Importing from Microsoft Project
You can also importing planning information and Tasks from Microsoft Project into a tracker. That way:
• You can import a new MS Project (.mpp) file to Codebeamer and create new work items from Tasks
• You can import a previous MS Project export file of Codebeamer back, which will update the work items in Codebeamer.
• While updating the Codebeamer work items you can also create new CB work-items at the same time.
The import will:
• Automatically detect MS Project Tasks which already exists in Codebeamer and update them
• Update the parent-child hierarchy in Codebeamer to reflect the possibly changed hierarchy of Tasks in MS Project
• Update the Predecessor-successor dependencies in Codebeamer to reflect such changes in MS Project
Initiating an import in Codebeamer
The MS Project import can be found on the same location where other kind of imports (Word and Excel) are: in the tracker's "more" menu by clickin on the import will start the import wizard where MS Project files can be imported too.
You can upload an *.mpp or a *.xml file (the latter is the XML export compatible with Microsoft Project) here.
After an MS Project file is uploaded the importer wizard will behave similarly to how it works with Excel import or Excel roundtrip. Each Tasks from the MS Project data will in a new line, with the importable Task properties are in one column. You can also adjust mapping and do conversion if necessary the same way as you would do with an Excel import there.