Primavera P6 Professional version 21 introduces a powerful new feature that allows you to highlight different types of critical paths – making it easier than ever to analyze project schedules from multiple perspectives.
If you came into Primavera P6 from a Microsoft Project background, you would have noticed that actual dates have the suffix “A” appended to them, and constrained dates also have an asterisk appended. And milestones have a blank date field depending on the type of milestone.
In this YouTube video, I will show you a trick you can use to
The date formats available in Primavera P6 are very limited and to best of my knowledge, you cannot get the mmm-yy (month-year) format straight out of the box. You might want to display dates in mmm-yy if you don't want to show exact dates in issued schedules.
This P6 video outlines a workaround using UDF that can be used to achieve mmm-yy date format.
In this tutorial, I will show you 2 methods of displaying ordinal dates in a Primavera P6 schedule, the first method uses Microsoft Excel and the second uses Global Change facility in P6. Ordinal dates schedules are usually required when a project does not have a defined calendar start date.
Today I’m going to show you how to get rid of gaps that appear after the data date for activities that are in progress in Primavera P6.
Clearly defined tasks and responsibilities must be given to all project participants, in order to ensure the successful completion of the project.
After export activity table from Primavera P6 to Excel, it’s very hard to distinguish WBS level.
After export activity table from Primavera P6 to Excel, it's very hard to tell this activity belong to what WBS.
We can add 1 column to show the WBS level for each activity.
The formula for the column is : =((FIND(TRIM(B2),B2))-1)/2
Apply to the rest so we can see WBS level for each activity:
(If the image is too big, you can read the original article at this link : https://doduykhuong.com/2018/03/25/how-to-use-activity-duration-type-in-primavera-p6/ )
In Primavera P6, when we assign resource to activity there is a equation:
Original Duration x Units/Time = Total Units
( 10 days x 8 hours/day = 80 hours )
In Primavera P6, there are 2 popular activity type: Task Dependent and Resource Dependent.
So what is the difference?
By choosing Task Dependent or Resource Dependent, P6 will choose what calendar it will use for the activity:
Then it will affect the Original Duration and Finish Date of the activity.
We have Activity A with attribute as below: