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Easy way to find change in links

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Sat, 2007-08-25 04:10
Santhosh kumar Na...
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Hi Pals,

Is there any easy way to check changes in link of program (Change of link between same program 2 revisions Rev.0 & Rev.1). After approval of rev. 0 if i change some links (Activity count 5000), is there any easy way to find out the changes like export to excel? and compare i dono??!! plz advice!!
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Sun, 2008-01-20 10:47
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Johny Kesserwany
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Hi,
You have ’Primavera claim digger’ version 3.0 software. it’s around 300$ and it has same features as the one already integrated in P5 & P6 even more...

JK
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Fri, 2008-01-18 05:59
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Bea Sports
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I also agree with Rodel.
What I do is compare baseline (or any other version) with my current. Using Access I run a query that links the project versions I wish to check to find any change in comparisons such as pred., constraint type, lag, %lag, pred. calendar.... that exist in original and not in actual and vise-versa. Once this is completed the Query links Activity Code with the Description from the Activity table and I can see all the changes, if any, that have occured. (new and/or lost links).
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Wed, 2008-01-16 01:13
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Izam Zakaria
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Yes i totally agree with Rodel... from that file u can see what is predecessors....but pls take note ... they shown activity codes only. That’s mean u need to vlookup ....to get the desc. detail....
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Sat, 2007-08-25 07:09
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Rodel Marasigan
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Santhosh,

Of course there is lots of software available that can solve your problem that normally used for claims. If you are using P3 v3.1 another option is to use RA excel utilities that included your P3 CD installation disk. You can use ACTIVITY.xls or PREDSUCC.XLS

Both of this excel RA are importing relationship and you can compare your relationship by importing both revision and compare the activities predecessor and successor to check the changes.

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Rodel
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Sat, 2007-08-25 04:43
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Santhosh kumar Na...
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Hi, Me using P3, V 3.1. In fact i want to play with program which is going to submitt next revision soon!!. One of my frined told me that there is an easy tool ! to find the any changes u made in link with previous submittals , i want to know wether it is there or on have to compare with dates etc!!
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Sat, 2007-08-25 04:28
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Rodel Marasigan
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Santhosh,

If you are using P3e or P5 the easiest way is to use the claim digger. You can compare projects to projects per revision. If you want to check only the relationship change then you need to click advance and un-tick all data that you don’t need to use for comparison except for relationship. These will general the full report relationship comparison and other data that you require when comparing project to projects.

Hope this help

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Rodel
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