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Project Management Applications

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Hi Guys,I'm working on a new project management app and I'm looking to understand more about the issues faced by PMs today and the tools that you useIt would be amazing if you could spend 5/10 minutes filling out this short survey for me to help with...

Jul 24, 2015

loosing monies when i 100% complete

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loosing monies when i 100% complete. As above I have a fully loaded P6 plan. once I claim a activity by clicking the start and finish activities. The monies of my resource tab disappear. I now it will be a simple fix but how do I stop this happening.

Jul 24, 2015

loosing monies of activity tab when i complete a task

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As above ,I am loosing monies of activity tab when i complete a task. I have a P6 loaded plan ,that once I have completed a task the monies auto disappear of the activity resource tab. If I complete the task ,the monies drop of the resource tab. How ...

Jul 24, 2015

Advice on Histograms / Resources for Training People.

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I am working on a project which is tracking the progress of training courses being delivered to many organisations. The WBS is split down thus:  Region > Organisation> Course I have assigned to each Course 3 activities. Passed (a bar from project dat...

Jul 24, 2015

Disadvantages of P6 EPPM. HELP!!!

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My company is in the process of migrating our primavera product from the desktop version to the web version (EPPM). We do a lot of our project for USACE and they usually require us to convert our XER file into SDEF format. With P6 pro, we had no prob...

Jul 24, 2015

Total Float Project Vs Total float activities

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Hi,I have a question, In my program the total float for total project is -587 days, but in my activities the maximum that I have is -125, I recently change from P6 V. 8.2 to 8.4. Regards

Jul 24, 2015

Revised Planned Percentage

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Hello Gents/Ladies, When you are on Contractor side when can you allowed to change the planned %. As on a Contractor side you would issue a planning package which comes with a S curve which says that that at this week you would complete this much % o...

Jul 26, 2015

Production Rates in Western Australia

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I am working on a tender and currently looking for standard industry norms / production rates in WA / Perth. The key rates i need is for Bulk Excavation, Diaphragm wall constuction, Form work, Concrete etc. Appreciate any feedback. Thanks

Jul 28, 2015

Labour units problem while converting form P3 to P6

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Dear all,While converting P3 file to P6, a problem is faced that Manhours assigned to activities as Labour unit in P3 formate becomes Non labour units after convertion to P6, which crearts problem in calculation of Project Progress/Level-1 Summary as...

Jul 28, 2015

Provision Scenario in P6

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Dears,First of all, I know my question is not logical but we have no choice and should do as well.In order to update plan in the data date, we should report to different shareholder with difference point of view and concerns.So far we provide several...

Jul 28, 2015

Can't add new Bars

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For some reason, the option to Add Bar and Add Bar Below is greyed-out and not available to me! Can anyone tell me what I've done and how to correct it? thanks

Jul 28, 2015

My posts

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When I click My posts I always end up at /myuserpoints link instead of /myposts, just take a look at the current address and you will see reference to /myuserpoints instead of /myposts.  I believe both links shall be available.I wonder how many do kn...

Jul 28, 2015

Level activities with small duration (<1 hour)

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Hi,I have this situation:Duration activities are  1 hour in level activities to share (corect) resources[[wysiwyg_imageupload:2530:]] Duration activities are  30 min ; in level activities to share resources ; incorect results.[[wysiwyg_imageupload:25...

Jul 29, 2015

custom page break when converting to PDF

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Hi I was wondering if it was possible to insert a page break before converting to PDF.Currently my schedule runs over 4 A3 pages but the pages are split in the middle of the WBS.in one case the Heading of one WBS is at the bottom of the page with the...

Jul 29, 2015

Career in Al Baraka Oman

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I am currenly pursuing a leading role in L&T in Integrated Project Planning of around 100-300 million $ EPC projects in India. How good would be a opportunity to pursue the same role in Al Baraka Oman. Is the company good? Learning is good?Or a jump ...

Jul 30, 2015

The WBS matrix software

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JyM engineering presents the WBS matrix, to create a Work Breakdown Structure with the 3D WBS method.http://jym-engineering.blogspot.fr/p/the-wbs-matrix.html

Jul 31, 2015

Missing Level of Effort bar in P6 Professional Gantt Chart Solved

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For the longest time, Primavera P6 Professional has been shipping with a defect in one of the sample layouts. The configuration of the Remaining Level of Effort bar in the Classic Schedule Layout is incorrect. The result of this is the bar failing to...

Jul 31, 2015

P6 xml including all fields

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Hello, I have created an application that takes P6 schedules as an input using an xml parser, only to realise that the xml export from P6 does not contain all of the fields that are available in the xer export. Is there a way to export all fields in ...

Aug 1, 2015

MS Project 2013 - not showing Late Tasks when tasks are updated

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Hi,I have a production schedule for a project on a customers site. Our engineers work to my schedule and report back progress on a daily basis. The schedule has a baseline set and I update this schedule daily and produce a report which should highlig...

Aug 2, 2015

DNA?

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Did you know that the alternative use of the letters DNA is the National Dyslexic Association?

Aug 2, 2015