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P3.1 Can Multiple users work 1 schedule thru network?

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Tue, 2008-11-11 09:16
Teague K
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Hello All,
I have been reading the forums for a while but joined to ask a question.

I looked through all 10 available pages of posts and I did a search for multiple users but couldn’t find the answer.

I have Primavera P3.1 and I have a single schedule for a construction project. Myself and another schedule would like to both work in the P3.1 schedule to add activities, manhours, and logic at the same time. We have setup a network shared folder off the server and both have access to the schedule. We can both pull it up, but when we both try to access the schedule the second try gets an error saying the schedule is already in use.

What is the best way for 2 (or more) people to work on a single schedule through the network in P3?

I also tried to use the check in check out feature of p3.1 and it copies a set of the files to my computer locally and then lets me work with the file, but when my coworker tries to get to the schedule after I have checked it out, he gets an error. I assume that is the point of check in check out, and it is working as it should, but we need to both work on the file at the same time then merge the input.

On a side note, I think there should be a separate forum for P5 and P6 posts instead of combining them in a P3 section of the forum.

thanks,
Teague
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Wed, 2008-11-12 23:32
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Teague K
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Thanks,
Sorry if I sounded pissed, it’s just frustrating trying to work around our issues while still trying to complete the needed schedule.

I asked for p6 but our client said they didn’t want it, couldn’t use it, and they already had p3. I think it was a case of the clients side not being familiar with p6 and they were afraid to use something new...

I was also thinking we could break up each division of the project into their own project sub groups and put them together somehow?
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Wed, 2008-11-12 22:56
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Ferdinand Fincale...
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Hello Teague,

May I suggest an alternative solution to your networking problem. Since you are working at a common work program, I guess you both have a division of labor and that one maybe working on the engineering and procurement part, and the other one maybe working on the construction part. If that is the case, you may both work on the same separate copies of the program, then later on just "MERGE" your data inputs. Just take note that you need to set final WBS of the program before working on it to avoid complications in merging data.

This is just a suggestion as I don’t have much idea with working on primavera in the network. I am just trying to help to keep you going with your tasks.

In Friendship,
Ferdinand
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Wed, 2008-11-12 21:53
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Teague K
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so how do you do it and still be able to edit the entire schedule?

We get locked out when we try to open it exclusively...

We are adding activities so we need to be able to edit the activity IDs, and therefore need exclusive rights...

The answer that I know is coming, "don’t open it exclusive" isn’t an option.

So how do I get it to work?
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Tue, 2008-11-11 13:33
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Teague K
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We decided to just start a new blank schedule, import all the dictionaries and activity codes and input all the activities into the seperate schedule. Then open up both schedules and copy and paste the tasks from one to the the other.

any other way that P3.1 is setup to allow multi users?
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