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Export to MSP

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Wed, 2007-10-10 08:56
Oliver Melling
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All, I have to provide a copy of my Primavera P5 tender programmes in MSP format. After exporting i have noticed Level of Effort tasks have become normal tasks? Is there an MSP equivilant to LofE activities?
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Fri, 2007-10-12 03:36
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Oliver Melling
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Then it’s a good thing my company are cheap enough to still be using 2002!
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Thu, 2007-10-11 18:42
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Paul Harris
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And don’t forget if you load MSP 2007 you will not be able to import or export any MSP files!

Paul E Harris
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Wed, 2007-10-10 10:59
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Niek Zonneveld
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Oliver,

The answer is no I’m afraid.

If you export to MSP you’ll likely to lose quite a lot more that ’just’ LOE tasks. For instance: secondary constraints, the difference between start and finish milestones, multiple dependencies between activities (SS+FF), your status date, reschedule of the remaining work, multiple resource assignments to the same activity.

Furthermore Primavera is a lot more picky in its start and finish dates. For instance, MSP sometimes starts an activity on Friday 17:00, in P5 this will be Monday 9:00. So it is likely your schedule will be slightly different too. Especially with a schedule in progress!

H.T.H.

Niek.
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