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P6 - Producing Asbuilt vs Asplanned

Hi,Iam attempting to produce a asbuilt vs as planned programme on P6 could someone please just out line the simple steps to follow.Thank you

Bringing activity details to project level

Hello, I am trying to create the foundation for a report resembling the table below, where the milestone is extracted from each project. I have looked into activity codes, but can't work out how to bring that information up to a project level. Table:...

Knowing When To Stop

Working on a Claims report supporting arbitration, mediation and possibly adjudicatrion.At what point do you stop. You have researched the claim and the nature of causation,realising that the records are demonstrating that your client is mainly at fa...

Activity Finish Moving Ahead 1day

Hello,There is a problem when i update the schedule and mark the activity as started my activity finish date automatically moves ahead. Example For an activity A my start date is 12.Oct.2013 and finish date is 15.oct.2013. When i update the schedule ...

Procedures, Processess & Standards

I've been tasked with writing some generic procedures, processess & standards for my current company on everything from general planning procedure to specific progress measurement standards. I have a few bits from previous companies & positions but d...

Record Progress against Baseline

Can you please help me? I have a Gantt chart with a Baseline and fully logic linked but as i record actual start and actual finish along with overall percentage complete the periods change, as they should. however i need to record progress not just a...

EXTENSION OF TIME CLAIM IN P6

Dear AllAt present am working in one big project. my projectis already extended more than one year. the following the causes to delay the project.1. Delay in design2. Delay in slab casting3. Delay in Block Work4. Delay in Plinths and epoxy for equipm...

Project Without Project Accountant

Project Budget & Project Accountant

HiIf a project has no defined budget and the actual cast is being recorded at the head office (not at the project) and not being communicated to the project manager and planning engineer means that either the project has not started or is planned to ...

Importing Code Library Entries

Hi, I'm currently trying to put together a template programme for a particular project where the data is being gathered in a rather cumbersome Excel document. At the moment, I'm trying to build a code library so that I can make the transfer of data b...

Primavera P6 Professional Hint Help

Here's an article explaining the rather useful Primavera P6 Professional Hint Help http://ow.ly/qjSF6

Timescale - month/week timescale

We usually refer to our weeks as "week ending" however the timescale shows the week beginning date. ie. Last week was "week ending october 26". When I chose month/week as my interval it shows "Oct 20" as you can see in the picture below:[[wysiwyg_ima...

Strict links

Vladimir,strict links were mentioned in this topic, but I found a couple of other things about them, which I don't understand.1) In the below example link between Activity2 and Activity4 is Strict. When the project resource leveled the following issu...

How to use Primavera P6's Time Distributed Reporting and Microsoft Excel

It’s common practice to use Primavera P6 Professional’s Time Distributed reports feature to create time-phased tables of data that are then exported to Microsoft Excel. However, if you’ve ever done this you may have noticed that in many cases the Sub...

Actual resources vs Planned resources

Hello Tilos users,I would appreciate if somebody explains the difference between Actula resources and Planned resources in Tilos.Are Actual resources mandatory if I want to update the project progress by using resources actual work? Or are they somet...

TILOS TO P6.7 export through XML

I am trying to export TILOS to P6 by exporting the former in XML format. It is giving an error which is as mentioned below:Mode:               MSP2PRMSource XML:         C:\Users\PRIMAV~1\AppData\Local\Temp\stg.primavera.xml (0 KB)Source XSD:        ...

Safran Project 5

 Just want to mention that Safran Project 5 was released on October 31.http://www.safran.no/news/archive/safran-project-5?em=1

Placing Gaps in the Timescale

I frequently have projects that have long gaps in the middle between two very hectic segments.  As always, managers want to see the entire schedule on a single paper width.  So the example below:   Six months straight work, followed by nine months of...

Tracking Progress via Baselines - How to handle more than 10?

Hello Forum,I'm new to ms project and trying to come up with a good way of tracking progress. The Baseline option of MS Project seems to help with this task. The only problem I have is the limitation of 10 baselines. A workaround seems to copy and pa...

Project Governance and Controls Symposium – Canberra

The Project Governance and Controls Symposium (PGCS) is back bigger and better then ever! Returning to Canberra on May 6-7, 2014, PGCS is the only Australasian symposium dedicated to promoting Project Performance Management through the interlined dis...