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Drag Summary Bars in P6

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Hello P6 Experts,How to drag/move main summary bar to new position/date in P6 for shifting the whole project to the new start  date?In Asta powerproject it is very easy to do that.Roll up the whole project in one summary bar and then move this summar...

Feb 8, 2013

Start dates

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This may be a simple question but I cannot get a set of activities to start on the same date.  When I assign the relationship and put a Start to Start relationship the only option is Start on or before.  I want all the activities to start on the same...

Feb 8, 2013

Oil & Gas

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Schedule for Oil  & Gas / Petro chemicals

Feb 9, 2013

Scurves for plannd and actual progress using MSp

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Dear sir,I am working in the planning division of the refinery and is required to genertae the planned and actual progress of a refinery turnaround jobs on a daily basis to the top management.How to do this in MSP.I have an initial schedule.I have no...

Feb 9, 2013

Critical Activities

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Hi All!As I am updating the schedule and run the 4th update of the project, I obtained all activities are critical. After I submitted to consultant, they commented that all works are critical and cannot be logically correct.Is there something wrong w...

Feb 9, 2013

Bars in red color for critical activities or float <=0

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Hello, I'd like to ask the experts in P6. I was presenting a report of critical activities with float less than or equal zero. They were coming up in red color. Now, all of a sudden, they are coming up in green color like a normal activity. I have re...

Feb 10, 2013

Coduct Schedule Analysis for a Poorly Recorded Project

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Greetings to ALLNeed to conduct Schedule Analysis to decide on Contractor's entitlement; given the following situation:The project is already completedProject original duration is one and half years, but the actual is four yearsApproved Baseline Sche...

Feb 10, 2013

Primavera P6 Online Training

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Primavera P6 Online TrainingDuration: 30hrsFee: 15,000/- INR MS-Project 2007/2010 Online TrainingDuration: 20hrsFee: 10,000/- INRFaculty: 8+yrs exp in Project Management & PlanningContact: [email protected]

Feb 10, 2013

Results from Quality Analysis of over 5,000 projects

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 I thought I'd share these results with the PP community! We've evaluated over 5,000 projects and gleaned average scores for schedule quality indicators such as missing logic, insufficient detail, use of constraints and more.  How does your project c...

Feb 11, 2013

Update Progress

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Hello Group,I have a query which is driving me crazy.I have a WBS created with 20 headings and each heading has 40-50 activities listed under them.When I try to "update progress" all activities show "% complete" as per the data date which is "Feb 13 ...

Feb 12, 2013

Primavera Contract Manager

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Hi,How to integrate the PCM with P6 Software? By doing so, any main advantage is there other than than using the stand alone P6 software.Please advise Thanks in advanceKannan

Feb 12, 2013

Total Float -1 with Mandatory Finish

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I am currently using P6 v7.0. We have just created a project, for the finish milestone, we gave it a mandatory finish of August 23, 2013. All the predeccessor activities complete by August 21, 2013. Yet I am showing a total float of -1. Can someone p...

Feb 12, 2013

Data Date Time

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Hi All I was reviweing a contractor's schedule as part of a delay analysis exercise when I noticed that the time set on the data date progress line was 08:00. The work calendar is due to start on 07:00 so for every progress report one hour is lost on...

Feb 13, 2013

6 Tips to Developing your Project Scope and Schedule – Mind Mapping

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I came across this rather different approach to creating your project scope and generating a project schedule. The article describes how mind mapping software helps by firstly brainstorming the project requirements all the way to assigning resources ...

Feb 13, 2013

How to Change Remain Finish Date

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Hi, I have an activity which started earlier than forecasted and will consequently finish earlier. The problem is when I put the expected finish date on Feb 15th I can't draw the finish date earlier than Feb 22nd. I get the message : "Finish date can...

Feb 13, 2013

P6 show Fiscal Calendar Weeks

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Hi Guys, Looking for a bit of help with a layout. I work in the rail industry. We work on weeks everyone on the project refers to project weeks and not dates. The weeks run from the First Saturday In July to the Last Friday the following June. (I.e W...

Feb 14, 2013