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Importing and Exporting Information
You can export information from one project and import it into another project, or export information from one program and import it into another program on the same system or a different Windchill system. Generally, you can only import into a system at the same or higher release version as the system from which the data was exported. You can export project or program information as a template. A site or organization administrator can then create a template from that information that can be reused by the organization.
You can also save an existing project or program as a new project or program as a means of quickly starting a similar project or program.
You can also import a Microsoft Project plan into the system and export project and program information from Windchill into the Microsoft Project format.
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By default, milestones that have resources assigned in Microsoft Project are converted to activities in Windchill ProjectLink. To change this behavior so that milestones that have resources assigned in Microsoft Project are converted to milestones in Windchill ProjectLink and the resources are dropped, set the following property to TRUE in the wt.properties file:
wt.projmgmt.msproject.dropMilestoneResource