Display Columns from WBS and Activities in the same Report

Question

Does anyone know how to display Columns from a WBS and an Activity together so that they can be output to Excel?
I need WBS Code, Actual Start, Actual Finish and Performance % Complete from the WBS and Activity Codes from Activities.
I can produce them in a report but this gives me all the activities in a heirarchical format which then necessitates deleting the activity lines in Excel
The Performance % complete which I want is available in Activities at the Summary Level but the Activity Codes are not at this level
I could put the Activity Codes in as Project Codes at the WBS level but this will require a lot of maintenance
Maybe someone knows an easy way to do this?
John
Edited by: user9088233 on Feb 3, 2010 11:50 PM

Answer 1

user9088233,
Your request interested me so I gave it the old college try. There are several ways to go about this task but here's one that is fairly quick and easy.
I carefully read your description of what you need from P6. I've built a test layout using the fields that you outlined. Here's what I came up with. This should bypass the issue of having to create a P6 export. My solution is to build a customized layout in P6 and copy that info and paste it into an Excel spreadsheet.+
Open P6
Open neccessary projects & open a new layout containing these columns:
....Project, WBS,Activity ID, Activity Name, Perf. %, & (any codes or user defined codes)
Group & Sort by: Project, WBS
....*Display Options* = "Show Group Totals" & "Show Summaries Only", Choose "OK"
....*Edit*, Select, All, Copy
Open Excel
....Paste Highlighted data into your new worksheet.
Hope this helps but it's usually hard to understand exactly what you need unless I can view your data,
Good Luck & let me know how it turns out,
p3_scheduler
Edited by: p3_scheduler on Feb 8, 2010 2:40 PM