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Primavera Notebook for activities as a record of delays

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Sun, 2006-10-29 08:28
Jan Hlavacek
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Dear forum members, I am using on our project the Notebook in order to record reasons for delays for particular activities. It works fine, only problem is that I cannot export the notebooks nor I cannot create nice reports - for instance only for activities which have a non-blank notebook - I cannot filter them out.
My idea which doesn’t seem to be very practical would be to introduce an extra custom activity code which would have to be filled for activities which do have a notebook. This activity code would than be used for filtering.
Any suggestions perhaps, should I use the Issues instead? Thank you, Jan.
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Wed, 2006-11-08 20:52
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Chris Radecki
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SDK, API or possibly XER?

P3 have a tool called xerFileParser&Builder.xls that may be of use.
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Tue, 2006-11-07 19:02
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Alex Wong
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Jan

Have you try SDK yet??

Cheers

Alex
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Tue, 2006-11-07 00:08
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Jan Hlavacek
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Yes, that is an option, however, it still doesn’t allow us to filter out items which do not contain any notebook record.

Another way how to document delays or comments to particullar activities would be using ’issues’. Or how do you guys document your comments for delays?
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Sat, 2006-11-04 17:53
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Marcio Sampaio
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U can assign Notebooks in Gantt Chart as a bar label.

Regards.
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Wed, 2006-11-01 00:09
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Alex Wong
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Jan

With SDK you can directly filter these notebook items

Alex
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Wed, 2006-11-01 00:02
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Jan Hlavacek
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Alex,

I know the report builder. However, my problem is not being able to filter only for activities which do contain any notebook record. The notebook is not an option for filtering nor for displaying it in a column. All I was able to do by the report builder was to show all activities with their notebook records, but I was not able to filter out activities which in fact do not contain any notebook record. The result is a long report with very little to say :-)

Thank you, Jan
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Tue, 2006-10-31 19:51
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Alex Wong
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Jan

I can see your problem of not able to filter notebook items.

In order to produce a useful report that contain all the notebook you can utilise the report builder (within P3e) Or using SDK to produce an custom reports.

Let me know if you need futher help

Alex

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