project list is showing blank when importing an excel file to existing project using import in p6

do you find any solution?

i´ve tried your proposed solution, but p6 does not recognize the decimals. p6 only import all as a whole number

no you should be able to edit budgeted or actual costs even if the activity is completed. are you importing costs at the assignments level or at the activity level? resource assignment costs (if they exist) tally to the activity level cost.

here’s a suggestion to fix the issue:
cause
this is an issue with excel where cells are not formatted as text.
the cells in the file are formatted as general, not text.

solution
1) add a leading apostrophe (‘) in the cell at the beginning of the number.
adding the apostrophe (‘) changes the format to text.

2) change the excel format to text using the drop down from the right-click format menu.
changing the excel cell format to text using drop down is not actually changing the cell format to text.
it only changes the style of the excel cell.
it is also necessary to edit the cell (by double clicking the cell) after selecting the format from drop down to actually change the format.
if changing the format using the drop down then we don’t have to add an apostrophe separately.
but as it is an issue with excel, we have to double click the excel cell after we have changed the cell format to text via the drop down.

note: the above 2 solutions can be tedious if there are hundreds of rows and many columns to be updated.
adding an apostrophe or having to double click in each such cell could require much additional effort.

3) there is another quick formatting option as well for bulk changing of cells.
you can select the entire column –> go to data tab, in data tools select text to columns –> click next with delimited selected –> uncheck all delimiter check boxes and click next –> select text in the column data format section and click finish.
this should format the entire column as text.

hi um
the issue with the apostrophe i believe has been fixed in recent versions, so i do not believe it is necessary anymore.
if you were able to import successfully then you’re ahead!

thanks

could you help me with this:

i need to import the budgeted units; in my excel file, i use two decimals separated by a comma, for example, i have 155,57 hours.

but when i do the export process primavera load my data as 15557 hours.

so, p6 gives me this message error “budgeted units mus be between -9999999999,00 and 9999999999,00

i’ve tried change between comma and point in the currencies option but i could not correct this mistake.

regards

marco, for act_cost to import try to make it a number, not text. i’ve had success both ways and p6 may be smart enough now to know the difference.

the formula works and add an apostroph…when i import i get the error
error: column act_cost: invalid value or data type mismatch. discarding the value
strange is that if i go back to excel , enter a cell and click on return, the apostrphe disappeare from the view but it is still there and the upload works fine…
i’m going crazy..
why does’nt works..i would avoid to enter all the cell..!!!
thank you for any tip
brgds

what fields are you trying to import? will need to know about more about what you’re trying to accomplish.

i get below message while trying to download:
“you do not have the required access privilege to download this patch.”

this caused by a known bug in p6 16.2. it’s fixed in a recent service pack that you can download here: mind you will have to login to oracle’s site to download it. https://updates.oracle.com/orion/services/download/p24971206_162000_generic.zip?aru=20722389&patch_file=p24971206_162000_generic.zip

hi robert,
i got the same error and appreciate your help.
hassan
hr_ie2006@yahoo.com

hi robert, i have same issue with p6 16.2 version. in case you find the solution please inform me as well, sparvaz@gmail.com
thank you.

i made the export first & copied the data wanted in the columns and it just won’t go & i have done this processs over 1000 times with other p6 environments. i am using a stand alone p 6 16.2 version.

any ideas?

anyone have any advice on this – i have set the data in the import field to be text, including the apostrophe prefix, and have checked “auto-compute actuals” is turned off on all of my expenses…

thanks in advance 🙂

can you please tell me
i have the per floor concrete, formwork rebar quantities and cost with me.

now i need to load it into p6 and there are 20000 activities

i dont know how to go about it

should i use excel or manually load it per floor in p6
please advice

thanks

i’m sorry, i do not understand. can you please explain your issue in more detail. i’m not familiar with cot data.
michael

my total budgeted labor unit in excel is 100,000 but when i import into excel it became 136800. please advice what could have gone wrong? tried all ways but could not figure out the error

the big yellow sticky note

@s roy it is always recommended to only import excel files that have been first exported from the same project and then modified.

please advise how to slove this error, as while importing the fields are not properly imported in the project

ps regarding the wbs re-sorting it has to do with a hidden sort order that i’m yet to work out, but you can see it by parsing the xer file. search for parsing details on this planertuts website.