P6 - Copy activities across to another project
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I need to copy a few activities (keeping the exisiting relationships/resource/costs...) over to another project in P6. I have tried to open both at the same time and do the copy but it does not work as I wish to. Also have created a "reflection" and tried to merge into the other one but I think it needs Admin access because the command is not active. There should be an easier way...?Help
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Oldest first- 0Dieter Wambach ·Hi
For me this is one of Primavera’s secrets, why sometimes it does work to copy across projects and mostly not - the same behaviour since ver. 2.1. But there is a secure workaround: create a wbs "tocopy" --> open activities view --> group your activities by "wbs" --> move those activities into that new element --> open wbs-view --> move this element into the other project --> now all activities are within the other project --> open activities view --> move activities to where you want to have them --> open wbs-view --> delete "tocopy". Sounds difficult but is rather easy to perform - if you have the appropriate rights.
Good luck!
Dieter - 0Rodel Marasigan ·Mohsen,
When copying activities from project to another project you will experience, that it will not work because of this reasons. The way it was organize (group & sort) in layout. If organize by WBS that should not be a problem but organize by global activity code it will not work because you may selecting same project.
The best way to copy activities is to use WBS window and copy across from one project to another project which is clearly not to same project itself.
Is that making sense?
Abed,
You cannot close unwanted Projects one by one, it’s either close all project or open a project or sets of project when closing projects that already open because project are not on each window like excel or word or other software. It’s either open by EPS, Project or set of Projects which is like filtering the database on the selection you made.
- 0Mike Loughery ·
An easy way to do this
An easy way to do this is;
- Open both projects in activities window.
- Copy & Paste the Activities in the project you want to move them from. [under a blank grouping makes this easier].
- Display the WBS Column.
- Select the WBS in the colum that you want to move the copies to.
- Scroll Up/Down to the Copied activties.
- Use Ctrl & select each activity
- Right click & Fill down
- Success!
- 0Alaa Arabi ·
Hi,I have created around 12
Hi,
I have created around 12 critical paths manually for different milestones in a certain project and coded those critical path activities. Now that project have been updated. I have to repeat the exact same exercise for that updated project.
I dont want to repeat doing all 12 critical paths manually again.
Is there a way to import those critiacal path coded activities into the new updated project.
Note: both projects which are basically same but one is updated, sit in the same EPS.
Thanks
Alaa
- 0Zoltan Palffy ·
copy the projectclose the
copy the project
close the project
open the project that you just copied
in that project delete what you DO NOT NEED
export this schedule with a few activities as an xer file.
open the project that you want to add these to and select file import
during the import project options process change create a new project to Add Into Existing Project
then at the next screen Update Project Options select Modify and tell it what and how you want to bring in your information
thats it
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