Duplicating a WBS in P6

Hi Farzin,

Before copying the WBS go to --> Enterprise --> Project, highlight the current open project --> Project Details --> Defaults tab, Auto-numbering Defaults, in Activity ID Prefix change the value and untick the check box next to "Increment ID based on selected activity".

When done, go to Project --> WBS and copy the WBS including activities.

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Arnold

Thanks Arnold,
This changes both prefix, and number. what if I’d like to keep the number and only change the prefix?
PS: Because ID numbers do not obey any sort of steady increment I need to keep them in their order.

Hi Farzin,

There is a workaround, try this:

Say for example: You want to copy AB1000, AB1010, AB1020...& etc...Then you want to become BA1000, BA1010, BA1020...& etc...

First, do the global change, where:

user_text1 = SubString(Activity ID,3,20)

Then the result is user_text1:
1000, 1010, 1020....& etc...

When done, perform the steps in Post #2.

After that, filter all the newly copied activities and run a global change again, but this time with combination parameters, Where:

Activity ID = LeftString(Activity ID,2) & user_text1

Let us know if you have done this.

Regards,

Arnold

Thanks Arnold,
That was a great help.

Cheers

Interesting that in Spider Project this function is standard.
We recomend this approach to activity coding of similar fragnets.
Best Regards,
Vladimir

Hi Farzin,

In Primavera P6 V.7, new version that Oracle released 2 days ago, there is a new function to renumber the activities or change prefixes with variety of options. You may as well want to give it a try...

Cheers.

Thanks Sean, I’d whenever get a chance. I’m still stuck to P6.2.