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In SDEF files, values in the Contract Number field cannot be longer than six characters. If you do not create these UDFs, the Contract Number and Contractor Name fields will be blank when you convert an XER file to an SDEF file. These UDFs must have a Data Type of Text. To store this data in a Project Management module project before you convert it to SDEF, you must create Project UDFs named ‘Contract Number’ and ‘Contractor Name’. If the Contract Number and Contractor Name UDFs were previously defined in a project (to be used for a different purpose), you should rename the preexisting UDFs before importing an SDEF file.
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When converting an SDEF file to XER, if the Contract Number and Contractor Name fields do not exist as user-defined fields (UDFs) in the Project Management module project, they will be automatically created during the import process. These fields do not exist in the Project Management module.
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