Like you, I am involved in a project divided in many schedules.
If you launch global calculation on projects having different DD, P6 will automatically calculate all projects with the smalest date. Depending of your way to update projects, Primavera could produce some interesting results.
For instance, you have a DD on January 13rd. You have considered one activity started on January 10th.
Unfortunally, you open several others projects and one has a DD on January 01st. P6 will launch calcul on January 01st for all opened projects. Your activity declared as started on 10th will be shown starting on 1st. Remaining duration will be increased by 9 days. When you will have changed your DD from 01st to 13rd, If you don't have input an "expected finish date", your activity started on 10th will be be completed 9 days after what you expect before.
By the way if your activity started on January 10th have successor, start date of this successor will be on DD. If you have considered an expected finish this time, remaining duration will be increased also. Same consequence as previously.
If your previous lead planner were asking you to close projects and to log out, it was mainly (in my mind) to avoid any modification during calculation and to ensure the final result.
I was thinking about why we were being requested to close all projects and logout so that the Lead Planner could shift the data date of the master schedule in my previous project.
In my current project, we almost have the same EPS structure and I am working on one of the projects that are part of that EPS, but there are different data dates on each one. I was thinking if shifting the data date separately could present a problem on calculations of start or finish dates.
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19 years 7 monthsHi Miguel,Like you, I am
Hi Miguel,
Like you, I am involved in a project divided in many schedules.
If you launch global calculation on projects having different DD, P6 will automatically calculate all projects with the smalest date. Depending of your way to update projects, Primavera could produce some interesting results.
For instance, you have a DD on January 13rd. You have considered one activity started on January 10th.
Unfortunally, you open several others projects and one has a DD on January 01st. P6 will launch calcul on January 01st for all opened projects. Your activity declared as started on 10th will be shown starting on 1st. Remaining duration will be increased by 9 days. When you will have changed your DD from 01st to 13rd, If you don't have input an "expected finish date", your activity started on 10th will be be completed 9 days after what you expect before.
By the way if your activity started on January 10th have successor, start date of this successor will be on DD. If you have considered an expected finish this time, remaining duration will be increased also. Same consequence as previously.
If your previous lead planner were asking you to close projects and to log out, it was mainly (in my mind) to avoid any modification during calculation and to ensure the final result.
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Frederic
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16 yearsThanks Nasar for your
Thanks Nasar for your reply.
I was thinking about why we were being requested to close all projects and logout so that the Lead Planner could shift the data date of the master schedule in my previous project.
In my current project, we almost have the same EPS structure and I am working on one of the projects that are part of that EPS, but there are different data dates on each one. I was thinking if shifting the data date separately could present a problem on calculations of start or finish dates.
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14 years 7 monthsis it not possible for you to
is it not possible for you to change the data date individually so as not to impact on any other projects? although this owuld take longer i assume!