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Anna JMember for 14 years 2 months
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Hello,

I think I may have the answer, but I will still ask the question.  My co-worker has imported a file (.xer) into his master project.  There is one activity showing that it has a constraint, but has none.  Is this perhaps a bug in the program?  Even on the schedule log report that particular activity comes up as having a constraint.  I had him send me the file and I ran the log report and it did not show as a constraint, but in the shedule itself again showed as a constraint.  Is this possible that he imported a different ver of p6 that was not compatible.  This is a total mystery, can you help me solve this issue?  Have to know. 

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    Rafael Davila ·
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    I do not use P6 but for what

    I do not use P6 but for what I have read at PP it occurs to me it can be [a substitute to] an external link or link to another project.

    Best regards,

    Rafael

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    Danya Pearce ·
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    Not sure about P6 but MS

    Not sure about P6 but MS project can have a global constraint on the overall project completion which could be an issue.

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    Jose Frade ·
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    Hi Anna When I had the same

    Hi Anna

    When I had the same problem the cause was a link from some imported activities to successors/predecessors from another project.

     

    Primavera when exporting a project replaces these relations by a date (early start or finish date of predecessors/successors) placed in the external constraint field. These external constraints do not appear in the activity form and you have to call them as collumns.... Hope it helps

     

    BR

     

    JMFrade

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    Marcel Danes ·
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    Hello Anna, for me the best

    Hello Anna,

    for me the best way to import a .XER-File is the following:

    1. Open the the XER-File with "Primavera XER Fileparserbuilder" (You can  find the Excel-Tool in the Oracle Support Database [ID 902053.1] )
    2. Analyse the content with this nice Tool in Excel
    3. Save your result in a new XER-File
    4. Import this new XER-File into Primavera

    This is for me the easiest way to clean up XER-Files and prevent errors in Primavera.

     

    Regards

     

    Marcel

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