Creating New Work Items from Tasks
You can also add new Tasks in MS Project to an export document originating from Codebeamer. When adding a new Task Codebeamer will automatically recognize that this is a new Task (because it has no hyperlink to a Codebeamer work item).
The importer GUI will indicate that this is a new data, and a new work item (bug, task, etc.) will be created from this.
As consequence you can use following tips:
• By removing the "Hyperlink" from any Task in MS Project will force creation of a new work item in Codebeamer.
• If you remove the "ID" mapping during import completely you can import all MS Project tasks to any tracker as new work items.
Importing to Description
As mentioned during the export the "Description" field of CB work items are exported to the "Notes" field in MS Project. You can potentially modify this information by editing the Nodes field, however you cannot modify the Description field this way, because the import ignores this field for existing work items. (It is ignored because this field is typically abbreviated to 1000 characters)
However for new work items being created the Notes field will be used, and will be inserted as Description field.