Old fashioned merging

Rashid Iqbal 👤 Member for 21 years 1 month

Thu, 2005-12-22 12:20 · Permalink

Bill,

Thanks for telling this......... i never knew it.

Regards

Rashid

Emma Seaton 👤 Member for 20 years 9 months

Wed, 2005-12-21 05:20 · Permalink

Thanks Bill, that worked a treat! I hadnt realised that when importing there were some options to select what action you want the import to do! I did try another method yesterday, which is probably more cumbersome and less reliable, which is to make Project 2 the baseline of Project 1 and then select Update in the Maintain Baselines screen. Then I restored Project 2 to a standalone project. It brought in most of the information, but I dont think it did the user defined fields - your suggestion solved this completely!

Cheers

Emma

Bill McMichael 👤 Member for 21 years 6 months

Tue, 2005-12-20 17:33 · Permalink

Emma,

One way to do this is throug export/import using update option.

1. Export program 1 to XER.

2. Open program 2 and import XER of program 1 that you created in step 1.

3. Choose Update Existing project as your import action in the Import Wizard and select program 2 as the project to "Import to."

This will update program 2 with program 1 changes, but not remove any additional activiites that exist in program 2.

There are additional update rules on the advanced import screen to further refine this, but the defaults should work fine for you.

I suggest making a copy of program 2 before you import just in case.

Regards,

Bill

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