early start or finish date of predecessors/successors) placed in the external constraint field. These external constraints do not appear in the activity form and you have to call them as collumns.... Hope it helps

BR

JMFrade

Not sure about P6 but MS project can have a global constraint on the overall project completion which could be an issue.

I do not use P6 but for what I have read at PP it occurs to me it can be [a substitute to] an external link or link to another project.

Best regards,

Rafael