P6 - Delete all commas

Hi Shawn

Welcome to planning pllanet.

I have just taken 15 minutes to delete your multiple entries and moving your thread to the correct location.

It will help me as moderator if - in future - you only hit the save button once and try to put your new content in the correct forum.

Other than that we look worward to your continuing input.

Best regards

Mike Testro

Hi,

Please help me regarding primavera p6 installation..

i have installed p6 stand alone in my desktop, when i opened p6 (username: admin pass : admin) the following message is coming..

Then i did ok...i got message like this..

Shawn: Afraid I don't know of any way to delete part of an activity name using a global change

Kurthanagan: Please don't hijack someone else's thread with your own question -please post a new topic instead.

To answer your question: If you have purchased a valid liscence for Primavera, then contact their tech support who will be able to help you. If you haven't purchased a valid liscence, please don't ask us for help in breaching copyright law.

Can a serarch and replace do the trick? Something like, search for commas and replace with empty value.

http://www.drmcnatty.com/publications/enewsletter/TechTip_Replace_Function.pdf

Thank you Rafeal and Gary for your comments, when attempting to export to Excel using ASCII text, the comma serves as the field delimiter forcing the remaining text behind the comma into the subsequent cell. In this case, the spreadsheet needs to be cleaned up before it can be uploaded into another program. Considering this issue, replacing the commas with a space would just lead to more headaches. 

Furthermore, the "replace all" function only allows me to find-and-replace in each field, notionally 8,000 activities  O_o. 

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks guys.

SB

Shawn,

I never suggested replacing a comma with a space but with an empty space that will have the effect of a delete.

Take a look at the following video that illustrates the idea using other software. For a better view consider expanding the video to full screen. If you look at the replace by box you will see I added some spaces and then deleted all spaces as to keep the box empty.

http://youtu.be/OIGpKjD6J-E

Another option can be to change the delimiter character to a character you never use like say ñ [ALT 164] or a slash /.

Another option can be to use a text file to transfer the CSV file instead of Excel, in this way Excel will not interpret blanks spaces as a delimiter.

The following video might be of help with Excel.

http://youtu.be/y3PpUdeOVbA

To me the last resort is a connection to a database, never had this need.

This is as far as I can go as my software is different and although it can import/export to many formats I rarely use import/export functions to transfer data but what the developer calls "reference books" is easier and more power full than using a spreadsheet. I recognize there is also a possibility the interaction with Excel might require different settings.

For other ways take a look at the following.

http://www.eh.com.au/Technical%20Papers/A%20STEP-BY-STEP%20GUIDE%20TO%20SDK.pdf

Good luck my friend, I hope my two cents can be of some help.

Best regards,

Rafael

Awesome, thanks Rafael.

One of these options are sure to get me where I need to be, thanks again.