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Sample project data for EC

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Can anyone email me an xer of the sample files for E&C, P6 v7? I'm having problems installing from the jar files. TIA-Carey

Nov 7, 2015

Problem with resource after reinstalation. P6 'stand alone'

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Good evening to All. I work on "stand alone" version of P6. After reinstalation i have problems with resources. I have created for my schedule labour resource with "default units per time" = 99/day. I have assigned it for few activities, put a number...

Nov 7, 2015

Activity classification for heavy infrustruction projects

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I'm looking for a standard as a base in order to establish an activity classification system for heavy infrustructure works.The target will be to conect accounts, wbs, reporting and cost control.I have revies the Masterformat system but it is based m...

Nov 9, 2015

Assigning task durations

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Hello, I am a beginner with Premavera. I work by exporting/importing Excel files.I would like to assign my tasks a fixed/constrained duration. The purpose is to position these taks in my schedule only using this duration and one relationship (linking...

Nov 9, 2015

Installing Primavera v6.82 on Windows 10

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Folks, I have Windows 10 and want to install Primavera v6.82 Standalone on to the laptop, does anyone know of any issues doing this? Terry

Nov 12, 2015

Using Transpose for Project Management?

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Hey!What do you guys use for Project Management? Scheduling? Keeping track of clients?Have any of you tried using Transpose? or other similar apps?www.transpose.com www.workflowy.comwww.asana.com Would love to hear some thoughts! David

Nov 13, 2015

Actual labor units in activity usage spreadsheet

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Good Day P6 Users,I have a project which started in March and I just completed October update.I am copying units from activity usage spreadsheet to Excel to create a graph and I noticed that actual units distribution varies when I do some modificatio...

Nov 14, 2015

FIDIC clause 20.1

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Hi Everyone Would notice legal and acceptable to the Employer / Board or a Court if a Contractor serves a notice to the Employer under FIDIC clause 20.1 for delay that has not yet occurred but likely to occur. Cheers Tanveer

Nov 15, 2015

Tower crane hook analysis in Powerproject?

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Hi,is anyone aware of a simple method of calculating a crane hook analysis on Asta Powerproject?i have a basic spreadsheet which works but with more resource now being put into asta programmes i'm looking for an easier option.

Nov 16, 2015

Step for preparing EPCC Project Schedule and Monitoring method

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Dear all,Recently I've been assigned to prepare the project schedule for EPCC project for my company.Before this, I'm only involve in Hook-up & Commissioning project where the schedule and monitoring is kind of straight forward comparing to EPCC proj...

Nov 16, 2015

Time Impact Analysis

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Members,I’ll start of thanking anyone in advance for reply to my post below.This started as a discussion between my boss and I, in respects to a TIA (time impact analysis) and what should we monitor against, either Dates (Early start/finish) or TF (T...

Nov 17, 2015

After importing xer file, what scheduling options are inherited?

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I recently imported an xer file from a client into Primavera on my laptop (standalone v15.1 SQLite). When I imported the same xer file to another computer (using standalone v15.1 on Microsoft SQL server), the scheduling options that imported where di...

Nov 17, 2015

BL1 Total Float Calculation Issues

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I am currently having issues with the value that is displayed in the BL1 Total Float column. I can snap a baseline of the current project and this column will show a different value of than what the live project file shows. For example :  Activity ha...

Nov 17, 2015

Using P6 Database in Excel

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Hello All, I'm trying to have p6 data in excel for various reporting purpose. Instead of copy pasting i decided to use Microsoft query to access the p6 database tables.I'm having problems to identify the specific tables i need to use. I found Task ta...

Nov 18, 2015

Individual day calendars causing negative float in P6 V8.2

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There is a negative float on the schedule, but there are no constraints of any kind, which I know sounds illogical but bear with me. (this includes project must finish on date). It looks like it is do with calendars.The negative float seems to be cau...

Nov 18, 2015

Primavera Newbie

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Hi Folks, I am a total newbie with Primavera and I was wondering if someone could help point me in the right direction for myself to learn. Training videos or online courses would be great.Also, I am new to this forum and was wondering if this is the...

Nov 18, 2015

Flag New Tasks Starting Next Week MSP 2010

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Hi All,As title suggests I'm looking to implement a new flag to show tasks (excluding group headers) which are due to start the next working week.I don't want to show any tasks currently in progress, jut new ones starting next working week.Any ideas ...

Nov 19, 2015

Exporting and Importing Layouts in Primavera P6 Professional

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Often you will find that the activity’s table and Gantt chart layout settings you so meticulously set up do not translate when you export your Primavera P6 Professional file. Here we show how to include the layouts in your Primavera P6 project export...

Nov 20, 2015

Strange Case of Total Float

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Hi all, I started this thread to discuss a avery strange case of total float i encountered..I had prepared a microprogram for a small section of work which I had checked all links,dates and had the correct finish date as planned with a total float of...

Nov 21, 2015