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Export MSP to Primavera P6.0

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Hi Experts,  I have prepared the schedule in MSP with Activity IDs in Text1 of the MSP user field. Also loaded the resources in the MSP. Now I need to export it in Primavera 6.0. When I am exporting it is showing failure message. Come for help. Thank...

Dec 22, 2013

American Contractor - no resource planning allowed

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In recent years, if not decades some of our institutions have taken the initiative to prohibit the Contractor to plan.  Some associations have issued their own so called Recommended Practice or Good Practice and use their name to promote and justify ...

Dec 22, 2013

Oracle Primavera P6 eBooks For $5

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Hi Guys,We reviewed a couple of Primavera P6 books a while back and now the publishers are offering them for only $5 between the 19th December 2013 to 3rd January 2014. You can learn more here http://ow.ly/rZDLbMerry Christmas.Emily

Dec 22, 2013

Professionalizing Project Management

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Read a good ebook on this subject: Professionalizing Project Management by Alex Rude, available via: www.lajafu.com/alexrude.Any other recommendations on this subject? Thx!

Dec 22, 2013

% Progress Display Different in Jagged View

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Hi,I have noticed that my Planned and Actual % complete totals on the summary bars change when I view my project in 'Jagged View'Normal view shows 8.84%Jagged View shows 9.12% Does anyone know what is causing this?Thanks in advanceTom Morgan

Dec 23, 2013

High Rise Tower - Sample Primavera schedule

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Dear all,Greetings! Can anybody help me by sending "High Rise Tower - Project Schedule Sample" in Primavera - PM6 of any completed or ongoing project. This will help me in creating new project schedule of 60 storey including WBS, Activities, Resource...

Dec 23, 2013

P6 Resource Curves

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The Enterprise menu lists a number of cost curves (bell shaped, front end loaded, back end loaded etc..)How do I assign a cost curve to an activity or resource for a specific activity?  Any help is much appreciated. Dave

Dec 23, 2013

Earned Value & Unit Percent Complete Type

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Dear Professionals;Please advise me if my understanding correct or notif we use a unit percent complete as a percent complete type and entering the actual units after progressed schedule and use set calculation of performance percent complete from th...

Dec 24, 2013

Time Unit --- HELP

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Planners, When I run the schedule, all activities are showing time for example: 27-Dec-2013 06:00Am to 29-Dec-2013 07:00Am. Whereas I have set 11hours work per day. I have even checked my user preferences, everything seems okay but this time i am una...

Dec 25, 2013

Values Stacked Histogram Wrong

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Hi all,Hope someone can get me out of my infinite loop I'm stuck in (i.e looking at the screen, be angry that P6 is not doing what it supposed to do, looking at the screen, etc. etc) When I look at the graph in the resource usage profile for a partic...

Dec 26, 2013

Planning Engineer Salary- Check if your salary is fair or not

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Hi all,I have prepared a good database for Planning Engineers salaries as per years of experience and country. So far about 300 planning engineer added their salaries throughout the salary survey.I invite you all to see what is the average planning e...

Dec 27, 2013

Admin Categories

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Good Day Everyone,I am new here and i can only say this is the best forum i have seen for a while.Can any one please explain the effects of the : Baseline type and Unit of Measure tabs in the Admin Categories and which one is ideal for Proper plannin...

Dec 29, 2013

Procurement Problem

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Dear Planners,I am establishing an EPC Schedule for a water supply project contains 81 Km pipeline and three tanks. For the tanks there are a lot of mechnical items to be procured, what is the best way to include those items in the schedule? I am thi...

Dec 29, 2013

Step by Step Technique

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Hello Everybody hope u r fine & enjoying life.Hi I have experience in Primavera P6 & I prepared different types of schedule like basic Plan & update actual after set the baseline & i can prepared the Resourse histrogram & also load the Resourse on sc...

Dec 30, 2013

The 1-2-3 of Primavera P6 Baselines

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Here's a blog explaining the primary, secondary and tertiary baselines and how they work. You can read it here http://ow.ly/scW0X

Jan 2, 2014