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Activity usage profile

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Does anyone know why actual bar in the activity usage profile shows a different number from what we get in the activity table column? We have set financial periods. Our “actual this period” doesn’t match with the profile.

Nov 17, 2019

SPI calculation in P6

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In our previous month’s update we had a forecast (remaining early)of 10 million for this month. This month our actual is much less than last month and is around 5 million. We have assigned previous month’s update as our baseline for this month. So th...

Nov 17, 2019

Weekly schedule % complete.

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Hi all,Just wondering, in P6 if there is any way to get weekly planned schedule % complete in excel. Thanks,Kind Regards,Syed

Nov 18, 2019

Overall Weightage by Cost

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Hello Everyone,Need Help.I saw a schedule in which the Progress is weighed by Cost.Each activity under each WBS has a cost. So everytime it is updated the WBS shows the % Planned and % Actual.Overall it shows % Completed based on Cost.So how can it b...

Nov 18, 2019

BI Export - working days and elapsed duration

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Hi In my model I extract tasks data according to line below from model file:<Column name="DurationDays" datatype="Duration" group="Date" formula="Duration / '1d'"/> The problem is that some tasks have duration in working days and some of them in elap...

Nov 18, 2019

Same plan 2 computers different calculations - help please

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Good afternoon/Morning depending where you are.A fellow planner has come to me with an issue today, he's finding odd calculations in his plan.  I've opened the same plan (we're in the same server).On mine the original duration is different, the remai...

Nov 19, 2019

Earned Value Tracker template

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Hello, I work in the Oil & Gas Engineering projects. The client has requested for a EVM tracker. Can someone share a template and brief guideline, on how to calculate it. Thanks for your efforts and time,Nisha

Nov 19, 2019

Earned Value Tracker template

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Hello, I work in the Oil & Gas Engineering projects. The client has requested for a EVM tracker and Productivity reports. Can someone share a template and brief guideline, on how to calculate it. Thanks for your efforts and time,Nisha

Nov 19, 2019

Filter activities by resources

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Dear all,is there a way to filter activities, which have certain resources assigned? E.g. I want only activities, which have resource A and B assigned 

Nov 20, 2019

Producing Reports from P6

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  Good Morning All I am using P6 v16.2 I cannot get a report out of it formatted as I want it to be, it is a simple report showing planned units for labour and materials, when I export to excelas an xls file the data on each line is one long line of ...

Nov 21, 2019

Changing Dates Cashflow/Income calculated from

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Hi all I have generated a cashflow forecast in Powerproject which by the default periods are calendar months. I want to change this so that the calculation is based on specific dates - i.e valuation dates, which in this case are on the 18th of the mo...

Nov 23, 2019

Project Category in Menu greyed out

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In Primavera 16 this item is greyed out.  In Primavera 18 I don't think it is.  I believe it to be a an Admin. issue but there is no "user section" on either due to the SQLite database.  How can I get it to appear so I can assign a baseline? (there i...

Nov 25, 2019

P6 - resource is not showing activities that are completed

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Hello All,  I suspect the resource is not showing on the activities that are completed because it is a bit light after the progress line. Please see image below. The design activities are blue resources but i cannot see anything blue on the histogram...

Nov 26, 2019

End-of-window (retrospective) validation in TIA with a SRP

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Hi guys,I'm working on a project where the contractor issued a schedule recovery plan (SRP) at the end of a certain window. The contractor had impacted Owner's event into the network to determine their EOT entitlement.My question is: how do we retros...

Nov 27, 2019

Skills - Partial Workload

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Vladimir,I need a little help understandin partial workload and skills.As far as I know (and tried) you cannot assign partial workload at the skill level, only at the resource level in the skill. when doing so Spider doesn't apply the partial workloa...

Nov 27, 2019

P6 Project Baseline Issue

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I have recently started a new role, and there are several issues with systems that i am trying to get to the bottom of....one of them is the Project Baseline functionality within P6.When a baseline is taken and assigned as the project baseline, the p...

Nov 28, 2019

Urgent: Apply Fixed Price Cost to Activity

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Hello All,  I want to apply a Fixed Price Cost to my activities. For exampleFoundation Original Duration = 10 days Fixed Price Cost for this activity = $10000 QUESTION: 1) How do apply the fixed price cost to this activity? 2) When i progress the act...

Dec 2, 2019

Resource Assignment

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Hi All,  Can i know why i can see the resource on each day?  For example, i have 4000 unit assign to activity A1010 but i only can see 800. I have 5 days on that activity so it should be 800, 800, 800, 800, 800  ThanksMike   [[wysiwyg_imageupload:716...

Dec 2, 2019