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P6 V7.0 Resource Profile Editing

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Looking for some expert help.  I'm creating some resource profiles for various projects.  My problem is that using the profile within P6, the cumulative cost curve is in the same color as the vertical bars (using either budgeted or remaining early or...

Sep 19, 2014

MS Project - macro to edit Project settings

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Quick question - is it possible to write a macro to edit "Project options" in Project 2010? Specifically I'm looking to write 2 macros to change the date format to Date+time and back to Date only.Useful if you quickly want to see exactly why an activ...

Sep 19, 2014

recommended reading material

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all you real pro Project controllers are going to hate this. ;-) I've been a scheduler at my refinery (get me ... MY refinery!) for the last 8 years. In this time i have been (rather loosely) overseeing the work of 2 other schedulers whilst schedulin...

Sep 19, 2014

A Really Ugly Guy Explains Critical Path Drag and Drag Cost

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6oBdEPdt1g (Hey, believe it or not, I used to be fairly good looking in my youth! You'll get old too some day!) It's a five-minute Youtube video released by my publishers in conjunction with the launch of my new book,...

Sep 19, 2014

How to show Dates when using histograme full view in printing?

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Hi All,Please can i know how to show the dates in historgrame full view when printing? When i print histograme with bar chart, i could see the dates when printing. When i move histogram to full view when print it, the dates just dissapearedIs this so...

Sep 19, 2014

how to import from ms project to primavera

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HelloI have MS project 2013 and Primavera P6 latest versionI made a schedule with MS Project and now I want to import to primavera. Used two method below but nothing worked. Method 1)I tried to export MS Project to excel. and then import from excel t...

Sep 20, 2014

History of PM

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Sep 22, 2014

construction civil works productivity rates

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Hi Everyone, I would like to share with you construction civil works productivity rates, I found this file very useful, what you think?Productivity Rates for Tilling          Size. (Cms)LocationAreaManpowerProduction RateRemarks    (Sqm. Per day)    ...

Sep 22, 2014

Junior, Master, and Senior Scheduler?

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 I've seen the titles Junior, Master, and Senior Schedulers but i've never seen any specific criteria for those titles?  Is it just years or is there some other criteria for those titles?

Sep 22, 2014

Early Remaining Units showing on Data Date...why ?

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hi to all experts, i have a query to ask about the Remaining Early Units because right now i have prepared my recovery schedule & my Data Date is 12 Sep 2014, furthermore my 1st day of Week is Friday. The Problem that my Remaining Early Units shows o...

Sep 23, 2014

% complete at summary tasks

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While tracking the project schedule i am finding problem. Some activities taking more duration then it was planned, so while updating the schedule i have entered actual start, remaining duration. Then the % completion is taking automaticallty. But th...

Sep 23, 2014

integrating sub contractor schedule and Contractor schedule

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Hi All,In our project we have different sub contractors, providng their schedules to update the master schedule. In the beginning, the sub contractor schedule(without resources) was added to the our master schedule. Then I added the resources in our ...

Sep 23, 2014

Critical Path Method: A Tale of Two Methods

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There are two competing methods to the calculation of the critical path. One method boasts the adoption by Oracle Primavera P6 while the other is considered the appropriate approach on the Project Management Institutes (PMI) http://ow.ly/BOwJ0

Sep 23, 2014

Planning, Scheduling and Managment courses for STOs

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InterPlan Systems is now offering a series of classes, seminars and workshops as part of their new STO Academy, including:Planner/Scheduler courses, with CertificationTurnaround Management BootcampATC Professional WorkshopeTaskMaker Wizard WorkshopeT...

Sep 23, 2014

Incomplete importing from Excel

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I am using Primavera P6 v 8.2. I tried to import the costs from spreadheet file after editing the values (converting the format to text), but all values are not imported correctly. There are around 1250 activities which should be updated after import...

Sep 24, 2014

Actual Finish Date vs Percent Complete

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Hello All,    Is there a way to to claim the completion date for an activity without declaring it 100% complete. Everytime I check the finish date box Primavera automatically declare it 100%. 

Sep 24, 2014

Duration changing with resource changes

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Hello All,     I am having trouble with my project duration changing everytime I change the max units/time of a rersource. What am  I doing wrong. I dont not want a resource to recalculate any of my durations.Thanks

Sep 25, 2014