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Good Day Everyone,I am new here and i can only say this is the best forum i have seen for a while.Can any one please explain the effects of the : Baseline type and Unit of Measure tabs in the Admin Categories and which one is ideal for Proper plannin...

Dec 29, 2013

Procurement Problem

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Dear Planners,I am establishing an EPC Schedule for a water supply project contains 81 Km pipeline and three tanks. For the tanks there are a lot of mechnical items to be procured, what is the best way to include those items in the schedule? I am thi...

Dec 29, 2013

Step by Step Technique

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Hello Everybody hope u r fine & enjoying life.Hi I have experience in Primavera P6 & I prepared different types of schedule like basic Plan & update actual after set the baseline & i can prepared the Resourse histrogram & also load the Resourse on sc...

Dec 30, 2013

The 1-2-3 of Primavera P6 Baselines

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Here's a blog explaining the primary, secondary and tertiary baselines and how they work. You can read it here http://ow.ly/scW0X

Jan 2, 2014

P6 Enterprise in Windows 8?

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Dear all,I'm planning to procure a laptop but not sure whether P6 Enterprise could be loaded in Windows 8 so I dropped by to ask if it's ok? Need your advise..Thanks ahead! Adelfa

Jan 4, 2014

Cost Loading Activities

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Hi Planners,Just wondering if someone can help me cost load a 'warehouse rental' activity in my P6 programme.I've got a 'Level of Effort' activity which reflects the duration of warehouse rental requred. I've set the duration type to 'Fixed Units/Tim...

Jan 6, 2014

Program planning setup

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Dear forum members,I recently got assigned the task of program management for one of our business sectors.What is required of me is firstly to have a complete overview of what was done, when and where. And this is also where I am stuck. It is safe to...

Jan 6, 2014

Schedule % Complete Dieffrences

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Dear P6 experts,Acttualy, our consultant dont get the same schedule % complete on his programme,We took an example for one WBS level, activities have the same activity % complete, same expenses, but we don't get the same schedule % complete on the WB...

Jan 6, 2014

Leveling resources: "Activities that cannot be leveled". Why

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Hi. I'm doing a feasability analysis for an early fase project. I'm trying to build different scenarios with respects to resources and time. I have around 100 activites. I've set Original Duration and Budgeted Labour units. When i use Shift+F9 i stil...

Jan 6, 2014

Driving Predecessor(s) Report

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Is there a report in P6 that will identify which predecessors are driving the successor activities?  Can't seem to find it in the "built in" reports.

Jan 6, 2014

Resource Usage Spreadsheet

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Hi everyone, My Resource Usage Spreadsheet is not editable, it inactive! The schedule havent updated yet, even i have got this issue for a new created schedule, any advise is appreciated.   Nikan.

Jan 7, 2014

ask for some books

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Hi Actually,I found these books very practical and impressive, but in my country i can not reach them. If any body have these please send them to my email address below:   Links:   Thank you for your concideration  

Jan 7, 2014

Renaming/Changing Resource ID

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Hi All, I am trying to find a faster way to change/rename exsisting resource id's (about 500). I have tried import/export but that does not seem to change the resource id. And it seems that this cannot be done by global change either. Any assitance w...

Jan 7, 2014

User-defined Fields

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Hi,A question about user-defined fields.I've created a number of UDF's, some of them being of the Integer or Number type.How do I prevent these types from summarizing on parent/WBS-level above, e.g. if writing "2" for one activity and "7" for another...

Jan 7, 2014