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Creating a project out of the origional project

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Hello; II am working on a schedule containing around 5000 Activities.Around 3000 Activities Are completed and others are in progress.My manager has asked that create a new schedule containing only the activities that are in progress or not started.No...

Sep 1, 2012

Data exported from P6 in Excel is in strange, unusable format?

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Hi, Whenever I export data from P6 in Excel format the data comes out in a strange format where everything has a "`" in front. For example, 1303FR001 comes out like `1303FR001. And I can't perform a Vlookup or other action as Excel doesn't seem to re...

Sep 2, 2012

How to remove the indent and outdent function in MSP

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Dear All, Is there a way to remove the outdent option while taking the print.My proejct manager want to show less gap in the task name column which is appearing because of the outdent option.I know there is option in P6 to remove this while we are ta...

Sep 2, 2012

P6 Version 8.2 vs Microsoft SQL database server 2005

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Hi everyone,I was working with P6 V6.1 with the Database Microsoft SQL server, now i have updated Primavera to Version 8.2. When i run the Primavera program the database is not supporting. The report comes as: The application and database versions do...

Sep 3, 2012

Creating Baseline in Primavera P6

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Good Morning everyone, I had a quiery in P6 releated to Baseline. 1. How to assign baseline? 2. How to maintain baseline? 3. How to do update progress in assigned baseline? 

Sep 3, 2012

Provide relationship wth another project in P6

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Hi Planner. I need to link some activities of my current project with another project. I added the Project ID in the Successor dialogue box and try to open it from there. It is not working. I never did it before could anybody help me about with simpl...

Sep 3, 2012

Budgeted Units: Location in time

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Hello, I have an activity which are currently statused as not started and is sitting on the data date. The activity has 100 Budeted Labor Units. It turns out that this activity was actually completed a while ago, so I 'retrospectively' assign the act...

Sep 4, 2012

Generating Reports

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Good Morning PP, Can anyone help me how to generate reports in Primavera P6 If i get step by step procedure how to generate reports will be very thankful. for Eg: 1. weekely Reports 2. Monthly Reports   Thank you, Regards, Rajesh.  

Sep 4, 2012

Activity Codes

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Can anyone tell me if I am perhaps doing something wrong. When I copy an existing project and have selected the 'Activities' check box the newly created copy does not have the codes ! I have had to use a global change into User_text2 and then edit th...

Sep 4, 2012

Problem with Update Progress

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Hello Planners, I had an issue with the update progress. When i do update progress as on 31st Aug 23:59 actuals should be applied to all the activity started before 31st Aug 23:59 but i am facing a problem with this no actuals are applied. Can anyone...

Sep 4, 2012

Primavera P6 Analytics High-Res Screen Grabs

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Hi Guys, We are often asked about Primavera P6 Analytics, what is it and what does it look like. So we taken over 20 high-res screen grabs to give you some idea of what it looks like. http://ow.ly/drJuM Emily

Sep 4, 2012

Activity relationships between current and baseline

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Hello Planners,one customer of mine is using a large number of baselines with his projects, more than ten actuallyhe says that, because he frequently restores and reassigns baselines to Primary/Second/Third baseline, Primavera P6 is displaying links ...

Sep 4, 2012

Late start date equal to the actual start date ????

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I have level of effort activities with resource assignments.I have noticed that LOE’s that are in progress have the Late start date set equal to the Actual start date. This causes remaining late work to show up before the data date on histograms.Is t...

Sep 4, 2012

Olympic Topics

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Hello Everyone A few Olympic based topics - none of them particularly PC - nevermind. The Irish synchorised diving team had a spat when Pat complained that Mick was always copying him. The reason why there are no deaf competitors in the paralympics i...

Sep 4, 2012

Date Format Option

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Dear All, I have recently upgraded from MSP 2003 TO  2007.In the Date format option I am trying to select the format of Mon 20/2/12,but i cannot find that option there wha is the reason... Please guide me

Sep 5, 2012

Work Column in Task Usage Sheet Showing Zero

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Hello Guys, I have finished adding activities and scheduling with my project.Now whne i want to see the work distribution in Task usage sheet it is showing as Zero What is the reason...   Please guide me ....

Sep 5, 2012

Creating S-Curves in MS Project 2010

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Hi I have recently upgraded to MS Project 2010 and the Analyse Time Scale Data tab doesn't exist. Is there another way to create S-Curves on Project % Complete Planned vs Actual

Sep 5, 2012