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Resources Labour units not recalculating after Loading

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Hi! I assigned some resource for trial, with its "Default Units/ time as 8/d" and then I assigned it to activities. After scheduling, the programme calculates the labour units based on that. (Pic 1) But then when I change the same resource "Default U...

Apr 2, 2018

Add column(s) to Revision Box

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Is it possible to introduce NEW column(s) into default Revision Box in page setup?  Thanks in advance.

Apr 4, 2018

Why not automatically closing old discussions?

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Once in a while a Planning Planet member revives very old discussions they should have asked years ago when the discussion was active.  It is offensive to many of us such actions.The following being the last one:http://www.planningplanet.com/forums/p...

Apr 4, 2018

Have your say at Planning Planet's community gathering

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The Planning Planet Midlands Kick-Off Meeting will be taking place on Wednesday 18 April 2018 from 18:30 onwards and is available for like-minded Project Controls practitioners in our industry. If you are interested in networking, sharing knowledge a...

Apr 4, 2018

Changing the order of activities

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Hi All,I'm new to using primavera, i currently use Asta Powerproject, so this software is scary compared to what i know.Can anyone help me, i'm trying to simply re-order my activities? To explain what i've done so far:I have added in 3 activities, gi...

Apr 9, 2018

Changing the order of activities

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Hi All,I'm new to using primavera, i currently use Asta Powerproject, so this software is scary compared to what i know.Can anyone help me, i'm trying to simply re-order my activities? To explain what i've done so far:I have added in 3 activities, gi...

Apr 9, 2018

Highlight individual activities in Primavera P6 report

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In primavera P6 report, they do not support to highlight individual activity which we want, such as activity behind schedule. Now, I will share with you one way to do this. And in this demo, I want to highlight activity has Total Float (TF) and Varia...

Apr 10, 2018

Font and design tools not appears on Page Setup window

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Hi all!Font options and design functions are not appears for some users on Primavera 8.2 . I am looking for the solution. This a picture from web. I mean the tools under Add text section. I hope I could explain. How can i solve this problem?[[wysiwyg...

Apr 12, 2018

Resource Profile Curves for Oil & Gas FEED Projects

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Greetings,I have been working on and wanted to know from your experience that which resource profile curves (either P6 default or customized such as deliverable or discipline specific) works best for Oil & Gas FEED projects, so that the overall Engin...

Apr 14, 2018

Resource usage in a report

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Dear All,In a report I have included a table showing the tasks that a resource should be working on in a particular week. So open tasks per week per resource.When possible I would like to extent that table with the amount of hours a resource should b...

Apr 16, 2018

Microsoft Project Updating - 2 Weeks Only

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Hi All, My boss has asked me to provide an update of project porgress for a 2 week timeframe only. This would range from the status date + 2 weeks. When using the 'date range' filter it shows activities that start in this timeframe and finish after i...

Apr 16, 2018

primavera budgeted cost changes

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Hi All,i assigned resources and cost to  my schedule ... but when i enter any actual date in the schedule budgeted total cost gets zero ..before i didnt come across with this kind of situation.. your help will be appreciated.. thanks ina dvance

Apr 16, 2018

Tips for Creating Effective Gantt Charts

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Gantt charts are widely used by project management teams to recognize the current status and plan the upcoming activities of the project. Activities are represented as horizontal bars and the length of the bar shows the activity duration.- Make a Tas...

Apr 17, 2018

The Data-Driven Approach to Project Risk Management

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The data-driven approach to project risk should be:  Collecting better and more targeted data and informationDeveloping a more accurate risk ranking systemEstablishing a stronger understanding of project risksDeveloping more relevant metrics, rather ...

Apr 17, 2018