Oracle Primavera - PM6

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P6 PPM Upgrade Questions

I'm looking to update 17.12 to 21.12 but concerned about losing the license since I have no idea where it's stored - it's a bit opaque in comparison to the SSO software I'm used to. It's been years since I installed it as well so can't even remember if I was greeted with a prompt asking for license information?

I've downloaded the 21.12 installer from Oracle Software Delivery Cloud (I tried my old account but cannot get in, nor is it sending any password reset emails) so I just created another account. 

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Managing P6 updates with partner companies

Are there any good references on how to manage on master schedule where a few partner companies have thier own sections of the master WBS which they create, maintain and update. I see two possible options; I don't think updating by Excel would be practical as the partners will be updating and using thier schedule during the month.

 

1. We work in one EPC on a shared cloud server, with seperate projects and sync our updates and processes. The Master schedule would include all of the sub projects.

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How to display individual resource assignments in Activity View Gantt chart

Hi Everyone,

 

Has anyone found a way to display individual resource assignments in Activity View Gantt chart?

 

I have Group & Sort as by Resource, but activities that have multiple resources are grouped together as if they were a single resource. Is it possible to Group the individual assignments in the Activity Tab?

 

Rod

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Updating and changes in data date

Hi

 

I have been told that when you are doing a monthly update, you shouldn't " schedule" ( F9, I mean) in the middle of update. and you should do all the actualizing and updating and after finishing that, you can " schedule" the project to the new data date , 1st day of next month.

 

I want to know the reason.

 

What happens if I press F9 in the middle of the updating and actualizing.

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Critical Path activities extension.

There is a convention in our company that we don't extend the duration of an activity which is on critical path, to capture the activities which have caused the delay in the program in a better way.

 

We have a WBS and under that WBS (which is named Change Management) we add those extension of that.

 

So, basically, if activity A with a duration of 20 days is placed on CPM and is  going to be finished in 25 days,we are going to create another activity named A+ with a duration of 5 days.

 

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Deleting an activity

Hello guys;

I am a new user of P6 and I may be asking a lot of questions from now on and I hope noone gets bothered.

 

I have a question regarding deleting an activity.

 

I magin the program is almost ready and there are some links between activities, and the PM wants me to delete one activity( imagine it has been agreed and signed off).

Should I just delete the activity? 

When is it the good time to use " dissolve" option on the software?

 

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Is there a technical name for delay caused by not being able to work as scheduled? for example if something is FS instead of SS?

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John Reeves 👤 Member for 13 years 1 month

Is there a technical name for delay caused by not being able to work as scheduled? for example if something is FS instead of SS? (for example thought could start steel same time as concrete but had to wait until done.)  "Out of Sequence Delay" or "Logic Error Delay" or "Planning Delay"?

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Import of Activities/WBS

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Kannan CP 👤 Member for 18 years

I created a WBS in P6 (8.3 VERSION) exported to a spread sheet as activities settings. then copied the list of activities from another excel file to this spread sheet and specify the WBS name and WBS code for each acvtivity.

While importing it back to P6, i could see all the activities, but not arranged under any specific WBS as above (but only under main Project WBS)

Is there any option to import the WBS also for the activities.

 

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