Schedule Filters with WBS or codes Not Transferring

Diane,

WBS is project specfic in P6, so a filter that selects by WBS cannot transfer from one project to another.  Not sure what "FOW" stands for, but if it is a project specific code it will behave in the same was as WBS.

David is correct EVERY project has the project id as the first part of the wbs so it is impossible to copy this becasue you can not have duplicated project ids that is what make a project unique. 

FOW stands for feature of work. You can make it a global code then use it. 

double post

Your short answer: Use "WBS path" as the parameter instead of "WBS" it should work with no problem

The other method is using "WBS name" as parameter but you need to be carefull for the duplicate names and also you need to include every sub category.

I would never bother with the Global activity codes or user defined fields if I can handle my problem without them.

Probably that's enough for you but if you want to know more: The reason that "WBS" parameter doesn't work in diffrent schedules is that when you use WBS as the parameter P6 translates your filter to something like this eventually : every activity with WBS_id=XXXX (prime key) which is refrenced from WBS table in the database(PROJWBS table in XER file). This is the reason that you can't get rid of project id in the WBS Value. One interesting fact is that in the P6 databse records Project ID and Also Project description is the WBS table and not in the project table! When you copy the projects, create update, import, export etc P6 creates and amend new WBS_ids to the end of WBS table as it is a new unique ID field in WBS table so WBS_IDs in no two projects even totally identical can be the same. By using "WBS path" or "WBS name" you are avoiding this problem.  

This is a sample filter by WBS parameter:

(table_name|TASK|source_field|wbs_id|op|under|arg1|2210314|arg2|)

(2210414 is the WBS_ID unique id in WBS database which returns "projid.LH.10" as the wbs full address and it is not repetative in nature

This is when you use WBS path as parameter:

(table_name|TASK|source_field|wbs_path|op|=|arg1|LH.10|arg2|)

which does not include the project. 

Hope it is not too confusing!