Substantial Completion Date Change

Currently I'm working on a project where I review a subcontractor's P6 schedule and implement their update when I submit mine to the client. When I import their project into my machine, I hit re-calculate and their Substantial Completion date changes by a day from what they report. I do not make any changes to their schedule. I simply import and recalculate. All other dates remain the same except for a few other high level milestones which in all cases move up a day. Any ideas to why this happens?  Their schedule does have multiple calendars, some that are global and others that are project. I was wondering if maybe the issue is in the global calendars but I did a fresh import into another machine that did not have existing global calendars and the same issue arose.  Any ideas will be much appreciated. Thanks,

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Zoltan Palffy 👤 Member for 16 years 10 months

so you verified from the sub what their SC date was showing in their schedule you did this how via emial, pdf file, or telephone ?

is this the first time that this has happened ?

1. My first impression is that the default global calendars are different and this is what is throwing you off. Check this first. 

it is impossible for the other marchine NOT to have a default global calendar one calendar has to be defined as the default global calendar. Whether the project uses the default global calendar is a different story.

2. also during the importing process make sure to modify the import options and under action choose insert new

also go

Admin

Admin Preferences

click on the Time Periods tab and make sure thay match the subs

40

172

2000

are the defaults 

 

3. Go to tools schedule 

click the options tab 

make sure that you are using the same setting for calcuate start to start lag from

 

4. Go to tools schedule

clikc the options tab

at the bottom where it says Calendar for scheduling Relationship lag make sure that you are using the make setting as the sub.

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