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Integrating PM6 Schedule with a Claims Management Studio App -CMS

Hi

Anyone here uses a bespoke solution for CMS that integrateswith PM6 for monitoring Forensic Delay events and utilzing the dashboards in the CMS.

As Delay Events can be addressed in PM6 a couple of vendors selling a CMS have reached out to us with a convincing sales pitch why using a bespoke CMS for Delay event is more beneficial.

One CMS we looked at was https://www.primabi.com/product/cms 

Also does anyknow if any company outsources this service?

regards

Guss

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Merging projects - can you have different project codes and different calendars?

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John Reeves 👤 Member for 13 years 1 month

Merging projects - can you have different project codes and different calendars?  My guess is that you have to have the same project codes with the same lengths or you have to make them match before every clean up.  My guess is that it is better to have different calendars because you cannot force two different contractors to use the same.  If they are both name 5 week calendar will P6 add the project name?  or do you have to before import?  Would a resource field have to be the same length or name?  or cost?

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Finding Baselines attached to projects within an EPS

When you make a project a baseline to another project it disappears from the EPS until it is restored. Is it possible to view all of the project that are currently baselines (and so not in the EPS), without going into every project to find them.

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Combining 6 projects = combine or make subprojects - what is a must?

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Combining 6 projects = combine or make subprojects - what is a must?  In a perfect world they all use thesame WBS and Code Structure.  But they won't, can you use different activity codes if you use sub-projects?  Can the id's be the same?  A mandatory structure was not in specs so it will like herding buffalo, but what is minimum must I push?  Would you drag them all into one schedule with Project Code or make them sub-projects?  Any good references out there to do this?

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P6 CPM vs SOV vs 99% vs Punchlist Items...

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John Reeves 👤 Member for 13 years 1 month

For those of you that deal with the Schedule of Values vs CPM schedule connection: I have been on project where the CM/owners leave items at 99% to make sure punchlist items are corrected...- that skews the schedule when items are essentially 100% complete but have to leave at 99%.  Do you always have Punchlist Item on the SOV?  Any SOV tips for easy comparison to the CPM?  (or submittal logs which is a can of worms vs schedule)

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Schedule date calcs in Excel

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John Reeves 👤 Member for 13 years 1 month

So to calc a completion date in excel that includes the NTP date itself is @sum((A1+A2)-1) because excel does not count the NTP date in that formula.  With a A1 being the NTP date and A2 being that Calendar Days.  Are there any other, or different formulas you use to quickly calc dates in excel. (I see date off by 1 all the time.)

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How to send or receive an XER without sending or getting extra codes, calendars, etc from a large system?

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How to send or receive an XER without sending or getting extra codes, calendars, etc from a large system?  I know that if you use something of other than an xer you have more control but I am trying to keep it simple.  From what I recall you CANNOT control what you send but they can select options in the import.  But if you are importing a schedule that has no outside the schedule links could you juse use "keep existing" on every item - wouldn't activity changes still come through?  Most people do not "update an existing schedule with an xer they import a new version of

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Issue with future stored period performance - one for the tech heads!

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John Sims 👤 Member for 10 years

Hi All,

 

We have been asked to change our financial periods for 2022 in P6 V17.12, when we try and do this we get an error saying that some actuals have been stored in these periods, this has obviously been done in error.

I have scanned the projects and found some of the actuals within the projects, and put these in to the correct periods in 2021, is there a report i can run to make sure i have captured everything in the database including baselines that are attached to projects?

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Reporting from many projects from the EPS

Hello,

I'm trying to produce reports for a group of unrelated schedules. I am using P6 Pro v20. Example provide a list of project names, start date and end date and % complete of all projects in the EPS by project type. Maybe pick out a few milestones with actual and baseline values and would only want to look at the cetrain versons e.g. current version and baseline of each schedule. If I can pull the data into a CSV file and create the reports outside P6 it would be better still.

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