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Resource assignment in P6 V7 is not as assigned calendar hours

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Hi,I am preparing a program for a small job. The effective work hours per day is 7.5 and 6.5days per week. I have set the calendar for that which I have assigned to all my resources and activities as well. I have ticked the tab to use assigned calend...

Dec 1, 2012

Power Lines on Google Earth

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I work with construction of power lines and I´m using Google Earth to represent the progress of my projects, automatically, with a generator of KML files. Does any member have similar experience with this technique?

Dec 3, 2012

Question Regarding Cost Loading in Primavera P6 ?

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hi to all experts, I am working with a recovery schedule. Which has been progressed upto 23.50%. Now scope of my contract has been changed.before total project value was 50 millions.now after lots of change order it is 70 millions.& invoice already c...

Dec 3, 2012

Network Diagrams

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Fellow Astarians, How does one produce a Network diagram in Asta, can someone please enlighten me. Knid regards, Craig Adams

Dec 3, 2012

Longest path or Critical path of As built Schedule (Primavera)

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Dear All,I am new to PP blogs and require help from your expertise.I have to report to my Managment some sort of Delay Analysis & Lesson Learned by comparing Baseline and As-built Schedule. I had joined the project in mid of its life, so I have colle...

Dec 3, 2012

P6 nested filters

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Hi, I am struggling to create a nested filter with a mix of 'And' or 'Or' between each row. Can somebody please advise how can I change an individual row from 'And' to 'Or', or vice-versa? When I click the (All of the following) to change to (Any of ...

Dec 4, 2012

Workflows

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Hi,Does your tool have built-in worflows?Anna

Dec 4, 2012

Tracking progress in Spider

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 I have the following question regarding tracking of progress in Spider:I observe the following behavior:Once I have updated progress on some of the activities (once I have entered an actual data for some of the activities), after that I will get an ...

Dec 4, 2012

Create Gantt Chart and cash flow using excel with sample file

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I have created an excel sheet to draw up the Gantt chart and create cost loading based on working days.You simply select your week end and holidays, put the planned dates then everything will be calculated and drawn automatically. You all welcome to ...

Dec 4, 2012

Shutdown/Turnaround Planning training

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Hello, I used to work as Project Planner. Have been recently assigned to Maintenance team as TA planning engineer. I would like to attend the training first. Does anybody know a good training / provider for the Shutdown/Turnaround planning please? Re...

Dec 4, 2012

Existing practical project issues

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Guys   I am starting this thread that we can share from our experience:   I met an issue in my new project. By Specifications I should receive a P6 schedule (cost and resource loaded). I just received the general view pdf. and another view(pdf) that ...

Dec 4, 2012

About tracking and updating progress of a project

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Dear all, I'd like to know the right precedure of updating a schedule, Is the following steps of updating a schedule right or not? "Input actual progress data(including of actual start ,actual finish, remaining duration and so on )"----"apply actuals...

Dec 5, 2012

Wronge start / finish date

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I set the project calender to 12 Hrs/ Day 7 Day/weeks and also the admin user pereference to 12 Hrs / day and check all user to specify the number of hous for each time period . my problem is when I try to make - 6 hours lag for an activity it give m...

Dec 5, 2012

P6: Default layout at start of Primavera

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Hi all,daily I use P6 and I am here to ask a favour. I don't know what happened some days ago, but everytime when P6 starts, I display the same layout I used for an old project .I'd like to know how I can change this user preference/setting because I...

Dec 5, 2012

Histogram issues

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I have been asked to produce a histogram for a plan held in P6.  While I am normally quite happy to run histograms the particular plan I have been asked to do it for is not what I would call a "plan" its more a management resource tracker.  I cannot ...

Dec 5, 2012