importing Microsoft Project file into P3

Submitted by Cristina Blades on
Primavera Project Planner - P3

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Submitted by Dieter Wambach on Wed, 2008-05-07 06:07
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Christina

When I used mpx-format, I found that some data was lost and the dates not the same after scheduling.

When I imported mpp into P5/P6 and then exported as P3-format everything was ok in P3.

Regards

Dieter

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Submitted by John Frantzen on Wed, 2008-05-07 05:23
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Here’s one easy approach... if you have a copy of Project 98 available...



Open with MSP20XX and "save as" a Project98 format

Open with Project98 and save to MPX

Open the MPX with SureTrak

Save as SureTrak native or Concentric P3

Open with P3 (only if you saved as Concentric P3 -- duh)



But... here’s the catch... you will need to completetly "outdent" the entire Microsoft Project data so there are no summary tasks and you will need to set-up text fields in MSP that will transfer over to ST/P3 activity codes. This will enable you to mimic the outlining in MSP... but of course ST/P3 will use this info for activity codes/grouping in your layout. Hopefully you do not have more than 6 levels of summary/outline nesting in MSP because there are only 64 characters available in ST/P3 activity code dictionary and the MPX will parse the MSP text fields into 6 codes of 10 characters each (as I recall). Anyway, if you leave the summary tasks in-place, they will transfer as "topic" activities and it will be a royal PITA to deal with.



I use this method all the time for small schedules and it is a great time saver.



JF

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Submitted by Cristina Blades on Sat, 2008-04-26 03:55
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Thanks very much to both of you. I will have a look into it. (I tried exporting into Excel first and took it from there, lot of manipulation to be done, though...). I will try all options as I can foresee a lot of these conversions / imports coming my way in the near future.



Thanks again,

Cristina

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Submitted by James Barnes on Fri, 2008-04-25 09:12
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EC Harris has a guide somewhere on his site www.eh.com.au



Basically it doesn’t work very well, tbh



I have been through the same thing with my production guys writing their shutdown plans in MSP when the execution plan is in P3. The best way I found was to export the MSP plan to excel then construct .DBF import files semi-manually. This was a pain but ensured that I was in control of the data and that no funny conversions would happen.