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Tips & Tricks in P6

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Guys,Just like to know if there are tips & tricks for P6 that is not written in the P6 Book be shared here.For example, there might be a way to highlight a row with some keyboard stroke or changing the vertical spacing in headers/footers text.All are...

Oct 19, 2010

RC FRAME

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Morning all, Has anyone got a detailed sequence of works for a insitu concrete frame along with a guide to the duration? Regards James

Oct 19, 2010

Resouce Based Durations

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Hello everybody as we know and always talk about that:Activity Duration = Work/ OutputNow I put up a question like this in a road construction program i take one activity say earthworks:Activity     Unit   QtyEarthwork Cum    10000Now I calculate the...

Oct 19, 2010

Revise,recover & Update

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Can Any body provide me  the difference between , Programme revision,recovery , Update ,, is it mentioned any where in the PMI Books

Oct 19, 2010

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Oct 19, 2010

NEC3 Risk Register

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Hello EveryoneThis is a sort of mini survey.I would like to ascertain whether the NEC3 requirement for a risk register is actually implemented in the real world.If any one has been involved in NEC3 projects how many had a risk register established an...

Oct 19, 2010

Advise/help on MSP 2007

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Hey Guys, I have a few questions on scheduling of activities in MSP 2007. Any help/advise will be much appreciated. I have an activity that if it is 50% complete, a successor will start. How do I link them or do I have to break up the predecessor act...

Oct 20, 2010

Changing the Price/Unit of multiple resources in one shot

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We have activities that have resources in multiple offices.  In order to show the remaining hours per activity for the individual offices, we are currently setting the Price/Unit to 1 for the resource we want to show, and 0 for the resources we do no...

Oct 20, 2010

Gas station

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Hi planners,   Is there anyone who has experience in building a gas station? The project is a green filed project, from earth works to last finishing details. What I am looking for is tips and breakdown structure regarding the time schedule. Usually ...

Oct 20, 2010

P3 technical glitch

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In a 3 month programme I prepared, I added additional detailed activities and after I F9’d I left it open on my PC while doing other task. When I returned to have a look some activities gradually disappeared from the screen. I’m not sure what I click...

Oct 21, 2010

Primavera P6

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When I export files from P6 to excel , the numbers are tranferred as TEXT. Can we get the numbers exported in number format

Oct 21, 2010

Problem in P5 basline defining

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hi ; i have a problem in P5 basline defining ,when i'm going to define a new baseline for my project , i face with bellow error and it terminate the pocess : SQL Server ERRO, the statement has been terminated. insert statement conflicted with COLUMN ...

Oct 21, 2010

P6 Roll-up (Performance % CompletE)

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Hi All, In p6, is there any way to roll-up % complete as based on Performance? In my schedule program, some activities are costed/resourced, however,  there is a Owner review period withtout respective costing.... Anayway P6 can roll progress based o...

Oct 21, 2010

Clarity Software

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Hi, Has anyone ever worked on Clarity before? My clients operation department is using Clarity, whereas, we are proposing P6? Any thoughts on this comparison will be appreciated. Cheers, Rav

Oct 21, 2010

Controlling the resource dictionary in P6

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Hello planners Can anyone tell me what is the current best practice for controlling the resource dictionary when managing a P6 database where many contractors will be supplying updates?  I will set up a complete resource dictionary of labour, plant a...

Oct 22, 2010

Article: An Overview of the Analysis of Construction Delays

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Hi, I work for Asta, one of the sponsors of Planning Planet.  But don't worry, I won't be bombarding you with sales messages.  Quite a number of our customers work in the area of forensic claims analysis and they have produced various articles and al...

Oct 22, 2010