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Calendar problem detected, Your project is too lon

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scott aitken
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I’m getting the above message on Primavera Look when scheduling.

I think this is the error that is stopping me from extending an existing plan past a certain date (the dates are greyed out on the drop box, so I can’t move EF dates past a certain date).

I’ve made sure that the Project Overview Project must finish by is at the date I want, but the EF is at an earlier date.

I also took all start conatraint dates off that were before the data date.

Any ideas?

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Bill Guthrie
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Scott, had this error message pop up a wile ago, and found that I had on one activity entered the wrong as date as prior to project start date. after fixing this, it cleared up. ie, put in wrong year,etc.
regards bill
Philip Jonker
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Hi Scott,

You can do this by making a copy and changing the the planning units there, there is a help topic in P3 that explains it, under "planning units, revising".
However, I have in the past done it by exporting, and manually changing durations and successor lags in excel, by mass editing, according to calendars and then importing. In your instance exporting from the hourly project, and importing to a daily project.This can also be used to check the copy method. The main concern I have about the copy method, is that when you have multiple calenders, that the durations are calculated correctly for the various activity calendars.

Regards

Philip
scott aitken
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The planning units are actually in Hours, so I think this may be the problem. How do I change these to days?
Philip Jonker
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Hi Scott,

There is a few posibilities:

P3 has a maximum number of planning units it allows.

Go to file->project overview and check the project start date and the project must finish by date. Should this be longer than the maximum allowable number of planning units it could be your problem. It could also be due to the PSD being set too early. If the project must end by date is set too early move it out.

Other than this check your calendars, both the scheduling and resource calenders.

Regards

Philip

Dayanidhi Dhandapany
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Scott,

The other option you can try is, check your final network’s activities sequence and increase the duration and see whether it reaches the required project completion period.

HTH

Daya
Waseem Saber
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Hi, Scot.

there is a possiblity that the activites duration do not comply with the end date(correct me if i am wrong)as this happens if the total duration for the activities should show the same or else you can make a constriant for EF, LF for Dec’2008 and i am sure it might help

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Dayanidhi Dhandapany
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Hello Scott,
I think this is the first time i am hearing about this kind of calendar problem, have u checked your programme with some other machine(where P3 installed). How many calendars did you assign to your projects, check your activity’s calendar where it stops at May 2008.

please brief me further.

Regards

Daya
scott aitken
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Runs from Jan 2005, want it to go to Dec 2008, currently stops at May 2008.

Units are in days, displyed in months.
Dayanidhi Dhandapany
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could you tell me about your project duration and planning unit of activity?.