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Best Practice

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Hi, I'm using Primavera P6, and I've attended beginners course and read most of Harris' Project planning and control using Primavera P6...   I find the book very usefull, but I miss the best practice discussions. Anyone read anything good or know of ...

Dec 5, 2012

Renumbering activity ID's

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Dear Planners I'm trying to renumber all of the activity ID's in a plan I've copied from a previous project. I want the numbers to run sequentially through the various WBS in this new version but they appear to be renumbering to the same sequence as ...

Dec 5, 2012

Transfer Activity Codes from other Project

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In P3, user can transfer Activity Codes from other Project in the Activity Code Dialog Box.  Can someone tell me how to do the same in P6.  I can't find the option to do that.  Thanks a lot. Regards,Eric Chou

Dec 6, 2012

Basic Principles of Delay Analysis

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Hi All I am about to organise a print run of the training module "Basic Principles of Delay Analysis" from the original Planning Academy website. Depending on demand the book can be purchased at £25.00 plus post and packing. Please let me know by pri...

Dec 6, 2012

Attachment - Text

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Dear PP,Hello everyone!Can anybody help me why text attachment is not showing in version 8.1. After typing my comments on the dialog box and press OK nothing will show up.However I can show and add Curtain attachment. Thanks in advance,Chris

Dec 6, 2012

EXPERTS - Internal linkage within activities.

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Hi thereI have one quick questin for you guys that came up to my mind.An activity in a project has its respective activity in the baseline. Most likely the Activity ID for the activity in the project will be the same for the same activity in the base...

Dec 6, 2012

VALUE ENGINEERING

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Hi All,Does anybody experience "value engineering" activity in the schedule?How would it affect to your schedule, concept or ideas?Thanks in advance!

Dec 6, 2012

Problems Hiding Time within Start & Finish Column in MS Project 2007

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I am looking for help with hiding the time within my start and finish column of my schedule. This schedule is being planned in hours on a 24/7 calander (Offshore Installation Schedule) and currently my start and finish columns show the date and time ...

Dec 6, 2012

My Project Is Making No Progress!

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I had a situation recently where a client stated that despite his people working as fast and seemingly efficiently as they could, he was seeing next to no progress reflected in his performance reporting, his end date was pushing out, his efficiency w...

Dec 7, 2012

Reviewing Incoming Claims

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Hi All When reviewing an incoming claim at a table surrounded with potential clients I have often said something like: (Spock Voice) "Its a claim Jim - but not as we know it" "It reminds me of an Andersen Consulting document - Hans Christian that is"...

Dec 7, 2012

P6 updates

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Activity dates will not automatically change / update when i enter predecessors into the p6 plan.  Any advise please Thanks

Dec 7, 2012

P6.2 (takes sometime to open)

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Hi Everyone,I have encountered a recent problem in P6.2 and it seems very unusual for me. Even our IT team althought he works on my PC via (team viewer) having a hard time to solve my problem. About log in or user name and password its working but it...

Dec 7, 2012

planning

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hello,i am new to planning, please give me the definition for constraint. 

Dec 8, 2012

Work description planning production process

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 Hello, I'm looking for examples of production planning procedures (for machine building). Does anyone know where I can find flowcharts or discriptions and especially the development of tasks and responsibilities of persons involved (departments)? I ...

Dec 8, 2012

import from excel to PP

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Hi1-is it possible to import data from excel to powerproject, i am not speaking about copy and past.2- when you import a baseline to the current project, how the two programs are related, are they linked using the activity id ? regardsmimoune

Dec 8, 2012

Creative Construction

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Guys,I do not know whether it is allowed or not. (If not than please remove this thread from the forum)We are organizing a conference on construction management, and as the chair of the organizing comittee, I'd like to devote a couple of sessions to ...

Dec 10, 2012

Compare two projects

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Hi everyone, I have to compare budgets of two different projects (kinda similar though), that were already completed. I have the budgeted cost and actual costs for both. So can I use CPI's to compare them?  Thanks!

Dec 10, 2012

P3 to P6 Schedule Conversion/No Driving Relationships

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Guys,   I have a schedule prepared in P3 and then later on I converted it to P6 as required by our consultant. After succesfull import to P6, I noticed that some of the activities have no DRIVING PREDECESSORS/SUCCESSORS. As a result, the start and/or...

Dec 10, 2012