Build a WBS in P6 similar to activity codes??

Yasser,

Look for an easier way to do this.

Even a low-end product such as Primavera SureTrak does the conversion at the click of the mouse. SureTrak allows you to do so using a supplied script, OUT2WBS.SBL: “Converts your project’s outline codes to WBS codes”. Unfortunately SureTrak being a low end product only allows you to keep a single WBS definition per job.

Spider Project lets you do that at the click of the mouse at the WBS dialog box, of course being a higher end product it allows you to save multiple WBS definitions, as many as you wish as the field for WBS names is open as to the amount of characters it can contain. To me 3 WBS definitions are enough but if you are a WBS freak using more than 20 definitions is going to make your drop down lists too long, impractical although in theory unlimited.



You should be able to do that in P6; just you have not been lucky as to get an appropriate match on the help search. Remember even Primavera SureTrak can do it.

Conversion to WBS codes from Activity Codes is possible; conversion in the other direction is not always possible, because WBS has a more open structure you cannot be assured of a one to one perfect match.

Best regards,
Rafael

Thanks Rafael. Unfortunately I don’t have either Sure track or Spider Project. But it is important to me to make the conversion in P6 instead of building the WBS structure one by one.

The other thing, I need to allocate the activities previously assigned to Activity codes to their respective WBS. I doubt this can be done automatically.

Regards,

Yasser

Yasser,

I supposed you can play with the "group and sort"; you can combine wbs and codes, add / delete, indent etc.

Hi Yasser,

You cannot create & define WBS using the "Parser & Builder.xls" you can only modify individual .xer file.

Try this http://knowledgebase.primavera.com/attachment/PATTLNK_1172008_031-WBS.xls

1. You can then create & define WBS similar to Activity Codes. However, you need to have SDK installed into your machine.

2. To assign the WBS is easy therefore, try first the #1 step then proceed to the assignment by showing the WBS on the column and use the "Fill Down" feature.

Regards,

Arnold