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Understanding the Planned Dates in Oracle Primavera P6

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By Yaser A. Al-Bustanji CPCM, ACIArb, PMP, PMI-SP, PMI-RMP, November, 2017IntroductionOf the many different types of date fields in Oracle® P6™, the most controversial and misleading dates are, "Planned Start" and "Planned Finish" dates of the activi...

Nov 17, 2017

The general thumb rule of Fabrication Productivity

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Dear Sir, I am new in planning section . I am now preparing a planning sheet regarding fabrication work. kindly guide me how much productivity and manpower will consider in verious section fabrication.like 1. shop floor heavy fabrication .2 . on site...

Nov 19, 2017

Different duration for same Project.

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Hi everybody ,I am a new user of Primavera.I am facing an issue regarding total duration of a project which is showing two different duration in two systems. I have imported this project to the second system from the first One where it was created.I ...

Nov 20, 2017

Microsoft Project and Super Critical Bars

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Here's how to create Gantt chart bar in Microsoft Project to highlight activities that are already behind or super critical http://ed.gr/h3l3

Nov 20, 2017

change order and reflection in baseline

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All change order modify the baseline in some way, such as cost, scope or time. but we do not create a new baseline everytime.how do we reflect this change order which only modifies part of the basline, in the baseline?for example, lets say we are bui...

Nov 21, 2017

WBS Import from Excel

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I have created some development code that allows me to Import a WBS Structure from an Excel file into an XER File directly & have been testing this with my own projects, along with some made up examples to try & test it out properly.I am looking to f...

Nov 22, 2017

P6(R8.4) get freeze when trying to export

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Dear Valued member,I have got a serious issue when exporting P6. I am using barnd new Toshiba Tecra Z50-C laptop. And I am using P6 as standalone.Whenever I am trying to export file , my laptop get freeze. In my current employer no body use P6 and th...

Nov 23, 2017

Display Options

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Hi All, I need some assistance in regards to displaying a two weekly programme. Firstly, I have all non-working time showing but with a grey fill, how can this be made to go behind the subheadings?Secondy, is there a way to specify a time period to b...

Nov 23, 2017

Primavera P6 and the Bars Label Mystery

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Here we explain the bars dialog conundrum in Primavera P6 and how bar definitions with no apparent bar labels still have bar labels http://ed.gr/if2h

Nov 24, 2017

Primavera Risk Analysis, Build impacted plans

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Hello Planners,I am trying to build risk impacted plans (both pre- and post-mitigation); everything works fine, except that I cannot have the risk summary tasks to include the risk impact tasks together with the base taskfor example: the base task is...

Nov 25, 2017

Calculations of Summary Original Durations in Primavera P6

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By Yaser A. Al-Bustanji CPCM, ACIArb, PMP, PMI-SP, PMI-RMP, November, 2017IntroductionThis article is a simple guide to understand the data stored in the P6 Original Duration fields that appear in all summary bands such as Project, WBS, Resources and...

Nov 27, 2017