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Export to MS Project and multiple resources to one role

Former Member
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Ok, after this rather cryptic title i will explain my problem:

We are currently in a project where we have the following requirement:

A download of cProjects needs to be imported into MS Project 2007.

When a project role is staffed with multiple resources in cProjects it is imported into MS Project as a single role with only the first resource attached to it. All the other resources are nowhere to be found.

Does anyone have a solution to this?

Edited by: Miel Claessens on Jul 16, 2010 12:57 PM

Edited by: Miel Claessens on Jul 16, 2010 12:58 PM

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Hello Miel Claessens,

Exporting Project to MS Project does not support multiple resource assignment to one role. Here each cProject Role needs to have only one resource.

The reason being that MS Project does not have Roles. The cProject Roles are exported as Resource to MS Project. There is no way to maintain all the resources staffed at that role.

Let me know if you need more clarification.

Thanks and Regards,

Piyusha

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Hello Meil,

You can try to implement your requirement in BAdI DPR_MSP_CUST_FIELDS method CUST_CONVERT_DPR2MSPINT. Here you have to convert each and every Resource assigned to a Role as individual resource in MS Project. You have to use method CUST_CONVERT_MSPINT2DPR to convert it back in Project's format.

e.g. 1) Downloading Project to MSP --> Role 1 has Resource 1 and Resource 2 then in first method you need to Create entry for Resource 1 and Resource 2 and keep track of to which role these are staffed. But this will create individual entries for each resource and will not add the resources name to Project role. Other possible implementation would be that you can maintain the Employee number of each Resource in some Text field which is not used in Field Mapping and accordingly decode these Emplyee numbers while uploading the Project from Ms project.

2) Uploading Project from MSP --> Use second method CUST_CONVERT_MSPINT2DPR to decode the above implementation to fill the Project structure for Role and Resources.

You may check it if it is possible to implement it in that way.

As a standard, as metioned earlier, it is not possible.

Thanks and Regards,

Piyusha

thomas_berndt
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Hello Miel,

unfortunately Piyusha is right.

This limitation is also documented in note 1126395.

Best regards,

Thomas

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Would a Badi be an option to change this or not?