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Where does P6 store the project files?

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In which folder are the projects (samples or working files) stored? For example, in P3 my understanding is that these project files were stored under the Projects folder within the P3Win directory. In P6, where are the project files stored?

Nov 25, 2013

Creating reports

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Greetings all. I’m a new user of P6 rev7 and am having a challenge which I hope someone will help me with please. I would like to create a report to see resources man-hours, for a specific time period, of only the projects I have open. But, for some ...

Nov 26, 2013

Project Controls – A Definition

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The Guild of Project Controls is in formation, and most people have a view of what is involved in ‘project controls’ but what is the ‘dictionary’ definition of ‘project controls’?  To answer this question, my proposed definition for ‘project controls...

Nov 26, 2013

Where is all the Jobs???

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I havent been on PP for a while, so I was shocked to see only 10 jobs posted, what has happened to PP? you use to be buzing with work. Please dont come with the quiet market excuse as other sites have several vacancies per day, are you steering away ...

Nov 26, 2013

P6 Rel 6.2.1 Resource Assignments

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I am assigning several resources to the same activity with budgeted quantities, progress % and remaining hours to complete.I then need to view each of these resource assignments using the "resource usage profile" view so I can see the bars showing th...

Nov 26, 2013

Filters

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I am trying ti establish a filter for hiding the activities in a schedule that are 100%.That is easy.My schedule is broken down by 4 areas.As part of that filter, I still need to show all activities (including the ones that are 100% complete) in 1 of...

Nov 26, 2013

Effect of NLT constraint

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Hi,I was playing with priorities and found the following effect, which I can’t logically explain.Just wondering whether it “works as designed” and id "yes", then what is the reason for it?Effect descriptionRule 1. Any activity, which has in it’s succ...

Nov 27, 2013

Updating Programme

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Hi,I have encountered people (planners & non planners) with 2 schools of thoughts when it comes to updating programme. 1) First Type (Static type) " The baseline programme logic and relationship is fixed, you can't change when updating."" Update the ...

Nov 27, 2013

Spreading High Level Costs Over Multiple Activities

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I'm not sure if this is possible (I've not come across it in other software) but I live in hope so I thought I'd ask people who are more knowledgable than I am with Asta....What I would like to know is whether the following scenario is possible in Po...

Nov 27, 2013

duration decimal

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Dear Mike/All ,      How to make duration in round figure? I have duration column in days. In which few duration  are showing  as 1d 30min and 2d 2h. I need to change these durations in round figure as 1d and 2d in the whole column. How to do that? A...

Nov 27, 2013

Multiple Calendars

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What should I do if I want to set many calendars with different start time and finish time for each day and also different working days e.g.  Calendar A start from Monday to Saturday from 8:00a.m. to 18:00 , Calendar B start from Monday to Friday fro...

Nov 28, 2013

Activity and phase priority rules

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 Rafael, Vladimir,I am still experimenting with priorities and if I don’t take into account the unusual effect of the NLT contains on priorities discussed in a separate thread, I find that when it comes to activity priorities, everything is quite log...

Nov 28, 2013

Planning qualifications

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Hi Guys, I was just wondering if anyone can help with the following problem. I am a relatively inexperienced planning engineer (3-4 years experience). I am looking to improve my knowledge by completing some formal qualifications within our expertise....

Nov 29, 2013

Which smart features of P3 do you miss?

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I have been using P6 since 2008 but I still miss some smart features of P3.  My favorite two is below. What is yours?- Floating successor, predessor and recources windows.- Smart keyboard shortcut keys which lets you navigate, input and check the dat...

Nov 29, 2013

Which smart features of P3 do you miss?

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I have been using P6 since 2008 but I still miss some smart features of P3.  My favorite two is below. What is yours?- Floating successor, predessor and recources windows.- Smart keyboard shortcut keys which lets you navigate, input and check the dat...

Nov 29, 2013

Requirements to develop an EPC schedule

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What are the requirements to develop (from scratch) a level 3 project schedule for the following phases? - Engineering - Procurement - Construction Thanks,

Nov 29, 2013

can i change 1 word within multiple activity names?

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hi all   i have been given a plan to run that i didnt build myself and the plan has a few errors, there is around 200 tasks that are identifying the wrong peice of equipment were working on so rather than change each 1 individually i was wondering if...

Nov 30, 2013