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How to remove symbols (*, A) from Dates

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Hello everyone,when I creat a report in order to extract the Finish Dates of the Activity IDs and put them in an excel database, activities that are in progress or performed, will be extract in this way: PRC-3000/010Completed01-09-14 A15-09-14 AActiv...

Nov 24, 2014

Forecast curve preparation to Client

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Hi All,In our Project, we have to prepare a forecast cost curve along with the monthly report. I am following the below procedure to make it in P6, with the settings"fixed durations and units" and "Physical Percent Complete"After updating the schedul...

Nov 25, 2014

Urgent Help Needed - Smelter Plant Schedule

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Good day ColleaguesIve been put into a situation whereby my CEO requires me to urgently put together a schedule for a smelter plant (One of those situatins where they do not understand that you need some form of scope to create a schedule). Ive only ...

Nov 25, 2014

Latin Hypercube Sampling (LHS)

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Here we look at what is Latin Hypercube Sampling (LHS) and are there any benefits over Monte Carlo ow.ly/ERdLw

Nov 25, 2014

Webinars

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Hi AllI recently broadcast my first webinar on the topic of "Bottom Up Planning for Builders".It consisted of a live demonstration of a level 4 programme for:1. An eight story insitu structure.2. The MEP carcassing installation3. A 50km pipeline.Each...

Nov 27, 2014

Progress Review Meetings

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I work for a large construction company who is taking part in a billion dollar mega project. We have several projects of $1-10 million work. Our progress reviews are not based on a programme and a schudular is not even at these meeting. Instead QSs a...

Nov 28, 2014

EOT Claim

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Hi all,In a remeasurable contract, can the contractor claim for EOT based on more work required during execution than planned. or a new basline(time) to be fixed accordingly, everytime the planned quantity changes?For eg:In the plan, there was 40LM o...

Nov 29, 2014

to display resources in the gant chart

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I am a new user in primavera p6, please can some one to show me how to display on the gant chart the resources assigned for each activity beside the bar.Thank you

Nov 29, 2014

Problems Importing a Russian XER file

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Evening All, I need to import an XER file, however, the file relates to a Russian Project and I am getting the following error message when importing:[[wysiwyg_imageupload:2339:]]Obviously, when I try to find the correlating currency setting it is no...

Nov 30, 2014

WBS indent error

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Hi, after I merged 2 schedules by importing XER, the WBS indent gone missing (see pic 1)[[wysiwyg_imageupload:2341:]] and I have noticed "???" on the group and sort drop down list as below[[wysiwyg_imageupload:2340:]]also, the WBS seem double at some...

Dec 1, 2014

Resource allocation practice

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Hi,My programme consists of huge excavation / area grading work for which we are going to use 6 excavators. We have divided the whole area in 6 parts and excavation gonna start in all the areas at same time, hence consurrent work. So in the programme...

Apr 4, 2017

How to generate durations based on defined budgeted labour units

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Hi - I need help understanding how to automatically generate durations based on budgeted labour units (hours from my estiamte).  I can't change the hours allowed for an activity or task and I am having to manually input durations - how can I fix this...

Apr 4, 2017

Issues in calculate the projects completion%

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Hi  For example, Project A have 2 Milestones start in 2017 and 2018The work in milestone 1 is 100% complete , which is represent the major efoort og the whole project milestone 2 is actually to do FQA the point is the system we have consider all mile...

Apr 5, 2017

Importing P6 file without resources

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Hi,I received a new P6 programme with several resources. Is it any option to import the programme without the resources. I tried the modify data while importing, but not working.ThanksRegardsKannan

Apr 5, 2017