Merging projects

Planning, Scheduling & Programming Discussion
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Manfredo Justiniano 👤 Member for 18 years 7 months
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Hi Dieter:



Ahmet Cetin, a member from www.primaveratools.com forum, give the tips to solve the problem and it’s to CUT & paste from WBS, and it will work excellent by updating all the links.



Concerning why I have to do it? it is a contract requirement that each X period I have to give a syncronize xer file "EP + CC", to the client.



Thanks for your advice.



Manfredo.

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Dieter Wambach 👤 Member for 19 years 4 months
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Hi Manfredo

it’s by design. I don’t know a way to remove the links while copying/moving in the WBS-view.



As for the monthly report the customer wouldn’t realize how many Primavera-projects you use. I never had a partner who refused this way of planning/scheduling. We do it for a better data exchange with e.g. engineering companies. In general they are not interested in the construction part of a project.



Regards

Dieter

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Manfredo Justiniano 👤 Member for 18 years 7 months
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Dietrick:



Thanks for your answer.



Definitely the best way to do this, it is by the WBS option (copy and paste), but my problem is as follow, suppose the following links:



Link 1: File A – Activity 1 successor File B – Activity 2

Link 2: File B – Activity 3 predecessor File A – Activity 1



After merging, with copy and paste, Link 1 still remains.



And why I am merging the two projects? It is a Client requirement for the monthly report.



Thanks for your cooperation.



Manfredo.

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Dieter Wambach 👤 Member for 19 years 4 months
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Hi Manfredo

In the view WBS it is very easy to merge - as you did already I assume. Remaining links show that still some activities are in the old project. Maybe the most efficient way: Open view "Activities" --> Group by whatever, but not project or WBS --> add column WBS --> modify For the first activity to be moved --> fill down.

Be careful, dangerous command!

But why do you want to merge? If you’ll open both projects the same time, P5 will regard them as one graph - one project. Both better have the same data date. But you have the freedom to open just one part.

Regards

Dieter

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