The following table lists the supported objects when you are importing a P6 XML file in order to create a project schedule.
Note that the activity sheet selected will have the project schedule start date updated from the source, if there are activities with the start date earlier than the project schedule start date. In this case, the earliest start date will be the project schedule start date. If the project schedule start date is set to begin from the project start date defined in shell attributes, in the case of activities earlier than schedule start date, then Unifier displays an error message.
Business Objects | Description | Unifier |
|---|---|---|
Project Information (Project) | This is the highest level of information related to the project schedule. | With the import of P6 XML, the following project properties will be added to the activity sheet properties: Project Schedule Start Date, Calendar (if exists in Unifier; otherwise, the default project or shell calendar will be used), and Data Date. |
Activity (Elements under Activity) | This is the parent node to all child business objects connected to any activity. | The import process will map non-complex type child elements from the Activity to Unifier Activity data elements. |
Relationship (Elements under Relationship) | The <Relationship> element exists directly under the project. It stores predecessor and successor relationships between activities. It also supports relationships between activities from different projects. | The import process will only look at predecessor and successor relationships between activities in the same project. |
WBS (Elements under WBS) | The WBS element wraps one or more activities. WBS elements can itself contain other WBS elements. | The import process will map all WBS Summaries from source to Unifier WBS data elements in WBS Sheet. |
Assignment (Elements under Assignment) | The <Assignment> element is a child of <Activity>. | The import process will import all assignments for each task. Assignment properties will be imported based upon data mapping. |
Resources/Roles (Elements under Resource/Role tags) | The resources assigned to the activities under assignments tab. | The import process will map all resources/roles from source to Unifier resources/role in Master Rate Sheet. If not available then new resources will be created. |