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What can Asta Powerproject can do in reality?

Hi Asta Users/Planner,

 

I work in a building company. I been thinking in this few days, how can i use power project that bring benefit to my company? the benefit/productive that i mean is increase my company profit, management time and reduce the risk in the projects the normal things that i know about the powerproject are:

1. normal programme to show the crtical task & progress

2. link the procurements to the task

3. baseline to apply extension of time

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a thought of a someone wants to be a planner

Hi, I think i am a bit confuse with the application between microsoft project, primavera and asta powerproject.

I have 2 years of experience in microsoft powerproject but just shallow knowledge with programme, never involved with resources and stuff, just simply programe tasks

Primavera, have no experience

Asta Powerproject, i have 2 years of experience, i went to Asta courses in Oxfordshire.

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Reporting planned out of hours material deliveries

Need a little guidance and also my first post!!

I have a live project currently thats working 6 normal dayshifts.

Due to client instructions, the programme is being delayed and client wants to instruct acceleration. They want 2 options for a 16hr working period - 6 days a week.

The uplifts in labour for the permanent resources isn't an issue. I have set an additional overtime period in the calendar to a seperate cost centre and that reports well.

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Linking PP dates in an excel doc

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Christine P 👤 Member for 17 years 1 month

Hi all

Im creating a Master Iinformation Release Schedule in excel.  The dates are subject to change so rather than having to change them every time in the excel document, is there any way of linking the dates in the excel document to the dates in the Powerproject file, so that each time the PP dates are changed the MIRS is updated automatically please?

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Calender hours

 

Hi

   I have cereated a project with default duration of 8 hr a day,i now need to change that default duration to 9.5hrs,I created a new calender with 9.5 hrs and applied it to the activities but it changes the duration.of the activites. I chose to retain the absolute duration,in terms of hrs,minutes,seconds option still it changes the duration.could anyone help me please.

 

 

Regards

Sachin

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Help needed - Student needing you views on Asta !!

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Phil Doig 👤 Member for 15 years 6 months

Hi All,

I have to present a review of Asta Powerproject in the near future, so any help you can give would really appreciated. I've only used MSP in the past so I'm relatively new to APP.

What I need to know is the key advantages and disadvantages of using APP compared to MSP 2003. I have focused it down to three key areas.. scheduling, resourcing and budgeting. 

The more advanced features you can suggest the better as the module is called 'advanced planning and tracking' !!!

Any suggestions of what to look into would be great.

Thanks,

Phil

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Custom Formula Required

Hi all,

anyone know what i would use to get a custom colum displaying week numbers?

i need to display the week numbers from 1st Monday in March up to 52 then start again from 1 the following year.

I cant use the date zero as a reference as it is being used to rescheule the project and is roughly 24 weeks from the 1st March.

 

Any help would be appreciated.

Cheers

Stephen

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Progress Help

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Christine P 👤 Member for 17 years 1 month

Ive had a quick look for similar topics but cant find one and |Im probably missing a very obvious step here (Hope I can explain this ok).  I am progressing a programme as I always do on a weekly basis.  It is a new revision of an older porgramme, revised by someone else (who isnt around at the moment so I cant ask).

These are the steps I take to get my programme ready for progress inputting.

- I have added the progress line to the barchart. 

- Changed the progress entry period (Tools --> Options --> Progress entry period)

- Set the P

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