Home
The home screen is the first thing you will see when you start up Safran Risk. It contains several links that will help you get started. The home screen changes when you open up a project.
No project open
In the top left corner, you will find the following links:
- Create New Project - This lets you create a new project in the database that you're connected to.
- Open project - Displays a dialog showing all projects you can access in the database.
- Import Safran Project file - This lets you import a Safran .spx file. This file holds all the schedule information in your risk model. The risk information is in a .xml file that can be imported from the home screen when a project is open.
- Import External Project file - This lets you import an external file, meaning a file not generated by Safran. It can, for example, be a .xer file from P6 or an .xml file from Microsoft Project. Several other formats are also supported. See the section: Importing External files for more information about this.
Below these links, you will find a list of recent projects.
To the right, you can find the global options and link that lets you switch databases.
Project Open
When a project is opened, the Home screen changes.
The top left corner now shows you some statistics about the current project.
Below, you will find some helpful links:
- Export Risk Model - This allows you to export the risk model to an XML file. The risk model contains all the risk info for the project (basically all the tabs except the schedule tab). You must export two files to extract a complete model from a database: the .spx file and the risk model XML file. The .spx model can be exported from the schedule tab.
- Import Risk Model - Save As…. This allows you to make a copy of the model in the database. It can be beneficial for testing a new scenario or backing up.
- Close Project
To the right, we have the global options. The "Change Database" is not there since it's not possible to change the database when a project is open.
Importing External files
Projects can be exported from other tools and imported into Safran Risk. This is done by clicking on the "Import External files" link in the Home tab. The import will convert the project data to a Safran Risk project. Since different tools work in various ways, the import might need to make small changes to the project. The import aims to create a project in Safran that will generate the same dates and costs as the project did in the tool from which it originated. To control that this is what happens, the import saves down the original dates and costs to user fields. These can be used to validate the calculated values in Safran Risk.
The Safran Risk import currently supports the following file formats:
| Tool | File format |
|---|---|
| P6 | .xer |
| P6 | .xml |
| Microsoft Project | .mpp |
| Microsoft Project | .xml |
| Asta Powerproject | .pp |
More file formats might be supported in the future.
The import takes you through a wizard that has the following steps:
- Select file
Here, you can select any of the support file types. If the file is not supported, you will get a message.
- Set Import Options
These options will affect how the data in the file is converted to a project in Safran Risk. The available options vary depending on the selected file type. The most important option is the "Planning Unit". This decides the granularity with which durations and calendars will be stored in Safran. The larger the granularity, the quicker Safran can analyze the project. Therefore, you should always aim to use days, even if you might lose some accuracy.
- Warnings
Sometimes, the import cannot import the data precisely as it is in the tool from where it originated. In that case, warnings will be displayed. If you find that the results of the schedule analysis in Safran significantly differ from the ones in the other tool, the warnings might be a good place to start to understand why this happens. After the import, you can also see all the activity-related warnings as a column in Safran Risk.
- Save to database
The project has been converted and can be saved to the Safran database. This view lets you see the existing projects and select the name of the imported project. If you select an existing name, you will see an extra step where you can choose to overwrite, update, or append to the existing project.
Once you've gone through all the steps in the wizard, your project should be saved in the database, and the layout called "Import check". This layout will, by default, have some columns that let you compare the original dates with the ones calculated by Safran. It's important that there is no significant difference between these dates.
