P6 16.2 Import Problem

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8 years

Hi All, 

Please help me with the same problem..

 I can't import my updated activities from excel to primavera 16.2 .. 

 Please provide with simple  steps to overcome it..

 

Thanks and best regards

Member for

11 years 4 months

THIS IS VERSION 16.2 PROBLEM!

Same as your case, I have been doing alot of shorcuts with excel expor=>import with versions 6.2 and 7, all was fine starting with updating to resource loading and relationships. Now, this feature simply does not work on 16.2 although I consider myself very familiar with excel import in earlier versions of P6.

I noticed that the exported excel file is in Version 2010 instead of 2003 with P6 V7. I thought that Oracle wanted to keep pace with Ms Office but instead, they messed it up, giving us a very hard time. Taking weeks to do what took an hour before.

I hope someone with better IT background will take us through this issue.

Member for

11 years 4 months

THIS IS VERSION 16.2 PROBLEM!

Same as your case, I have been doing alot of shorcuts with excel expor=>import with versions 6.2 and 7, all was fine starting with updating to resource loading and relationships. Now, this feature simply does not work on 16.2 although I consider myself very familiar with excel import in earlier versions of P6.

I noticed that the exported excel file is in Version 2010 instead of 2003 with P6 V7. I thought that Oracle wanted to keep pace with Ms Office but instead, they messed it up, giving us a very hard time. Taking weeks to do what took an hour before.

I hope someone with better IT background will take us through this issue.

Member for

10 years 5 months

It didnt worked. I have been using ASAP for a long time. While I was using p6 15.1 I had no problem to import

 

I couldnt anything from excel since we have installed P6 16.2.

 

Note that My exported excel spreedsheet's cells doesnt include Apostrophe in front.

Member for

16 years 3 months

lets say your dates are in column L to add the apostrophe just insert another column let's call that K and put the apostrophe in column K and copy it to the bottom. Now in column M use this excel function =K&L. Now copy column M and go to column L and select paste special and select value. Now delete columns K and M and import the excel file.

I do this all of the time. 

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10 years 5 months

 
 
 
 
It didnt work Zoltan.
 
To add time into the dates I have to convert my dates format to text but the exported cells doesnt contain apostrophe.
 
I had been using 15.1 version before 16.2 and I havent had any problem regarding this issue.

Member for

16 years 3 months

just EXPORT a few activities that have actual dates. Then use this as a template to import your actual dates. You must include the times also.