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P3e is not P3

Fred ZeinnerMember for 22 years 4 months
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I have been using P3 for about 10 years and P3e for 2 years. The most important thing I found is to forget what P3 would or would not do . While P3e is similar to P3 in many areas, it’s not P3. I found the best way to really get into P3e is quit complaining about how it doesn’t do all of the things that P3 did. When I look at the positive side of P3e I realized that it is a far superior program with growing pains. I like its security, and administrative capabilities. It can do a lot more that its been credit for. One of he best thing I like about it is, it imports old MS project files. To make it work all you have to do is copy your activities to a new WBS and delete the ones imported. All resources can be merged in the P3e resources. The imported calendars can be changed globally to be more compatible with P3e

Fred Zeinner Petrochem Field Services, Inc. Houston TX

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    Bernard Ertl ·
    Hi Fred, welcome to the Planning Planet!

    We have a separate forum for discussing P3e.

    Bernard Ertl
    InterPlan Systems - eTaskMaker Project Planning Software
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    Marc Borburgh ·
    Bernard,

    The reason that Fred posted in this forum is to help people switch from P3 to P3e. A lot of people are not happy with P3e and want to stick to P3. I have to tell you that I’m one of them.

    I’ve been using P3 when it was still called Finest Hour an dI did’t leave Finest Hour after the 2.0 release of P3. Before I did that, I had to do excactly what Fred describes, treat teh new product as a totally new product and live with it, hope for the best and most important, give feed back to the makers of the program.

    P3 is still nothing like FH was back then, but now I do the same between P3 and P3e. I don’t like P3e and I love P3.

    Soon my time will come to make the switch too ;S ;-)
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    Bernard Ertl ·
    Hi Marc,

    Yes, that is fine. However, P3 users who are looking for insight into P3e should look in the P3e forum. That is where posts related to the topic should be posted.

    Should we allow posts in the P3 forum discussing migration paths to all manner of different software platforms? I think not. Let’s leave posts designed for recruitment out of the forum. Guidelines will be published soon reinforcing this (and other points).

    Bernard Ertl
    InterPlan Systems - eTaskMaker Project Planning Software

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