Hello Planners,
one customer of mine is using a large number of baselines with his projects, more than ten actually
he says that, because he frequently restores and reassigns baselines to Primary/Second/Third baseline, Primavera P6 is displaying links between the current project and a restored baseline; some activities show both correct relationships with aother activities in the current project AND dummy links with activities in the baseline project, identified with the Project ID column in the Activity Details Form, Pred/Succ tab
does somebody have an explanation of this behavior, and know how to suppress these dummy links?
Thanks, Alexandre
Ronald,
thanks a lot for your interesting reply; how amazing it is!
I wonder how the engineering group at Primavera can explain this rule on a theoretical point of view.
I will report to my customer
Alexandre
I had a customer who had the same problem. He had a program where the various schedules were related to each other. We found this when our Schedule Analyzer Enterprise Forensic software kept reporting on Current Schedule-to-Baseline Schedule relationships. When he restored the Baselines, extra inter-project relationships appeared. Not only is the restored schedule related to another baseline in a different schedule – it is also related to the current schedule.
He complained to Primavera and opened a case issue. After much defining and creating examples of the problem, the Primavera Engineers said that this is the way the software is supposed to work. Baseline-to-Current Schedule relationships may exist but (according to the Primavera Engineer) they are never considered when computing the CPM. He was allowed to submit an enhancement request, but the customer service person said that it would not stand much of a chance of ever happening.
To help out our customer, we wrote a routine that displays these odd relationships and then allows the user to delete them. We put it in our current Baseline Checker module. He uses this routine periodically to clean-up his programs.