Import Project Administrators

This feature allows for the importing of Project Administrators information into the Unanet system (including Project Managers, Project Leads, Project Approvers, Project Viewers, Resource Managers and Customers -- along with their project level alternates).  

Roles

This screen is available to users having any of the following roles: Administrator and P&R Administrator

License

This feature is available with any Unanet edition.

Performance Tip Note:  Depending on the number of users in your installation and other factors such as the overall performance of your platform, the activity of importing one or many files may take up to several minutes.  Should this be the case with your installation, you may want to consider running these processes at non-peak times to minimize database contention.

 

Topics covered on this help page include:

Import File Record Layout

 

 

Field Header Name

Required/Comments

1

A

Project_Org_Code

ALWAYS REQUIRED.  This code uniquely identifies the Organization to which the project belongs.  This value must match an existing Project Organization Code value defined in your system.  If the Organization you are trying to import does not already exist in the database, the entire record will be rejected.

2

B

Project_Code

ALWAYS REQUIRED.  This project code identifies the project to which this Project Administrator is being assigned.  The project code is unique within an Organization.   This value must match an existing Project Code value defined in your system.  If the Project you are trying to import does not already exist in the database,  the entire record will be rejected.

3

C

Username

ALWAYS REQUIRED.  This is the username (userid) of the person you would like to define as a project administrator. This userid  must already exist in the database.  If this userid does not exist, the entire record will be rejected.

4

D

Role

ALWAYS REQUIRED.  This field will indicate which project administrator role is being defined.  The valid values include:

  • projectManager

  • projectLead

  • projectApprover

  • projectViewer

  • resourcePlanner

  • resourceAssigner

  • resourceRequestor

  • customer

  • billingManager

  • billingViewer

 

resourceManager - beginning with version 9.3, this role is no longer recognized within Unanet.   It was replaced by two new roles.  For backward compatibility, if this role is encountered in this import, it will be substituted with both the resourcePlanner and resourceAssigner roles.  This substitution will be discontinued in a future version so measures should be taken to begin using the two new roles.

Note that you can only include one role per import record line.  If you need to assign an individual user to more than one administrator role, you will need to add several lines to the import file.

Note: When importing a new project, if the person assigned as the Project Manager has the Resource Planner, Resource Assigner or Resource Requestor role, that individual will also be assigned as the Primary Resource Planner, Assigner, Requestor for that project.  If that user does not have any of those global level roles,  you can associate them via this import or via the Project Profile >> Administrators screen.  This same defaulting does not occur when updating an existing project.

5

E

Primary_Ind

 

ALWAYS REQUIRED. This field will indicate if this user is to be a primary project administrator for the given role (vs. an alternate).  The valid values include Y  and  N.   Y indicates the user will be identified as the primary administrator role.  A value of N will indicate the user is to be identified as an alternate for the primary administrator.

6

F

Delete

This field can be used to trigger the system to delete a Project Administrator association.  In order for the delete to happen, you must include the following text string !DELETE! in this field.

Note that you cannot delete a primary approver if the project is configured to require time or expense approvals (applies to project approver and customer roles).  Any alternate user, however, can be removed at any time.

7

G

Approve_Time

Valid values include Y or N (if not provided, N is the default for a new entry).  Defines whether this project requires the  time  approval by a project or customer approver (depending on which "Role" value is supplied on this import record).

If this value is set to Y, the project must have a primary project approver defined.

Note that the value in this field will be ignored if the "Role" value on this record is not projectApprover or customer.  

8

H

Approve_Expense

Valid values include Y or N (if not provided, N is the default for a new entry).  Defines whether this project requires the  expense approval by a project or customer approver (depending on which "Role" value is supplied on this import record).

If this value is set to Y, the project must have a primary project approver defined.

Note that the value in this field will be ignored if the "Role" value on this record is not projectApprover or customer.

9

I

Customer_Approves_First

Valid values include Y or N (if not provided, N is the default for a new entry).  Defines whether any customer approvals for this project will be required to occur first (before other project or manager approvals).

If this value is set to Y, the project must have a primary customer approver defined.

Note that the value in this field will be ignored if the "Role" value on this record is not customer.

 

Note: Check out the Unanet Data model for specific field data types, lengths, and other attributes.

Import File Format

The file to import must be saved in a comma delimited format.   The fields can be enclosed in double quotes -- which would be particularly necessary should the data being imported contain commas.

Importing a Sub-Set of Columns using a Field Header Record

If you are not using the default column layout sequence as defined above, you must include a header record (prefixed with an asterisk *), containing the column Header Names for those columns you are including in the import file (to indicated what data is contained in each column).  The specific Header Names for each column are listed in the table above.

Excel Template

You can create the comma delimited import file with any number of tools.  For those interested in using an Excel spreadsheet to create the file, you can download an Excel Template with predefined headers and required fields noted.  

See the Excel Tips regarding the use of double quotes and more.

Import Screen

The Import Project Administrators screen simply looks like:

Field Descriptions:

Field

Description

Type of Import

Select the appropriate import type from the list of available types of imports.

File to Import

Enter (or browse for) the file that you would like to import.

Output Options

Specify the level of detail included in the output.  

 

The import process is triggered by pressing the Import button.  All Warnings and Error messages are written to the screen and can then be saved if desired.  While some line items may be found invalid and rejected, the remaining line items will be successfully imported and saved in the database.  The rejected line items will be written out to a file on the Unanet server as well as displayed at the bottom of the user feedback screen.  The rejected record file name will be UnanetProjectAdministratorImportErrorxxx, where xxx is a randomly generated number.  The file will be placed in the Unanet temporary directory (which is defined by the Temp Directory (Fully Qualified Directory Name) (unanet.temp_directory) Unanet property).

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