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Sat, 2005-04-16 08:24
Jaroslava Sedrlova
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Hi. When I want to open file it says: "activity limit exceeded". How can I solve this problem? Thank you
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Wed, 2005-04-27 03:15
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Frank Borcherdt
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Clarification on some points below:-

Jaroslava Sedrlova wrote:-My friend sent me project in pdf. There is no way to open a pdf as a workable schedule….you will need to get a PRX file…ask for a compressed backup or re-enter the data.

Alexandre Faulx-Briole and Sukumaran Subaramaniyan made good suggestions on breaking up the schedule however be careful.

With Alexandre’s method you will need to review the downstream constraints each time you reschedule one of the sections of the schedule.

With Sukumaran’s method you should break it so the relationships all flow one way ie from project 1 to project 2 then onto project 3 as you can then schedule the project in sequence once and the correct dates will be calculated. The moment you go back to an earlier project you would need to reschedule that project in the correct sequence to get valid dates on all activities.

Hope this helps.
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Thu, 2005-04-21 22:23
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Sukumaran Subaram...
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Ask your friend forward to you the back up PRX file. You do not need to redo the schedule, just restore and work on it.

Check whether the message is still popping out. If yes, you split the schedule to a smaller workpackages and create a project group template.

Using project group template copy the smaller workpackages as a subproject and interlink the related activities. With project group you can manage all the workpackages simultaneously and efficiently. This might help you to solve the problem.

For more info go to help and read through the Project Groups.

Regards.
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Wed, 2005-04-20 13:23
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kamran hazini
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Another thing is that P3 has limitation for showing activities more than 32000 and it recommends applying filters to select group of activities. Please make sure this is not your case.
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Wed, 2005-04-20 14:03
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Jaroslava Sedrlova
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Hi.
I don’t think that it’s my case. The project has less than 200 activities. My friend sent me project in pdf. I can see the result but I can’t see information what I need for my bachelor
work.
If anybody can help me I will be very happy.
Have a nice day.
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Tue, 2005-04-19 07:39
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Jaroslava Sedrlova
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Hi.
Can anybody do it for me, please? Make smaller workpackages?
Will information about precedessor be the same? Actually I need only this information from the file.
Thank you.

My number is 9791.
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Mon, 2005-04-18 08:34
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Jaroslava Sedrlova
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Hi.
You were right. I need license. I need just open one file. Is there any other chance how I can do it without license?
Anyway. Thank you.
Jarka
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Mon, 2005-04-18 04:47
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Sukumaran Subaram...
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I’m using the license copy. My project activities have exceeded 23,000. Hence with the license programme I’m having the same problem as Jaroslava.

May be it is an installation problem. If you got the CD try to re-install with full installation.

Regards.
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Mon, 2005-04-18 04:40
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Dayanidhi Dhandapany
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Hi Jaroslava, It should be demo version which you are using, hence you have to buy a P3 with license, then you can work well. Cheers!!! Daya
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Mon, 2005-04-18 03:10
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Andrew Podolny
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Hi there.
Probably it’s mere evaluation version of P3.
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