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Enterprise Project Management and Governance

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Enterprise Project Management enables control within projects and programmes, management of constraints and resources across the portfolio, and assurance. However – if it’s not supporting decision making, half of the value is lost – and if your decis...

May 25, 2018

Assign other progam as a baseline -Synchro

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 Hi there,  have 2.sp files and both has been  exported form P6. one is baseline(No progress) and other is updated . how can I assign the baseline over the updated one ? Thank you

May 27, 2018

Error in P6 R8.2- Application Event

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Hello,Iam doing a Time impact analysis and in the Projects layout , i was copying and pasting the baseline to create more windows for analysis. After doing this and completing few windows, there was an error as shown below,"An application event has b...

May 28, 2018

Hours issue dragging 1 day activities over days

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Hi There, I am currently encountering this issue in prog. One day activities are dragged over two days. I checked the user preference, calendar, and admin preference all have same duration; my day has 8 hour duration and it starts from 8am but in som...

May 29, 2018

Importing XML to P6 error

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Morning all, I'm trying to import an XML/MPP file into P6 v8.2 and keep getting an error  SEVERE: Unable to invoke setHoursPerYear on business object Calendar. Value for field "HoursPerYear" in Calendar may not be set to greater than 8784. com.primav...

May 30, 2018

Monte Carlo Simulation

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Hello Our company would like to do a monte carlo/probability analysis on a financial model which has a number of variables which includes a number of funding/profit sources, borrowing sources, interest rates, years/duration's, etc. We are trying to d...

May 31, 2018

A survey on Impact of construction programme and cash flow tecniques

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Dear Participant,I invite you to participate in a research study entitled-IMPACT OF CONSTRUCTION PROGRAMME & CASH FLOW ON CONTRACTOR’S PROFITABILITY I am currently enrolled in the MBA (Construction and Real Estate) at the University College of Estate...

May 31, 2018

P6 database configuration

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If I have not been told which database congfiguration to to use can I use any of the 3 offered when I log in for the first time or does it actually matter which one I use.The three options are Oracle, MS SQL Server or Primavera compression server

May 31, 2018

Hide Activities in P6

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Hello, I have been trying to hide activities in my P6 Schedule. I tried using filter, but it changes the duration of the project.I wish to hide activities, that retains my Project Schedule. Best Regards,Nisha Joseph

Jun 1, 2018

Project Portfolio Management: Simplify the Selection Process

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Many organizations struggle with project portfolio management (PPM).  On the face of it, portfolio management should be easy.  We want to align our fi\unding decisions to the organization’s strategic objectives.  Since budgets are limited, this becom...

Jun 3, 2018

Sample of xer file

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Dear All, who can share cost loaded schedule in xer ? P6 thanks in advance Regards,Elnur

Jun 4, 2018

DACE labor productivity norms

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Hi everybody,I am leading the planning office of my company mainly involved as EPC contractor in industrial plants and infrastructures.After many years, I have the opportunity to purchase a database of labor productivity norms. I am trying to find a ...

Jun 4, 2018

Activities in which WBS Level in any view

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All, Is there a way of showing the WBS level in any view? Even a formulae in global change to show the WBS level that the activity is in would help. Thanks Pranab

Jun 4, 2018

Sample Building schedule

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Attached sample Primavera and MS Project schedule for reference http://projectplanner.in/projects/simple-building-project/ 

Jun 5, 2018

Summarise milestones date

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Good morning colleagues, I have some challenge which I haven't witnessed before... I added milestone summary in my WBS to enable users glance through the first page and understand the schedule but I just observed it wasnt effecting the date as suppos...

Jun 6, 2018

Primavera 6 ver17.**

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Hello Guys,Just like to know if some of you guys experience what we experience with the latest version of P6.We migrated from v8.4 to v17.12.2 and everything has been okay, but when we import our native .xer file and send it to a client with same ver...

Jun 7, 2018

Default units/time

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How will changing the default units/time from 1/d to 8/d or vice versa effect the calculations? I changed them in my schedule and so far didn't notice any change.

Jun 11, 2018