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Download My Planning Engineers Preparation Course for Free

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Dear all,it is my pleasure to share with the course i have prepared for planning engineers.Step by step , how to create time schedule using primavera and excel.01 lesson no. 1 Planning Engineer Job Role02 The content of project management plan03 Less...

Feb 12, 2014

Primavera 8.2 tool bars missing

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When i opened Primavera none of my toolbars are available and are missing, any idea how to restor them?

Feb 12, 2014

Ghost Activities and Users

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I have recently imported some XERs that have been created by other users, the problems are:There are ghost constraints on activities, basically the asterisk * is in the finsh date field implying that there is a constraint, however on the activities s...

Feb 12, 2014

Access control problem: Cant edit layout filters: P6 R8.3.2

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Hi. I have regular access to my part of the EPS. I have one small problem, I can create layout filters ("Copy to layout" from the filters box), but i cant modify or delete them.  I have talked to the administrator, and we have reviewed the settings, ...

Feb 13, 2014

BL PROJECT FINISH DATE IN P6

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Hi,We got an EOT approved and submitted the last updated program complying the new project finish date. I submitted the updated schedule as the revised baseline. Now when I maintained the baseline (Save a Copy The Current Project) and assigned accord...

Feb 13, 2014

Progress Comments Column

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Good Morning, I am after a bit of help in Asta PowerProject (if what I am trying to do is even achieveable). I record progress against a new progress period every two weeks for each project I oversee, and there are inevitably comments against the pro...

Feb 14, 2014

Unassigned baseline problem with current project

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Hi All,Although i havent assigned any baseline to my schedule in bar chart i see baseline bars(project,primary or secondary) for actual activities seen attached pictureWhen i assign baseline i also see same bars[[wysiwyg_imageupload:1954:]]Can anybod...

Feb 14, 2014

Improving Primavera P6 Security

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How to improve Oracle Primavera P6 security for you and your users and avoid making these common mistakes http://ow.ly/tCRVI

Feb 14, 2014

Wikipedia listing, possibly erroneous - Process deliverables

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I was just directed to this wikipedia link regarding process deliverables by Intuit.http://engineeringchecks.freewiki.in/index.php?title=Deliverables_List&redirect=noIts a nice list but it does not align with my understanding of the process steps.  I...

Feb 14, 2014

Project closes all by itself

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Hello Planners, do you know how to set up P6 (client - server) to make it close automatically the projects when user exits Primavera P6? thank you, Alexandre

Feb 17, 2014

Are numbers real?

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As planners we use numbers every day of the week but how real are they?In the western world, numbers in the form we know and use today appeared in the 13th century when Leonardo Pisano Bigollo (c. 1170 – c. 1250), known as Fibonacci an Italian mathem...

Feb 17, 2014

Auto Actual Cost

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Dear All,If anybody can help me on the following topic as earliest, it will be very helpfull..During my updatation of the activities, actual cost is not getting updated against the percentage completion only for some activities.  i already turned on ...

Feb 18, 2014

Update OPtions

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hey all ,, I've start my new jop as a planner engineer, i want to konw how to set the update Options in the P6 because i think that there is a problem ,, when i update an activity that isn't finish yet, by mark it as started and insert a percentage o...

Feb 18, 2014

Interproject link disappears upon Activity code change

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Dear all,another question regarding portfolios. I noticed, that if I change the code of activity to which there was an inter project link, then this link will simply disappear from the portfolio without any warning upon the next portfolio consolidati...

Feb 18, 2014

Wikipedia listing, possibly erroneous - Process deliverables

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I was just directed to this wikipedia link regarding process deliverables by Intuit.http://engineeringchecks.freewiki.in/index.php?title=Deliverables_List&redirect=noIts a nice list but it does not align with my understanding of the process steps.  I...

Feb 18, 2014

Activity Suspension

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Hi guys, In P6 8.1, I found something strange with activity suspension; when I have updated the schedule with DD – 14/Feb/14 I found one activity to be suspended from 28/Feb/14 till 15/Mar/14. After entering the suspension and resume dates, when I re...

Feb 19, 2014

SDK Excel worksheets

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Hi everyone.. Where I can download the SDK Excel worksheets for P6 v8.1? If you have them kindly send me a copy to lynnfr41@gmailcom. Thanks in advance.

Feb 19, 2014

Indrect cost for Defining Budget & at later stage for EVA

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Dear All;I am involed in defining a project budget. Costs for Direct manpower, Mahinery, materials, cost & overheads at site have been calculated. No I need to add indirect cost to complete my activity estimates process. And also at later stage I sha...

Feb 19, 2014

What’s The Status?

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Here's an article looking at RAG and MBWA methods of updating project status http://ow.ly/tMpHi

Feb 19, 2014