Next Move
Forum TopicHi All Just to let you know that I am off to Qatar next month to work as a Delay Analyst & Claims Director with Systech. Best regards Mike Testro
Jan 21, 2013
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The Scheduling Conundrum
BlogThe scheduling conundrum is simple:We know effective scheduling makes a significant difference to project success and we know what effective scheduling looks like but in most projects, the schedule is ignored, bad scheduling practice is the norm and ...
Jan 22, 2013
My question regarding cost point of view?
Forum TopicI would like to know or any definition as follows:1 – Dry Cost2 – Mark up3 – Benefit of Profit4 – Selling CostBecause I joined a meeting before couple of week there they were discussing on these topics so in this regard I would like to clear my conc...
Jan 22, 2013
How to track,monitor road project without entering resources in MSP Program?
Forum TopicAs we are from client side, EPC has submitted a MSP program without resources allocation. Is it possible to monitor and track the progress in his given schedule?
Jan 22, 2013
problems restoring .xer in P6 7.0 that was saved from ver.8.2
Forum TopicHi guys,First post here and I'm looking for help. Contractor is using ver.8.2. We are using 7.0. Contractor saved an .xer file in 7.0 format using 8.2. On the accompanying hardcopy schedule, two activities have actual dates before the data date(on...
Jan 22, 2013
Watermarking Programme Draft
Forum TopicI am currently using P6 version 8.2 can you watermark prints with ''DRAFT'' the only way i can think of doing this is by printing a PDF and altering is using Adobe reader. Hope someone can help Thanks.
Jan 23, 2013
Financial Reporting Periods
Forum TopicCan anyone offer some advice, I have a client that has a different reporting period. Can you set up diiferent periods for different projects?
Jan 23, 2013
Financial Reporting Periods
Forum TopicCan anyone offer some advice, I have a client that has a different reporting period. Can you set up diiferent periods for different projects?
Jan 23, 2013
**URGENT** P6 6.2 Calandar Issues
Forum TopicHi Everybody,I have an urgent tender programme I must finish ASAP and my calandar won't calculate correctly.My base calendar is set at 8hr/day 5 days a week, all my activities that use this calendar are fine (a day = a day)But when i try to use a 7hr...
Jan 23, 2013
Primavera P6
Forum TopicHi allApologies if am in the wrong forum but I've just joined PP and am looking for advice on the best value way of training in Primavera P6. I'm expecting to use it in the construction/tranportation sectors. Many Thanks Gary
Jan 23, 2013
Consecutive postings
Forum TopicIs it possible to setup the postings so that whenever a PP member attempts to enter consecutive postings within a certain time frame (say 20 minutes) the system will issue a warning it might be a duplicate and not accept the second until a response b...
Jan 23, 2013
Primavera P6
Forum TopicHi allApologies if am in the wrong forum but I've just joined PP and am looking for advice on the best value way of training in Primavera P6. I'm expecting to use it in the construction/tranportation sectors. Many Thanks Gary
Jan 24, 2013
Publishing in EPM
Forum TopicHi, new to this site and fairly new to planning so please forgive. I want to run some cost&resource profiled from MSP using the data in EPM. I know i need to publish the plan to run this data but what wil happen to the version of the same plan saved ...
Jan 24, 2013
S-Curve and Histogram in one XEL sheet..
Forum TopicDear All Planners, How I can put both S-Curve and Histogram in one XEL sheet? What are the functions I have to follow? Thank you, HANSON
Jan 24, 2013
"Necking" Bars on Gantt Chart - MSP2007
Forum TopicHi, Apologies if this has been covered before. I'm trying to show a task bar "necked" where there is no working time. In this case, I have a number of tasks that have a calendar that only allows work to take place between April and October, so I wa...
Jan 24, 2013
Multiple Databases
Forum TopicHas anyone any experience of using multiple databases? I am assuming that once you have set up an additional database then all you do is drop down to the correct database when you log on?The "orignal" database is kept intact?Neil
Jan 24, 2013
New Features in Spider - Perform Automatically, Consider Into Scheduling
Forum TopicVladimir,I have downloaded the new release of spider, very eager to try the features, especially the new milestones wich should not be considered into project scheduling. Unfortunetely I haven't been able to get them to work. There is also the posibi...
Jan 24, 2013
Assigning email address to use project issue function
Forum TopicHope someone can help, I am using P6 Version 8.2, within the project issue function i am trying to send out emails according to the issues raised within the programme, it currently says i have no return email address setup. Could somebody advise on...
Jan 25, 2013
5 Ways To Deal With Stakeholders Who Don’t Listen
Forum TopicHi Guys, Here's an article on 5 ways to deal with stakeholders who don’t listen http://ow.ly/h7Cga I hope you like it. Emily
Jan 25, 2013
Baseline variance problem
Forum TopicI am getting primary baseline variance even though there is no baseline set and the current programme is the primary baseline. I am doing delay analysis and have several templates copied from submitted programmes and the templates are used for analys...
Jan 25, 2013