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short term P6 license lease

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Hello all, I have a request for a short contract that would need P6 but the client wants me to provide the license. it's not something I normally have to do (as the clients normally have the sofware on an issued laptop) so I do not have a license in hand (and iirc they are about 3K Euro to buy then 1k Euro / year)

 

is there a service out there where I can rent access on a daily / weekly / monthly basis?

 

and thinking about it ... if not, would such a service interest you?

 

Cheers

 

James

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Duration Type of Fixed Units not working properly

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Hi All,

 

I am using Duration Type of Fixed Units for some activities. The Units are from the Cost Estimate. When I allocate a Resource to the Activity, the Duration changes accordingly to match the Resource Availability (12h/D).

 

So an activity with 120 hours as Units generates a Duration of 10 days when the Resource is assigned.



But when I add a second Resource ( the same Resource now on the activity twice), the Units double and the duration remains the same.

 

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Multiple import of risks to Primavera P6

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Dejan Kezic 👤 Member for 8 years 2 months
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Hi everyone,

Is there solution ti import (through Excel) risks to large number of activities in P6 schedule?

Similar to importing of activities and/or resources, I would like to define several different risks and then instead of using manual method in P6 to export file to Excel, then prepare it for importing by coping risks to different activities and return it through import.

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How is Lag Finish calculated?

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Morning all, I've got an activity whose predecessor has completed but in the predecessor tab it says 'lag finish' and it several days later pushing out a date artificially.  I can't seem to find any explanation as to how this is calculated.   Screen shot below of a similar item.  I've checked all preceeding activities and there are none outstanding and none suggesting the date as 6th March. 

 

Thanks in advance for any assistance. 

 

 

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Primavera SDK - ODBC Problem (MS Access link)

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For years now we've been using an MS Access database to upload Actual Labour units across a portfolio of projects, but recently this has failed due to an ODBC error (likely relating to recent server updates).

When I open ODBC Data Source Administrator within Windows, the Primavera SDK System DSN appears in list but is marked with a comment "The Driver of this 32-bit System DSN does not exist, It can only be removed".

Does anyone know a way to resolve? 

Thanks!

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3rd party tools for P6 - which are good for printing resource data, and what does it provide?

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John Reeves 👤 Member for 13 years 1 month
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3rd party tools for P6 - which are good for printing resource data, and what does it provide?  What is the best report native to P6?  I just want to print how many workers of each trade per week.  Data and graph would be nice.

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Would everyone here use a 3/1 data date for February progress?

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John Reeves 👤 Member for 13 years 1 month
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Would everyone here use a 3/1 data date for February progress? (aside from some stated date like the 15th etc.) - this way it would match Feb. cost data etc., I always heard that the data date line was like 8am or whatever starting time.  I assume in theory that could be changed to 5pm or whatever ending time but I have never heard of anyone doing that.  

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Resource Assignment table copy and paste in Excel

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Hi,

I'm trying to copy the resource assignment table and paste it in Excel.

I have divided the labor units by the number of units per period in order to show the number of resources required.

Meanwhile, when pasting in Excel, the labor units are pasted instead of the number of resource.

It seems to copy the database itself instead of what is displayed.

Does anyone know how to extract the number of resources from the resource assignment table?

Thanks 

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How to create a WBS UDF that can be displayed at Activity level, same as WBS Category can be displayed.

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Hello Everyone,

 

I am wondering how to create a WBS UDF that can be displayed at Activity level, same as WBS Category can be displayed and grouped at Activity Layouts as a column.

Or a WBS code that can be displayed and grouped by at Activity level.

 

Thanks,

 

Rod

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In P6, how to show a milestone's date to reflect the earliest start date of the group predecessors' activities rather than total

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Dear All,

In P6, how to show a milestone's date to reflect the earliest start date of the group predecessors' activities rather than total float driving from the group predecessors' activities.

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