Original duration changes

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Vijay N.K. 👤 Member for 16 years 1 month

Dear all,


            
I make one base program and it was scheduled without resources and cost loading. Then I assigned one resource to all the activities and then export it to excel (export type: Resource assigment) and added budgeted units for all activities. Then same was imported to P6.7 and its showing, what I needed (i.e. budgeted labor units), but while scheduling there are changes in original duration.


Please clarify it as soon as possible.

 


Regards
Vijay

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thaer ghanim 👤 Member for 14 years 8 months

 

Hi

Before you Export the resource assignment try to add Duration type colum ,so this colum  you will have in Excel sheet also ,after that you make in Excel sheet( Duration Type:Fixed Duration & Units).after you add your resouce and cost ,import the excel sheet to primavera again

 

you can also check the duration type from activity details  duration type (choose fixed duration and unit )

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kamesh avasarala 👤 Member for 15 years 7 months

after import befor scheduling see that it is in fixed duration . that is only answer

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thaer ghanim 👤 Member for 14 years 8 months

Hi

Before you Export the resource assignment try to add Duration type colum ,so this colum  you will have in Excel sheet also ,after that you make in Excel sheet( Duration Type:Fixed Duration & Units).after you add your resouce and cost ,import the excel sheet to primavera again

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thaer ghanim 👤 Member for 14 years 8 months

Hi

Before you Export the resource assignment try to add Duration type colum ,so this colum  you will have in Excel sheet also ,after that you make in Excel sheet( Duration Type:Fixed Duration & Units).after you add your resouce and cost ,import the excel sheet to primavera again

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Kannan CP 👤 Member for 17 years 11 months

Hi Vijay,

Apply "Fixed Duration & Units" for the duration type and try. This may solve the issue.

 

Kannan

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Vijay N.K. 👤 Member for 16 years 1 month

Hai all thanks for your reply. I tried but same problem occurs again.

 

Regards

Vijay

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Shah. HB 👤 Member for 17 years 6 months

Hi Vijay N.K.

 

Check the duration type in activity details tab,care must be taken while loading resource and selection of duration type

 

Regards

Shahul

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Rafael Davila 👤 Member for 22 years 3 months

From: http://ronwinterconsulting.com/Understanding_P6_Dates.pdf

The user can input a planned finish to overwrite the calculated planned finish. This change will also automatically change the original duration of the activity and there is no warning to the user.

If the activity is in progress, then planned start is set equal to actual start. Planned finish is calculated by adding the original duration to the planned start as shown in Figure 16 below. The user can input a planned finish to overwrite the calculated planned finish. Once again, this change will also automatically change the original duration of the activity and there is no warning to the user.

Original duration in plain English means a duration that shall be fixed once and thereafter never changed, it might not be as expected but this does not invalidate the date calculations by P6.

Suggest once the baseline is finished create a user defined filed and with global change assign the Baseline Original Durations  to this field. Then in the future you will be able to compare values without the need to use the original baseline as a reference as it will always be available no matter what baselines you are comparing to.

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