When you export a project that contains manual future period assignment values to MSP:
- Manual future period buckets are imported to MSP as a Contoured curve.
- If the Timescale Units setting in MSP is smaller than the setting in the P6 export file (as specified in the 'Interval for time-distributed resource calculations' field in User Preferences), the manual future period buckets are spread linearly across the smaller timescale in MSP. If you change the MSP timescale setting to match the P6 Professional timescale setting, the buckets will display the proper values.
- Since MSP does not use forecast dates, if the P6 export file displays time-distributed data using forecast dates (as specified in User Preferences, Resource Analysis tab), assignments with manual future period buckets are spread linearly in MSP.
- For manually-planned assignments to activities with suspend and resume dates, MSP honors the suspend and resume dates and spreads the budgeted or planned unit values accordingly in the Baseline Work field; however, because P6's Actual Units and Remaining (Early) Units are combined into MSP's Actual Work field, MSP only honors actual and remaining values up to the Suspend Date or the Data Date, depending on when the activity's suspend and resume dates fall. If the suspend and resume dates are both before the Data Date, MSP spreads the Actual Work up to the Data Date; if only the Suspend Date is before the Data Date, MSP spreads the Actual Work up to the Suspend Date.