Deltek Acumen Options Platforms Tab

Use this tab to connect to and set options for project management platforms.

General

Field Description
Import Code Field Values as Specify whether you want to import the code field values as a value or description.

Oracle Primavera Project Management P6

Field Description
Calculate Baseline Values From Specify whether you want to calculate baseline values from planned or current values.
Web Service Timeout (seconds) Set the number of seconds before the web service times out. The default is 300.

Microsoft Project

Field Description
Activity Comparison Field Specify the field that Acumen Forensics should use to uniquely identify an activity. You can select UniqueId, Id, Guid, or WBS.

This setting only applies to MS Project. For MS Project Server, Acumen always uses the Guid.

Load MPP files directly without requiring Microsoft Project If you do not have Microsoft Project installed, you can select this option to specify that Acumen should import the MPP files directly. Direct loading is faster but less reliable than using Microsoft Project.

This setting only applies to MS Project because MS Project Server does not use .MPP files.

If the "Acumen ID" field is present, map it to "Id" Select this option to modify the default mapping when Acumen imports a project from Microsoft Project. Microsoft Project does not have an equivalent to Acumen's ID field. Selecting this option allows Acumen's ID fields to be preserved when a project is:
  1. Exported from Acumen to a Microsoft Project XML file.
  2. Edited in Microsoft Project.
  3. Exported from Microsoft Project.
  4. Re-imported into Acumen.

When Acumen exports data for Microsoft Project, it creates a user-defined field called Acumen ID. When Acumen imports a project from Microsoft Project, it looks for the user-defined field called Acumen ID. If you select this option, values from the Acumen ID field are loaded into Acumen's ID field, thus preserving the content.

This setting applies to both MS Project and MS Project Server.

Import external activities Microsoft project supports cross-project links. A cross-project link is a relationship between an internal activity (an activity in the current project) and an external activity (an activity in another project). If you select this option, Acumen imports the cross-project links and their external activities.

This setting only applies to MS Project. Acumen does not import external activities from MS Project Server.

Deltek Open Plan

Field Description
Username / Password Enter your username and password so that you don't have to enter them every time that you import an Open Plan project.
Import Code Field Definition as Specify whether you want to identify imported Open Plan code fields using their description, name, ID, or a prompt. If you select prompt, then you will be asked to specify your choice every time that you import a project. You can view the code fields on the Fields tab in the Source fields area.