How to transfer Activity Codes from one programme

to another

Activity Codes are very useful and helpful tools to the Primavera P6 users. They have
wide applications that can be used in determining the Activities related to specific
subcontractor, trade, MEP system…. etc. Also, they are needed by the Forensic Planners
who are working on the analysis of the impacted paths and activities. So, they can assign
codes to the impacted Activities, to use filters on them, and they can transfer the code to
different programme update to monitor the behavior of those impacted Activities in them.

 These are the following steps to transfer the codes between programmes:
1- Open the programme containing the activity codes that you want to transfer
2- Export Activities from Primavera P6 to Excel using the template shown in Figure
1

3- After Exporting, open the Excel file, then delete the column of the Activity status,
to avoid any errors in importing the file again the Primavera P6.
 4- The “WBS CODE” in the exported file contains the project ID of the Programme
used to export the file from. So, you can’t Import that file to the new programme
until you change the Project ID. To do that go to the column of the “WBS CODE”
in the exported file, then press (CTRL + H), and replace the old project ID with the
new one as shown in Figure 2

5- Finally, the Excel file is ready to be exported into the new Primavera P6
Programme, but to save time from the importing process, you need to remove the
Activities that don’t have that code from the Excel file before importing it using
“Excel filters”.
Using Excel files exported from Primavera P6 can allow the user to transfer the Activity
codes easily and accurately and this method saves a lot of time and effort in setting the
codes manually on Primavera P6.