How to create a 2wk look ahead schedule in P6

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L P6 👤 Member for 15 years 4 months

Hi all,

I am still finding my way around P6 and would like to know if anyone can giuve me a step by step outline of how to create a a 2wk look ahead filter. I am familair with creating filters but have never done one for a look ahead.My two main questions are:

  1. Do I use the "Earliest start date"  and "Latest finish dates" instead of "Start" and "Fininsh"?
  2. I aslo want to include all work that is still in progress during the lookahead period regardless of when it starts or will finsh. Is this good practice to include this criteria as part of a look ahead schedule and if yes, how would I do that in combination with the dates filter in question 1 above?

Thanking ou in advance,

LP6

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Zoltan Palffy 👤 Member for 16 years 10 months

Hiahab all you did was copy mine

use the start and fiinsh dates do not use early and late 

Display all rows            ParameterIs               Value                HighValue 

Where               Start is within range of           DD                    DD+2W 

Or                     Finish is within range of         DD                    DD+2W 

Or                Activity Status                           equals                 In Progress

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Habib Hajjaji 👤 Member for 9 years

Why we are using late Finish in this below Filter?????

Where Early Start is within range of DD DD+2W
  Or Late  Finish is within range of DD DD+2W
  Or Activity Status equals In Progress

 

In My Opinion below filter is enough.

Where Early Start is within range of DD DD+2W
          
  Or Activity Status equals In Progress
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Zoltan Palffy 👤 Member for 16 years 10 months

this shoud do it 

Display all rows Parameter Is Value High Value
  Where Early Start is within range of DD DD+2W
  Or Late Finish is within range of DD DD+2W
  Or Activity Status equals In Progress
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mohamed ezat 👤 Member for 12 years 6 months

hiiii  all 

  concerning  schedule  update   i'm   facing  problem  at   cost  loaded  

after  entering  the  actual  percentges  for   activities   i  found   the  cash flow  values  for  baseline   changed  and  i'm  sure  that  i  didn't  change  the  dates  for  baseline  

i  appeared  the baseline   separated  and  checked   the  values  of  cash flow   i noted  that it  became  true    but  after  assigning  the baseline   to  my  updated schedule   the   cash flow values   are  changing 

 

 

plz if  help  if  you  can  and  tell  me  what is the reason 

thanks

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L P6 👤 Member for 15 years 4 months

Irfan,

 Thanks for commenting. Yes, your suggestion is certainly helpful especially using the "is within range" term.

 

I aslo wanted to know if it was necessary to aslo incluse a similar "where" clasue for the Finish date and for activities "in progress". I read on another forum that a look ahead schedule should show:

  • all things starting within the look ahead period
  • and finishing within the look ahead period,
  • as well as all things that are in progress withign the look ahead period.

Do others agree with the above? If  meeting all three criteria is the correct protocool would the following filter be suitable?

 

Display all rows Parameter Is Value High Value
  Where Start is within range of DD DD+2W
  Or Finish is within range of DD DD+2W
  Or Activity Status equals In Progress   

Thanks all,

Regards,

LP6

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Irfan Khan 👤 Member for 16 years 10 months

Hi,

 

In Primavera P6 ver. 7 have built in filter of Two Week Look Ached Schedule.

If you want to make in manually so here is the procedure of Two Week Look Ahead Sche.

Go to in Filter > Click New > Give a title of your filer > than chek the perameters like this < Where = Start > in within range of > Value = DD > High Value = DD+2W.

 

Hope this ill help u.

 

regards

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