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Update progress in P6

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I would like to know, how updating through "Apply actuals" is different from "Update progress". In which situation we will use these options. At present, I am updating progress via Status tab in activity details. Is that wrong. Please explain.

Feb 14, 2011

strange issue with the baseline schedule

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Dear All i am facing a strange issue for one of my projects. presently i m working for a project which has started on 1st jan 2011. now i have assigned the baseline and started updating. now since there was some changes to be made with the baseline s...

Feb 14, 2011

Open Pit Mine & Infrastructure Schedule

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Hallo Guys, I am looking for a typical "Open Pit Mine & Infrastructure" Schedule.  We are heading into FEL4 and need to compile the Master Construction Schedule.  Looking at Haulage roads, Engineering workshops, Draglink Workshop, Tyre exchange works...

Feb 14, 2011

Installing Primavera on my laptop

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Hi all, I am trying to install stand alone version of Primavera-P6 on my laptop.It is showing my error in iinstalling databases:I get error message that: "Error in creating Project Management Database" "Error in creating methodology management databa...

Feb 14, 2011

Help, Longest Path Filter Shows Only 3 activities

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I work as Owner represntative for a residental project, the contractor submitted a baseline (P6) for approval with 30,000+ activities. It's killing my machine.the problem is that when I activate the critical path filter, it only show 3 milestones act...

Feb 15, 2011

Update P6 WBS and WBS name

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Dear All, Could anyone help to update  WBS and WBS Name in p6  by p6 SDK tool   Regards, T.Shanmugapandian Senior Planning Engineer Hochtief

Feb 15, 2011

Engineering Dependancies

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Hi everyone,I've never created new topics in any of planning forums, but this time I thought to give it a try, and hopefully you will be able to help/advise/guide me with the quesion I have..I'm looking for some kind of a list of major engineering de...

Feb 15, 2011

Using SDK requires superuser privilages ?

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In order to edit or add / write data into P6, is superuser privilages is required? If that is through then not so many people can use it. There are no much advantage in being able to read the information. SDK would be useful if it could be used to up...

Feb 16, 2011

Using SDK requires superuser privilages ?

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In order to edit or add / write data into P6, is superuser privilages is required? If that is through then not so many people can use it. There are no much advantage in being able to read the information. SDK would be useful if it could be used to up...

Feb 16, 2011

Project Summary show only one fourth duration of activity

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Hi Alll       I have one question about the actual duratin in MS project-2003. I am using 24 hous calander for my prject. when i updated my actual duration E.g. 10 hrs then in project summary it shows only 2.41 hrs. similiarlr when 20 hrs it appears ...

Feb 16, 2011

sub-project

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Hi to all expertise I have a situation like below Our engineering team sits in a different country, similarly procurement, but I am at site.  In P3 ver 3.1, each phase of engineering and procurement is created as separate sub-project.  During Monitor...

Feb 16, 2011

Group Forum Topic

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Hi to All, A new Group was formed here in PP, with regard, how can we create a forum topic inside the group? The newly created Group "Group Forum" shows a message Access Denied.   Thanks in advance.   Regards,   Raymund

Feb 16, 2011

Tracking

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Dear All, I have created a schedule and the same has been approved by the clients. Now we want to monitor the progress based on this schedule. I have saved a copy of this original. Now the following steps were done by myself to track the progress:  T...

Feb 16, 2011

Duration,Work Unit and Resource equation

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Hi to allWould you please advise how activity duration,work unit and resource are equated in MS Project,Primaver and Spider?RegardsShahul

Feb 17, 2011

Problem when Convert From P3 To P6

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 Good morning planners  I faced problem when i make convert from p3 to p6, the problem is, there is Hammock activity have Succ & Pred relationship  when I convert it to P6 the pred relationship disappear !!!  how can I solve this problem please advis...

Feb 17, 2011

Delay Period Representation

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HiIn a schedule with 2 calendars (one with 6 days as working period and another with 7 days are working period ) assignment,on determination of delay period after applying TIA (Time Impact Analysis ) method,the resulting delay period should be mentio...

Feb 17, 2011

Nokia-Microsoft connections unlikely to disrupt mobile sector

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Nokia and Microsoft have entered a smartphone development arrangement, the 2 businesses announced last week. Nokia said it will phase out its Symbian OS. Symbian, which has been losing market share to Android can be exchanged by Microsoft's Windows P...

Feb 17, 2011