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Safety Rules

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We are having some work done at our house and a young labourer was engaged in cutting bricks into headers with an angle grinder. My wife called out "Peter - where are your safety goggles?" Peter "In my toolbox" Wife "Well put them on or I'll slap you...

Feb 6, 2017

How do you insert weather delay allowance into a new schedule

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Hello,When you are preparing a baseline in the beginning, what is your practice to insert the anticipated weather or miscellaneous delays into a schedule?You put lags? if so where?You put an overall delay item in the end and decreases it as delays oc...

Feb 6, 2017

Paste Linking

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Hi all Can anyone please help me out and give me some guidance. I would like to set up a task pool that could be linked to the main programme I.e. If I was to alter the the task pool durations or operation it would automatically alter the main progra...

Feb 7, 2017

Primavera P6 EPPM Defining Baselines

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Here's how to display a project baseline and primary user's user baseline on the Gantt chart in Primavera P6 EPPM http://ow.ly/o3Ts308NScH

Feb 8, 2017

PDF writer not filling print area from P6

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Hi all,I am trying to create some PDF prints of a programme from P6 16.2 and when setting up a print for A3 and printing via pdf writer (i have tried Microsoft to PDF, CutePDF Writer and DORO) the writer is not filling the print area. When in the pri...

Feb 8, 2017

Critical Path Not Showing on P6 Schedule

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I am currently preparing a project schedule for a client. Project spec says: (1)  Schedule must show critical path. (2) Critical path should be defined as the "Longest Path" (3) Last activity (Project Finish Milestone) must have a "Finish On" constra...

Feb 8, 2017

Primavera Duration Types

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Hi all, could someone please explain with scenario/examples different duration types in P6. I am struggling to understand when to use what I.e fixed duration & units, fixed united etc. Appreciate your anticipated help, thanks

Feb 10, 2017

In-Browser Project Scheduling

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Simply download and install anything by the help of project scheduling features of project management software. Critical path schedules and resource allocation are the main resources of the software that highlight suggested activities in the section....

Feb 10, 2017

In-Browser Project Scheduling

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Simply download and install anything by the help of project scheduling features of project management software. Critical path schedules and resource allocation are the main resources of the software that highlight suggested activities in the section....

Feb 10, 2017

Tracking Welds Per Inches and Piping in P6 8.3

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Iam working on a Project where they want to track welds per inches and Piping in P6 8.3. They also want earned value regarding this. What is the best way to set that up in P6 to track accurately?    Thank You in Advance!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Feb 11, 2017

Gantt chart and resource allocation

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Hi!The customer requests a layout/view with the gantt chart for the coming month and the resource allocation beneath. (The resources in this case is machinery.) I could almost manage to do this by having the "normal" gantt chart on the upper part of ...

Feb 13, 2017

Gantt chart and resource allocation

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Hi!The customer requests a layout/view with the gantt chart for the coming month and the resource allocation beneath. (The resources in this case is machinery.) I could almost manage to do this by having the "normal" gantt chart on the upper part of ...

Feb 13, 2017

P6 - Different colours on different projects in stacked histogram

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Hi,I have different projects in Primavera, which make use of the same resources. I want to show the projects in an histogram, with each project a different colour. Does anybody know if this is possible?In the 'stacked histogram' of resource usage pro...

Feb 13, 2017

Line of Balance

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Hi all I am seeing more and more people wanting a line of balance set up as a spreadsheet, with each plot (housing project) down the left side and each activity along the top with the duration of each task identified, and then in each meeting cell a ...

Feb 14, 2017

Is CPM and float analysis over?

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Hi AllI had a debate with someone today about the value of CPM and float (as well as constraining the handover dates) and was wondering what my peers thought?While 4D planning is first prize, my projects are not able to wait until a model is built (v...

Feb 14, 2017

Duration in hours

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Hi,I got a schedule in which the start days and finish dates are having different times.The start time and finish time are different for different activities which is affecting the duration. Is there an easy way to fix this. The calender is 10 hrs/da...

Feb 14, 2017

Making sense out of Negative Float

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If an activity has +10 days of total float, which means if we delay this activity by 10 days it becomes critical path. Just to simulate, if we make this activity's duration increased by 11 days. Then this activity would drive the project end date and...

Feb 15, 2017