Copy a project file (including all its baselines)
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Jerry LanMember for 20 years 1 month
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Hi Guys!,
How about this one? Usually you make a backup before you make changes to the working project file. Now your working file/program has many baselines attached to it. P5 only allows you to backup the working file (the baselines will not be included). Lets call the working file (W) and the backup file (B).
Scenario 1: Suppose you make changes to W and you are not happy with the changes. You have to restore all baselines and append it to B
Scenario 2: Suppose you make changes to B and you are happy with the changes. Now you have to redo the exact same changes (if u can remember!) in W or restore all baselines and append it to B!
Scenario 3: Is there a way to copy a file/program together with all its baselines?
Kind regards,
-j- erry
How about this one? Usually you make a backup before you make changes to the working project file. Now your working file/program has many baselines attached to it. P5 only allows you to backup the working file (the baselines will not be included). Lets call the working file (W) and the backup file (B).
Scenario 1: Suppose you make changes to W and you are not happy with the changes. You have to restore all baselines and append it to B
Scenario 2: Suppose you make changes to B and you are happy with the changes. Now you have to redo the exact same changes (if u can remember!) in W or restore all baselines and append it to B!
Scenario 3: Is there a way to copy a file/program together with all its baselines?
Kind regards,
-j- erry
5 replies
Oldest first- 0Edderic See ·Hi Jerry,
The difference in p3 with p5 is that you can’t open a p3 current project if you did not include your baseline. In p5, it is much flexible since you can create more than one baseline depending on your project status. I believe that baseline is use to compare your current schedule and if you wish to update your target based on current schedule you can do it easily in maintain baseline.. then update. Lastly, if there is a need to revise your schedule, you don’t need to go from the start. You can edit and revise your current schedule, save a copy as your baseline. Just be careful in assigning your project baseline with primary, secondary etc.
Regards,
Ed - 0Niek Zonneveld ·Jerry,
This is a new feature in P6, as you were obviously not the only one having this problem.
Be careful if you have timesheet entries associated with your schedule because than a simple copy paste won’t work.
In that case you will probably also like the new reflections feature in P6, allowing you to make a copy of an active project and track the changes you make. After that, you can decide step by step which changes you want to incorporate in your original schedule.
H.T.H.
Niek. - 0Niek Zonneveld ·Yes, that’s possible. For each change, you can see the delta’s and you can decide to incorporate or reject that change.
It’s a heavy command (which is not strange, given the vast amount of data it needs process when your schedule is big) but it works quite well.
H.T.H.
Niek.
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