How Are You Supposed To Submit Updaes?
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Ronald WinterMember for 23 years 9 months
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I have a simple question for you Contractors using P3e and P3e/c to report progress on the construction field to the Owner. How are you managing your files?
In P3, before you make an update, you copy the existing schedule and give the new schedule a unique name (normally incremented by one.) You then input the status for the current update and change the data date. You then
made a backup of the new schedule and submitted it to the Owner (or Owners Rep.) The Owner restored the schedule with the new name and reviewed this new schedule, comparing it against last updates schedule already on his or her computer.
In P3e, I cant find a Schedule Copy command and there is no Backup/Restore. There is Import/Export but that is not the same thing. Is the Owner going to import an entire schedule, overriding the previous one? How will he or she know past status, through Baselines? How will the Owner know that the Baselines are unaltered once the entire new update has been imported? I am not saying that this cannot be done. I am saying that I am confused and the manuals offer no suggestions.
This is a real simple question. I suggest that before you start up your next construction project in P3e/c, that you have a good, simple answer.
In P3, before you make an update, you copy the existing schedule and give the new schedule a unique name (normally incremented by one.) You then input the status for the current update and change the data date. You then
made a backup of the new schedule and submitted it to the Owner (or Owners Rep.) The Owner restored the schedule with the new name and reviewed this new schedule, comparing it against last updates schedule already on his or her computer.
In P3e, I cant find a Schedule Copy command and there is no Backup/Restore. There is Import/Export but that is not the same thing. Is the Owner going to import an entire schedule, overriding the previous one? How will he or she know past status, through Baselines? How will the Owner know that the Baselines are unaltered once the entire new update has been imported? I am not saying that this cannot be done. I am saying that I am confused and the manuals offer no suggestions.
This is a real simple question. I suggest that before you start up your next construction project in P3e/c, that you have a good, simple answer.
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Oldest first- 0Khalid Abdelaal ·Dear Ronald as I understand you have 3 problems with P3e can be summarized as follow
1- you cant make copy of the project.
Answer: from menu click Enterprice then choose project,and you will find windwos contain all project
choose the project you want to copy and click by right mouse and click copy then Past
so the copy of the project is more easy in P3e
2- You think Importing project will override the existing project.
Answer:When you Import project you have many choices for the Importing project you can update the existing project or make a new project,
you can find this option when you import project in the project wizard you will find this window "Import Project Option" click Import action and choose Creat new project
3- You cant use the previous update as Baseline
Answer: If you copy the project and update it and export to client and the client importe it with option creat new project he can open the new update and assign the old update as baseline
try this and if you find any problem contact me in my email
kh_abdelaal@hotmail.com
Best Regards
Khalid Abdelaal
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