importing an XER file with EPS activity codes
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Open the XER file in a text editor like Notepad. Do a find and replace that swaps "AS_EPS" to become "AS_Global" and then all the EPS codes and assignments to activities will be imported into the destination database as a Global Activity Code.
Takes a few seconds to do and brings across all the data - as long as you're allowed to do such imports!
EPS Level Activity codes CAN be imported from another database, but needs a bit of work up front.
The only Requirement is that an EPS Activity Code Type with Exactly the same name must already exist in the structure above the Project being imported into.
In order to Import a list of EPS Code values, you would first need to check that the EPS Activity Code Name already exists in the Target Database prior to importing.
If this EPS Activity Code Type exists, then all the code values & assignments will import.
EPS level Activity codes ONLY import into a database if the database has EXACTLY the same EPS structure as the database the project(s) were exported from.
Only Activity codes that are assigned to the activities that are being exported will be in the XER file. If you have defined them in your Global Code Dictionary, but not used them yet, they will not get exported.
Global Activity Codes are not getting exported in the xer file. I tried opening the exported xer files with Wordpad & also in another PC but the global activity codes are not present in both cases.
hi all,
I've got the same problem here.
I also tried using global activity codes, but they did not come along as I thought they would.
I cannot use project activity codes since I need these codes to be available for more than one project...
are you sure there isn't a way ?
I tried recreating the same EPS structure, and it worked fine on one machine and not on the other...
I'm lost !
vito,
EPS activity codes are there even if you check your xer with any text application such as wordpad or import it back to your machine with same EPS structure. The reason it was not imported to other machine because EPS structure will not be the same as in your machine therefore it will be ignore. The correct way of exporting activity codes is either Project activity codes or global activity code.
(You can convert to global your current activity code before exporting to xer so other machine can read it.)