# Feature ES-18 - Maintain relations through Excel sync

Project: Excel Sync
Status: closed
URL: https://community.openproject.org/work_packages/ES-18

## Planning

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| Date | 2019-05-21 –  |
| Priority | Medium |
| Target versions | Wish List |
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## Description

When creating a template for later use in 20 projects of a similar structure, we notice that when using the copy project functionality, the relations of type 'follows' and 'precedes' are lost in the process.

Also, when trying to find a workaround using the separate API Excel, I could not add the columns for those relations.

Conclusion: I am forced to redefine those relations in all 20 projects, one by one and manually.