Deltek Acumen 8.6 Online Help

Using the Help Search
Using the Help Search
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Importing External Activities

In Microsoft Project, you can link an activity in another project as a predecessor or successor to an activity in your current project. These external activities display in gray in your current Microsoft project.

You can import these external activities as part of an MS Project import by setting the Import external activities option on the Deltek Acumen Options dialog box Microsoft Platforms page. The external activities display in gray in the Activities view of the S1 // Projects tab. If you select one, you can see the predecessor/successor information on the Activity Relationships sub-tab.

If you are performing an MSP interop import, Acumen displays a log window if the system can't import external activities.

These external activities are excluded from analysis by default; however, you can include them by deselecting the option in the Excluded column next to the activity in the Activity browser pane of the S2 // Diagnostics tab.

Note: Acumen does not import external activities from Microsoft Project Server.

Loading Subprojects

Sometimes when you import a Microsoft Project master project, MSP cannot find some of the subprojects. For example, they may have been moved, or the master project may no longer have access to them. When you import a master project into Acumen and MSP cannot find one of the subprojects, as soon as one of the subprojects is missing, the import stops until you navigate to MSP and manually locate the subproject or click Cancel to stop looking for the subproject.

In order to prevent the import from stopping, you can clear the Load All Subprojects option on the Deltek Acumen Options dialog box Microsoft Platforms page and Acumen will not attempt to import the subprojects. After the import is finished, Acumen displays a log with the list of subprojects that were not imported.

If you select the Load All Subprojects option, you will need to manually find each missing subproject in MSP each time there is a missing subproject.