Project and Checklist templates - Copy

Hi,
We are on PPM5.0.
Is it possible to copy project and/or checklist templates from one client/system to another? We are not carrying out any client or system copy.
We have a significant number of projects and checklist templates in a training client. These templates are now required to be created in the Quality client (another system). Creating them all over again would be a big effort and we are looking at ways (direct or indirect) of copying the existing templates into the new client/system.
Please advise.
Thanks.

Hi Deepak,
Have you considered exporting to MS Project and Importing into QA client? Disadvantages are you will need to do this for each project and when importing you will have first import (as a simulation) into an operational project and then create a template out of the operational project.
PPM5.0 also has a data import utility (tcode DPR_DX_PROJECT), however, exporting the data into a spreadsheet may be a challenge.
Regards,
Lashan

Similar Messages

Solar_project_admin, projects and specific templates in SCOPE tab

Hello all,
I'm searching for a solution to import specific templates in SOLAR_PROJECT_ADMIN > My_Project > Scope tab > Template selection.
Is there an easy way to upload my owns ?
Thanks a lot.

HI ,
To use the template project you have to first create a template of your own.
Steps to create and use the Template .
1. Create a project in "solar_project_admin" select the project type as TEMPLATE project and create the business senarioes and the solutions that you need to give as template.
2. Next in solar_project _admin if you go and see in the template tab the above newly created template will be available.
3. Check the template and save now all the scope and the process you need to add will be available in this .
Regards,
Umesh

Copying a project and network structure

Dear experts,
I have a problem in copying the project.
I am using Investment management. After approval of the project I'm activating the measure at the time of activating the WBSE there is an option of copying the operative project or std. project, when I mention the operative project in copy filed and save, the project structure upto WBSE levels are copying. Upto this it is fine.
The networks are not copying by this method. I'm trying to create a network with reference network. Its copying that particular network along with the relationships within the same network.
But my problem is we are using PS for R&D projects and all the projects are having similar structure, so i want to copy the whole project structure mainly the relationships of other networks also.
I tried using CJ2D, here I can only cerate a new project without investment management. Here when i create a project with reference to another project the system copies everything like all level WBSE and Network activities with all relationships I mentioned in the earlier networks. Actually this is the requirement I'm looking at. But I'm not able to get this done when I'm using investment management.
Can anyone please help me in sorting out this issue.
My major problem is R&D project contains so many activities and with lot of relationships within the network and also with other network activates. And we will be having nearly 100 projects per year and creating the same kind of networks every time is a very huge task.
Please some one through lights on this issue.
Thanks and Regards,
Praveen.

Hi Elza,
Thanks for your inputs, really helpful.
I follwed like this, activated the project deifinition in appropriate request saved it. Then in CJ20N I opened the project and in template area I have opened the operative project's level 1 WBSE element and dragged the same to the new project definition, system copied everything from the operative proejct structure all WBSE and the network activities with the relationships as such.
But I have one more doubt. What happens to the link between the Appropriation Request and the Project? Like when I used to activate the proejct definition and create a project from appropriation request there is link between the approriation request ans the project and copies the planned values to the project, and also controls the budget values w.r.t the project.
But what happens in this case? how the link is established and the budget is controlled? Can you please clarify this also?
Thanks again for your help.
Regards,
Praveen.
Regards

Can't create Project from the Template or access project template

Dear Experts,
We are facing a issue while trying to access the project template/create the project from project template.
we have 4 project template in place and of these two are working perfectly fine but
From remaining two we are not being able to create project and even templates are not accesible , whenever we are trying to access the project template system rotates a circle for some time and keeps us on the same page.
Even when we are trying to create project from the same template, system does the same again rotates the circle for some time and keeps us on the same screen.
And System is not throwing any error for the same (we have checked in the log as well) just not letting us in and not allowing us to create project.
Any Help Will be Highly Appreciated.
Regards,
Rakesh Daiya

Dear Experts,
We were able to find out the issue,
We added 3 groups to the template with "Reviewer" access with "Document Only" Type in the project template.
When we changed the type to "Template and Document" from "Document Only" and system started allowing us to create projects from the template.
Can anyone please help me with one query,
Can we add a group(which includes all the buyers) with reviewer access and with Document only type?
Does this really be a reason behind projects are not getting created from template?
Any help will be appreciated
Regards,
Rakesh Daiya

How to connect Template project and Implementation project

Hi Experts,
     I would like to know how to connect Template project and Implementation project
    in Solution maneger.   Please help.
Best regards,
   Gaito

Hey Gaito,
great. Now that you have a template project, you need to create one or more templates within the project template.
Go to tab Templates (of your Templ Proj) and activate 'Global Rollout Functionnality' to be able to use the templates.
Create a new template thanks to button create. Visibility will be set to red 'private'. You ll have to set it to visible so it becomes visible from your implementation project.
You ll see when trying to do that next message 'No scenarios/configuration structures assigned to the template XXXX'. That means that in SOLAR01 you did not define a scenario that ll be used in template you re trying to create
In order to do that go to SOLAR01 for template project, select/create scenarios in tab structure and set in column template value of your template (the one you re creating in SOLAR_PROJECT_ADMIN) and in Global Attribute set value t Global
You l definitely find more info on this in sap document SMI310 (course). I don t know if you can find it on internet
Hope this helps
Regards
Khalil

Would like project entry on Recurring JEs and Posting Templates

From our customer:
Version: SAP 2007A PL 49
Description of requirements: (When setting up recurring entries and Posting Templates there is no place to enter the project code. There is a field to enter the distribution code. For some monthly recurring entries such as vehicle insurance, we wish to record a project code on the recurring journal entry which represents the vehicle.
Valid as of: (Not a legal requirement)
Business needs: (We use project codes to record all expenses against a given area. Automated postings such as recurring journal entries that do not post to the project codes jeopardize the accuracy of reports afterwards.)
Examples: (When creating a new Recurring Journal Entry, there should be a field displayed that allows the user to enter a valid Project Code just like there is for Distribution (Cost Centre) Code. Then when the Recurring Journal Entry is added on the proper date it will contain the valid Project Code.)
Current Workaround: (Manually add the project code to the newly created journal entries after the fact. Hard to find entries and high possibility to miss entries or make mistakes.)
Proposed solution: (Please see response under Examples.)
Sally Weinrauch,
Senior Support Analyst
Coastal Range Systems Inc.
Recipients of: SAP's Partner of the Year 2007 & 2005,
North America's Top Ten 2008, 2007 & 2006.
Edited by: CRS Notes on Jul 22, 2009 10:39 PM

Hi
Adding "project" into Recurring posting and Posting templates has been already considered for B1 later version.
Yan

Hi i have just completed an imovie project and tried to save a hard copy on the desktop so i dragged the project file from the home page then movies folder and now the prioject seems to be lost , how can i get it back ?

hi i have just completed an imovie project and tried to save a hard copy on the desktop so i dragged the project file from the home page then movies folder and now the prioject seems to be lost , how can i get it back ?

It's a Finder feature, related to Quick Look. You can hit the space bar in the file list to get a preview.
If that doesn't work, you may have an issue witha preference file or similar. I find rebuilding the launch databse works quite well resilving tis kind of thing, as does trashing Finder preferences

IMovie quits while copying projects and events to an external HD. Any ideas?

Here is my problem: i was running out of disk space and wanted to move my projects and events to a new, external WD hard drive. I followed to normal procedure and moved the projects within iMovie 11 to the new (meanwhile connected and displayed) WD drive. I selected to copy both, projects and events to this drive and iMovie started copying. After a while the prog crashed. Does anyone have an idea what else I can do? Is this a bug of iMovie?

I found the solution and just want to share with you...
1. I closed iMovie
2. I renamed my existing root folder projects and events by adding a '_' at the beginning of the folder name.
3. I copied all my content (projects and events) within the finder and not as normally recommended within iMovie from the internal to the new external hard drive.
4. When starting iMovie again the newly copied folder are recognized and it takes a while (depending of the amount of clips and projects) until iMovie is available after this start.
5. The events and projects are now shown in the new external harddrive and all files are accesible. Also all clips from the events are correctly linked in the projects.
I have tried this way since the normal decribed routine did not work on my iMac (iMovie crashed every time).

Imovie crashing when copying Projects and Events to external

This is driving me crazy. Imovie keeps crashing when I try and copy some of my projects and events to the external from within iMovie. I can copy the project and event files separately as a work-around, but it's taking me forever. These are very short movies, less than 3 minutes, and the original footage is from a Kodak zi6. I've already copied more than 40, and all went well. Now it keeps crashing.
Why can't I just copy from the Finder. It would be a LOT faster. I'd like to keep the projects/ events linked so that I can edit in the future, if necessary.
External: Firewire, Guid Partition Table, and Mac OS extended (journaled). Lots of free room on both drives.

I found the solution and just want to share with you...
1. I closed iMovie
2. I renamed my existing root folder projects and events by adding a '_' at the beginning of the folder name.
3. I copied all my content (projects and events) within the finder and not as normally recommended within iMovie from the internal to the new external hard drive.
4. When starting iMovie again the newly copied folder are recognized and it takes a while (depending of the amount of clips and projects) until iMovie is available after this start.
5. The events and projects are now shown in the new external harddrive and all files are accesible. Also all clips from the events are correctly linked in the projects.
I have tried this way since the normal decribed routine did not work on my iMac (iMovie crashed every time).

How can I copy projects and events to an external hard drive from iMovie 10?

I have created a project in iMovie 10, which I would now like to share with a colleague, in a form in which he can edit just like I can. I do not see a way to copt projects and events to an external hard drive, the way I could from previous versions of iMovie. Any suggestions?

You can copy an iMovie 10 library to an external volume (HD, Thumb drive etc.) with the Finder so as to share it with a colleague. You may find the following link helpful:
http://help.apple.com/imovie/mac/10.0/#mov3fa25bae7
Before copying the library you have to make sure that all media is in the library. Media from iTunes, iPhoto and similar are by default linked to my iMovie and not copied to the library. To resolve this you may need to consolidate media before you copy the library. See for details:
http://help.apple.com/imovie/mac/10.0/#mov882dee351
Note that your colleague has to be using the same version of iMovie. Even different minor updates may cause problems.
I hope this helps.
Geoff.

Edit Motion project as Motion template in FCP timeline?

Hi,
I'd like to know is it possible to turn basic Motion project into Motion template in Final Cut Pro timeline? If not possible I think this would be a great feature because it simply takes too much time to copy motion projects for example to 10 edits /library/motion... folder to have them accessible as templates. I know it wouldn't be possible to see preview videos this way but I wouldn't care. Motion templates are a great tool but this way a little bit too slow to use for simple text animations etc.

In FCP, right-click the Motion project and choose open in editor. In Motion, choose save as template.

Adjust changes in Implementation Project back to Template Project

Hello All,
Please can you help with transaction SA_PROJECT_UPGRADE, the case is as follow:
STEP 1
- Template project is created including process structure and documents, template is activated
- Implementation project: is created derived from template project.
- In Template project: Change in pocess node made: added an new process node
- Run SA_PROJECT_UPGRADE with checked box "New Version of Original" and chosen project: Implementation project
- Implementation project: the yellow boxes appears on the appropriate place and button "adjust to original" is used.
So far, so good
STEP 2
- Implementation project: a new process node is added, project is saved
- Run SA_PROJECT_UPGRADE with checked box "'Current Version in Project" and chosen project: Implementation project
- Template project: no changes are visible in SOLAR01 or SOLAR02
- In SOLAR01: settings -> User specific -> box checked "Dislay changes made in project"
So far, NOT good.
Resume:
- using transaction SA_PROJECT_UPGRADE from Template -> Implementation Project works according documentation
- using transaction SA_PROJECT_UPGRADE from Implementation Project -> Templates does not work according documentation
Does anybody recognise this?
Or do I oversee something?
System: SSM 4.0 updated to SP13
Thanks in advance
Rutger Koppelaar

Hi Rutger (& all others watching this thread),
I would like to make certain corrections to one of the points posted by me:
2) Within a Template Project, any actual changes to the document does not offer itself as a 'change' while doing comparison on Implementation Project. In other words, after a given Scenario and all its associated documentation are copied into an Implementation project, if a given document at a given node needs to be edited, it's better to create a new document and upload it in Template Project than to open & change the same document. If the same document is edited, the Compare and Adjust cannot see that as 'difference'.
On the above point, I have now see better/different results with my recent work; not sure if this is version/ support package specific.
Environment:
SolMan 4.0
SAP_BASIS - Release 700 Level 0013
SAP_ABA - Release 700 Level 0013
ST - Release 400 Level 0014
Assumption: Both the Template and Implementation Projects are in the same SolMan instance and not a case where the Template is being transported into another instance!
Findings (please bear with this verbose description; one day I intend creating a Blog instead, to list all these points):
(1) In General Documentation Tab of Template Project, any changes made is instantly visible in General Documentation Tab of the Implementation project - not even dependent on running SA_PROJECT_UPGRADE transaction
If you indeed run this transaction - in foreground or background, and later check the Implementation Project, it would not highlight that node as having undergone any change. However, if you double click the document itself, you'd be pleasantly surprosed that it opens the most updated version you maintained in the Template Project. No need for 'Compare and Adjust'.
(2) In Test Cases Tab - any change you make to Test Document in Template Project is again instantly available for the Implementation Project that had inherited the document, provided no manual changes were done to that document in the Implementaiton Project directly. Again, no need to run SA_PROJECT_UPGRADE transaction or the subsequent 'Compare and Adjust' function
2a) If, however, the Test Document was altered in Implementation Project subsequently, the chain gets broken (in my understanding so far), and any subsequent changes made in Template Project does not become 'instantly' visible in Implementation Project - the two behave as though they are different documents
In such a case, if you desire to 'restore' the supremacy of Template Project's contents, run SA_PROJECT_UPGRADE transaction, and after the background job finishes, visit Implementation Project concerned. The node where the Documents differ is not highlighted (unfortunately). However, if you are aware of that node, and hit 'Compare and Adjust' button the ensuing Window does tell you with a # sign on the right hand panel that the Document has indeed changed in the original. You can 'adjust' that and save.
Once this is done, and also you vow to not change the document in Implementation Project directly, the link between the two is kind of re-established. Any subsequent alterations you make in the Test Case at Template Project would be instantly visible from Implementation Project, as before !
I have tried to explain precisely what I experiemented and found. I hope this works consistently
The ways in which Document linkages are established and pointers to KW object IDs work is rather inscrutable for me, without ABAP support.
I'll update any further findings here.
Please keep a watch.
Thanks and regards,
Srini

Project Creation from Template

Hello Experts,
Does anyone know how can I create a Project from a template inside an ABAP Program. Are there any functions for this? Thank you very much.

Dear Customer,
In PS, the only way you can create your project from a template is as you already have described by running CJ20N and going to menu path Project > New > Copy Project. As far as I aware, you can not include this into an ABAP Program.
Apologies for not being more positive this time.
Kind Regards,
Enrique Sosa
Edited by: Enrique Sosa Dominguez on Dec 8, 2009 12:16 PM

Difficult with different coding masks for operative and std templates.

Hi Experts
I have below coding masks
OP-XXXX-XX-XX For operative structures (not allowed for std templates)
ST-XXXX-XX-XX For std tempplates (not allowed for operative structures)
But i am unable to create operative project using std template.
I have disabled Lck for std mask and tried, then i could create project but the operative project got created with WBS element's short id 'ST' and not with 'OP'
How to ensure getting the right WBS id while copying from different standard coding mask?
warm regards
ramSiva

Hi Ahmed
I have gone through help, but i did not get any clue to make use different project IDs for std and operative.
I am just looking for this to have dedicated structures for both std and operative, due to which one can easily recognise the nature by seeing the project id.
Of course, it is very comfortable using unique project ID / coding mask for both. Still i am exploring. You may suggest if feasible.
warm regards
ramSiva

Export checklist templates (workaround?)

Hey people,
We are changing form a sandboxsystem to a development system.
I created several large checklist templates and i would like to reuse them in the new system.
Is there a possibility to export and import them ?
This post says exporting templates is not possible:
cProjects - IDES data
cProjects - IDES data
But since it's in XML i think there should exist a workaround?
example : If we know the location we can manually copy them or somehting?
Plz adivce
Thanks alot in advance

Hey,
In that case, you would again need to create this at the time of creation in Production Server?
If so, try creating a program using RFC, (based on maintainable table entries) run the code in Dev to fetch data from Sandbox and this way you can still use this in Production to pull from Quality/Testing.
Another option is to save the data form Sandbox in XLS and then import using same program
your custom program can have radio button [import] [export]
In Sandbox use [Export]
In Devl use [Import]
Try using following FMs in program, its pretty easy.
BAPI_BUS2164_CREATE
BAPI_BUS2164_GET_DETAIL
Let me know if it helps!
Niranjan

Project and Checklist templates - Copy

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for