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Oliver MellingMember for 19 years 5 months
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All, I have to provide a copy of my Primavera P5 tender programmes in MSP format. After exporting i have noticed Level of Effort tasks have become normal tasks? Is there an MSP equivilant to LofE activities?
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    Niek Zonneveld ·
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    Oliver,

    The answer is no I’m afraid.

    If you export to MSP you’ll likely to lose quite a lot more that ’just’ LOE tasks. For instance: secondary constraints, the difference between start and finish milestones, multiple dependencies between activities (SS+FF), your status date, reschedule of the remaining work, multiple resource assignments to the same activity.

    Furthermore Primavera is a lot more picky in its start and finish dates. For instance, MSP sometimes starts an activity on Friday 17:00, in P5 this will be Monday 9:00. So it is likely your schedule will be slightly different too. Especially with a schedule in progress!

    H.T.H.

    Niek.
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    Paul Harris ·
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    And don’t forget if you load MSP 2007 you will not be able to import or export any MSP files!

    Paul E Harris
    Eastwood Harris Pty Ltd, Melbourne, Australia
    Planning and Scheduling Training Manual & Book Publishers & Consulting
    www.eh.com.au
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    Oliver Melling ·
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    Then it’s a good thing my company are cheap enough to still be using 2002!
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