IMPORTING FROM P3E 3.5.1 TO P5

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Dieter Wambach 👤 Member for 19 years 5 months

Hi Suresh

It must be a normal Editor: Notepad (--> see David’s post), Editor, or Wordpad. Never use a wordprocessing software (Word, Open Office, WordPro...), because this will add many control blocks, formatting and others. The XER-file would be destroyed.

Only work with a copy!

Regards

Dieter

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David Forrest 👤 Member for 24 years 6 months

XER can be opened with Notepad. This is useful for doing quick integrity check prior to importing projects from other databases.

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Suresh Sankarankutty PMP 👤 Member for 19 years 10 months

Hi Dieter

Could you pls explain me on which editor we can open the xer file. Do you mean like MS Word or something ?

Pls explain in more detail.

thnx

Suresh

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Dieter Wambach 👤 Member for 19 years 5 months

Hi Suresh

Some time ago I had to import 2.1-files into P5. It worked with a small trick.

Primavera by default only allows to import from the previous version. 2 things to be done:

1. The information by which version the xer was produced is in the first line. You’ll modify 3.5 to 5.x - your version.

2. Check if a group name was modified. I don’t believe this is the case. If yes you’ll change it to the new name.

(In the bove mentioned case I had to do it.)

You can open a xer-file with any editor.

Regards

Dieter

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