Duplicate IDs

correct answer this is my post at the PMSITE.com

Activity IDs: The SDEF standard does not support activity IDs longer than ten characters, while P6 projects may contain activity IDs longer than ten characters. Activity IDs are truncated to the first ten characters when converting a P6 project to SDEF. Due to this truncation, it is possible that duplicate activity IDs will be encountered during the conversion; if so, the conversion is aborted. To ensure that conversions to SDEF are not aborted, P6 projects should not contain activity IDs longer than ten characters. If activity IDs must be longer than ten characters in P6, the first ten characters must be unique.

http://pmsite.com/forums/viewthread/860/

Hope this helps

Shahzad,



I’m told that the new release of P3e has an undo function.

A negative aspect of undo is that it uses a lot of memory (so im told again). Until now we were forced to make a back-up on regular basis an to be onnest i think it workt very fine. But undo will even be better.



Maybe Primavera has listened a little bid.





Regards



Henk

This is generic problem of P3 that during copying and pasting in the same project,you have to alloted other IDS than already placed.



Right so that this duplication of IDS needs to be rectified in new versions.



Not limited to above, previous suggestions such as retrieve the activities after deletion were not considered by P3 Developers so far in any version and same like others functions



so wait when P3 Developers think over this.

I have just found that the problem still exists in 4.1. On the Primavera knowledgebase, solution prim15837 says "If a WBS node is copied and pasted within the same project, activities are created with a duplicate Activity ID." It goes on to say that "The problem only occurs when you copy a WBS, then paste it to the same location (without moving the cursor) and if the option to auto-number new activities based on the selected activity is checked."



Hopefully this has been fixed in 5.0



Cheers

Duplicate activity IDs within a project was in fact a bug in an earlier version. I found this could happen with copy and paste, and when reporting to Primavera with the exact steps I had taken, they acknowledged it was a bug. I am now using version 4.1 and cannot duplicate IDs within a project.

Tim,



The activity ID has to be unique within your project. But when you copy the project you dont have to change your id’s.

The unique id is created as an combination of the project and the activity id. So when you open two or more projects it looks like you’ve two equal id’s in the project, but this is not possible.



Regards



Henk

First off, are you sure ?

Could try going to the Enterprise, Projects, Defaults Tab.

Change Activity Id Prefix and Activity Id Suffix values to

annotate new values.

Back to Project,Activity view. Remove all Group and Sort levels. Then do a copy/paste. Your new activities will be annotated with the values you chose earlier. The original values can then be deleted.





HTH