Inaccurate Total Float Calcs

Submitted by Beth Spivey on
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Submitted by Alexandre Faul… on Fri, 2008-10-03 17:33
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Beth,

the P3 "mpx-to-P3" engine does not fully understand the data that MS Project has sent to its mpx file

almost every time you will import into P3 a MPP file you will have such errors

Paul Harris recommends to export the MSP file to an Excel worksheet or a dBase file then to import this file into P3.

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Submitted by Beth Spivey on Thu, 2008-10-02 13:14
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No constraints..already checked that. Since it is picking up the project overview will finish date, I am with Dieter that is some issue between MPP and P3. New projects I entered myself I have no issues only the ones I imported from Project. Thanks for the help. Beth

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Submitted by Sajid Balma on Thu, 2008-10-02 12:50
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The most probable answer of odd floats in the programme is CONSTRAINTS. Check if you have hard constraints assigned to those activities.

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Submitted by Beth Spivey on Thu, 2008-10-02 09:57
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Dieter,



Thanks for your reply. I do not have access to P6. I have noticed that my new projects are fine so it must something I cannot affect. Thanks again.



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Submitted by Dieter Wambach on Thu, 2008-10-02 04:31
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Beth

Some time ago we had a similar situation and couldn’t solve it the direct way. But when we imported MSP into P6, then exported into P3 it was ok. Honestly, I don’t know why.

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Submitted by Anoon Iimos on Thu, 2008-10-02 03:17
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please go to other threads (i don’t know the link), "favorite feature in P3e/P6"