HELP ! Error during MPP export

Susan

I never had this message but to get a little closer to the reason:

MPP is supported only up to MSP2003 - my assumption that you use higher.
If you’ll export this project in P6 format and reimport into a different area of you EPS: What happens?

Good luck!
Dieter

Thanks for the quick response Dieter,

I use MSP 2000.

I tried what you proposed.. I exported the project in P6.1 version & re-imported the project in different EPS... Unfortunately I get the same error message after exporting to MPP.

When done, it says..’Process completed with Errors..’

And Log file shows following entry for each activity in schedule:

INFORMATION: Exporting Activity: [ASPD900] Completion of Concreting
*** ERROR ***: Exporting Activity [ASPD900] Completion of Concreting: The argument value is not valid

I am not sure where I m going wrong but the Export worked perfectly well few months back. Am I doing some mistake in the MPP export template parameters or is it something else ?

I am really struggling with this now. Any pointers will be great help.

Thanks
Sue

Susan

So the reason seem to be within your project - activity ASPD900; not the export Concentrate on this activity.

- Run Tools --> Check Project Integrity --> read log file
- Is there a resource assignment with a curve? Check the curve. If the project originally comes from P3, some of the P3-curves are not supported in P6.
- What’s the activity’s status - started, planned.
- if not started, modify planned duration --> F10 (system must write into database) --> F5 --> F9 --> Planned duration back to the old value again --> F10 --> F5 --> F9.
- Then try the export again - xer. If this works, then to mpp

Good luck!
Dieter

Hello Dieter,

Thankyou for your suggestions !

Tried the steps you suggested. The schedule is not resource loaded so the result of Integrity test was ok with following message:

’’2. Check Activity Resource Assignment for: Project mis-match between Activity Resource Assignments and Activities
>>>OK’’

I had just pasted ’activity ASPD900’ as an example. In fact this error message is against each of 2000 activities in schedule :-(

I am out of ideas now.

Susan

Hello Susan

This messages says: IT’s ok.

Check this log file for "error".

Regards

Dieter

Hello Dieter,

There are no ’Errors’in the log file.

:-(

Still doesnt work

Any special character/symbol is used for resource name and ID?
If have, change to normal character

OK I figured that the problem was with the calendars. Project default calander was not right.

However after export, I find a huge variance in dates between MSP & Primavera. (excess of 400 days for some activities)

I am aware that a exact export of dates wont be possible, but is there a easy way wherein i could perhaps im[pose the Primavera date in MSP schedule ?

Sue

Hi Sue

When I found such variances, in general there was a simple reason:

MSP allows to relate group elements (WBS), which is not accepted by P6. For each WBS P6-Import creates an activity of the type "wbs summary". After import the links are still there, but they are ignore by the scheduling algorithm. Then the start of the successor will move onto the data date.

Regards
Dieter