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Space in Bar

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Greetings PlannersI am updating a baseline schedule, some of the activities that have actual start but not yet completed, their bar after the data date bar is not continous, there is a space between the data date and then the bar for the next period ...

Apr 10, 2021

Non-working days color

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When viewing the primavera Gant chart, the shaded columns representing non-wokring days have become a very light shade of grey and extremly difficult to see.Is there a way to revert them to the original color? or darken the exisiting color?

Apr 12, 2021

Add Decimal Places to Microsoft Project % Complete

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By default, Microsoft Project does not display task % complete numbers with decimal places. In this tutorial, you will learn how to add decimal places to % complete using custom fields. 

Apr 15, 2021

SAP - Planning

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Hello All, I am a Project Control Engineer in Oil & Gas Sector. I keep on hearing SAP requirement in Planning in some companies. Does anyone have an idea of what it is related to and what course needs to be done. I am in UAE. Reccomendation much appr...

Apr 19, 2021

Seasonal or winter assumption variance in regards to delays question

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If I contractor is really delayed 10 days in say June, on a two year project, but then is able to work 10 more days in that following December than the assumption in the schedule, should they still get those 10 days of delay?  If not, why would anyon...

Apr 21, 2021

Work amount , quantity and resource

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I want to confirm something.Lets say we have 1000 lf of conduit to install. One labor installs 200 lf conduits a day. Lets call him worker 1. So it will take him 5 days to complete.Now if we had only him as labor, the duration of this task is 1000/20...

Apr 26, 2021

Why? Or should we/they change logic that completed out of order?

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When a successor is complete 100% the program just skps to the next successor in the chain, so why should the logic be changed to the way it really happened?  Or should we just leave it to keep from complicating the schedule and comparisons?  I used ...

Apr 27, 2021

The Bridge on the River Kwai

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I will be teaching a course (for a non-project management audience) in the fall titled: "Profiles of Leadership in Classic Films". One of the films we'll be exploring is The Bridge on the River Kwai. Great flick, which I first watched 55 years ago, h...

Apr 28, 2021

Resource Assignment

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Hi All,Need to report 'resource limit' allocated to activities and show on a spread sheet or report. I set up the resources limits as per below, the 'resource usage spreadsheet' still shows the default 8h/d. There are multiple resources (diffrent set...

Apr 30, 2021

Optics: The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly

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The traditional definition of optics is the scientific study of sight or light.  An alternative description relates to politics and refers to the perception of a situation.  The political origin dates back to the Carter Administration when a Wall Str...

May 3, 2021

How to show Baseline Execution Index (BEI) in Microsoft Project

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The Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA) 14-Point Assessment is a set of metrics used to evaluate the quality of a project schedule to ensure that the schedule is fit for purpose. And one of the 14 metrics is the Baseline Execution Index (BEI) w...

May 5, 2021

Resource Dependant

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Hi all,When setting up  'resource dependant' activity with a duration of 5 days, then assigning 5 resources to the activity with a shared resource calendar of 4h/d (0800-1200).Can one still get the activities start, finish & duration to not change as...

May 6, 2021

RESOURCES DISTRIBUTION WHEN UPDATING

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Hi all,I allocated revenues in a non labor resource assigned to activities. Now, we manually input the monthly revenues we forecast so that the curve for the remaining units (money) is not calculated by the software, maybe applying a resources curve,...

May 7, 2021

Primavera Contractor

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I'm trying to find out if its still possible to purchase a copy of Primavera Contractor.Can anybody help?

May 8, 2021

Collapse completed summary tasks only

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Hi  Is there any way to collapse summary tasks where OPC = 100% only?My schedule contains a lot completed summary tasks so I don't want to show them in the view with entire content. I can do this manually but looking for more convienient way. Summary...

May 12, 2021

Loss of Productivity

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Dear All, We're EPC, and our Subcontractor issued claim for loss of productivity. What substantiation to prove and what particular account items are they entitled, if its our default. Thanks

May 14, 2021

How to modify "Note to ressource" field

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Hi everybody,my organisation recently moved from P6V7 to P6V19. We have a concern regarding field "Note to ressource".On our previous version, we were able to modify or delete content. Now on V19, this field is locked with no possibility to modify it...

May 14, 2021