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Hide project costs when exporting

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Hello Planners,Using P6R7, I would like to hide the cost fields when exporting a project to XER file, or make sure that the other users who open my project in a multi-user config will not be able to read the Price/Unit, Budgeted Cost, ...Thanks for y...

Aug 27, 2012

Deltek Sold!

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Deltek has been acquired by Thoma Bravo for $1.1 Billion or $13 per share cash. Read more here http://ow.ly/dfK7T

Aug 27, 2012

Exporting to Excell

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Im trying to create a more visual appealing resource usage line graph in excel.  I have four projects open and resources (crews) working on various activities.  I want to be able to export all of the data to a spreadsheet then create a lin graph.  I ...

Aug 27, 2012

Moving EPS Nodes

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Hi all,We have a discussion here about who moved a specific EPS node in P6 from its original location to a wrong place... Company Admin refers to Audit table which shows an Update on the node by project superuser and his interpretation is that update...

Aug 28, 2012

Problem with Multiple Calendars and Float

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Study the following activity table and Gant chart, all the necessary information should be there. The calendar for activity A has continuous working days. The calendar for activities B and C is for a 10 days on 4 days off roster.[[wysiwyg_imageupload...

Aug 28, 2012

Activities picking non working time of calendar while updating

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Hello Planners, I got a problem here. Lemme explain. While updating the activities and applying actual dates the activities pick up the non working time in calendar.Taking an activity A which has a duration of one day. I tried to apply the actual sta...

Aug 28, 2012

Non Working Days Shading Colour

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I have Primavera 6.0, when viewing my Gant charts the shaded strips representing time off are a very light shade of grey and are sometimes difficult to see.Is there any way of changing the colour or making them darker?

Aug 28, 2012

Units (Work) without Resources

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I've noticed that in both P6 and MSP, values for Units (Work) are generated by assigning a Resource. It's also possible to it is possible to directly enter a value for Units (Work) without assigning a Resource. The latter method seems to behave much ...

Aug 29, 2012

Imoprting MS project 2010 into Primavera Risk Analysis

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Hi all, I have discovered an issue while importing MSP files into PRA.This arises when the MSP file contains tasks which are already underway i.e started before the import date.PRA does not carry through this date from project but uses a later date (...

Aug 29, 2012

Lag - Column View

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hi.does anyone know if there is a way to show activities that contain lags? Filter or have a Column that shows a check box or something?right now, i have to have the Relationships tab shown and arrow down every activity.thanks,Andre

Aug 29, 2012

How to install Primavera P6

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Hello Everyone, I want to install Primavera P6 on my desktop and want to share with other 5 desktop can anyone help me on this ?

Aug 30, 2012

program links

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why allways the client is not satisfied with program links.the links between activities ,shop drawins and coordination drwings the program become complicated for MEP activities and civil can any body help me with his experience

Aug 30, 2012

Free Ebook - How to Install Oracle Primavera P6 Professional

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Hi Guys, Here are step by step instructions showing how to Install Oracle Primavera P6 Professional for those who might need a little help installing the software in a standalone configuration. While it’s mostly straightforward to do, having a cheat ...

Aug 30, 2012

Cumulative baseline work

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Hi,I am new at this forum and I hope that you guys can help me out.I want to creata a column, custom field in MSP 2010 that contains baseline work cumulative from the start of the project all the way to the current status date. Can not find this func...

Aug 30, 2012

WBS: at which level should I put the E-P-C

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Hello guys, I'm currently developing the WBS concept, and generally the project has this EPC (Engineering Procurement and Construction) components under it's WBS. My question is at which level should I put the E-P-C ? following are 2 options that I'm...

Aug 31, 2012

Identifing Duplicate Activities.

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I am not sure how it happened, but after importing mulitple xer into my master schedule I have hundreds of duplicate actvities. I need to identify or delete these activities. Any suggestions would be helpfull, going thru the schedule day by day could...

Aug 31, 2012

Import Export numbers as text

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There is something I am not doing right when I try to convert numbers in Excel to text to match the export format from P6 8.2.  My situation: Trying to copy and paste data from an Excel Pivot Table to an exported P6 file.  I am trying to populate fie...

Aug 31, 2012

Cost Data no Importing Properly

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Contractor has submitted an updated schedule and the cost data (Budget at Completion or Budgeted Cost) for newly added activities is importing incorrectly. The contractor sent me a screenshot of his activities and I can see the correct costs. Yet whe...

Aug 31, 2012