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Stacked histogramme, can I show "actuals" on it?

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I have a nice resource histograme that shows my resource forecast stacked by a resource code that separates direct hires, contract workforce & agency staff. I can show the actual hours expended on a non stacked histograme. Does anyone know if it's po...

Jan 7, 2015

Earned Value Cost Error In P6

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Hi Everyone,  Can anybody help with a problem I'm facing witht the EV Cost in my P6 V7.0 When Updating my After assigning resource -> Modyfing Budgeted toal COst for this resource ->Dismarking Auto Compute actuals and Calculate Cost from Units -> Set...

Jan 7, 2015

P6 RESOURCE PROFILE

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Dear Planners,I would like to brought this to the group to get information how my resource graph shows like a step of a stair as per attachment. May someone could make me understand/explain how to make this profile smooth. The Time scale is in weekly...

Jan 7, 2015

Baselines & Reporting / Column Layout

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I've not used Primavera for some time, and have recently started working on a project which requires me to use P6 (r8.3).   In my previous role as a Contractor's Senior Planner, I was creating reports which were tracking the project(s) on the headlin...

Jan 9, 2015

Construction Schedule for Basic Oxygen Furnace/Steel Melting Shop

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Dear Planners,An anyone please help me out the Overall construction schedule for Basic Oxygen Furnace / Steel Melting Shop for 3.0 MTPA Iron & Steel Plant. The schedule should include excavations & foundations, Structural fabrication & erection, Mech...

Jan 9, 2015

User defined field in projects window

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HiI've tried creating a user defined field for the projects window but for some reason after I've created it and then gone to put it into the layout it doesn't show as an option in adding columns. No problems with the other windows. Is there somethin...

Jan 9, 2015

Average durations for engineering design studies

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Hi allI'm trying to put together a database of project plans in order to assess what an average or "normal" duration is for design studies within the oil & gas industry. I'm interested in the following project types - concept studies, pre-FEED, FEED ...

Jan 9, 2015

Using 2 calendars

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Hi GuysI am using two calendars, one with xmas & bank Holidays, and one with just xmas. The one with xmas + bank holidays is the project calendar and the other is applied to some of the activities. When I apply the second calendar to an activity, the...

Jan 9, 2015

Require Activity % Complete equal to Expense % Complete

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Hi to all experts, I am using Primavera P6 R8.2 Here i am working with the schedule with 4,000 activities & almost 2,200 activities i have loaded Cost though Expenses.The Problem i am facing that for example : one activity having 50% of  Activity % C...

Jan 10, 2015

Approval for Revision Programme

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Dear All,Please provide your comments regarding this matter.We have given approval for the Baseline programme & after that there was a 2 months delay had occurded due to a Employers delay event but contractor did not claim any EOT (Not submitted any ...

Jan 12, 2015

Program Duration

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Hi guys,I have created two programs in p6. Both showing activities over a certain period of time. One is showing critical activities which if can't be done during the allocated time, must be done during an allocated possesion with no allowance for ri...

Jan 12, 2015

Revision of baseline

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Residential project of P + 18 with conventional shuttering for RCC work.When i need to revise the baseline considering the actual dates when my RCC work has completed 50% i.e. 50% RCC slabs casted.WHen i am revisiong the baseline considering the actu...

Jan 13, 2015

Progress Scheduling Query

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Hello everyone, I am hoping if someone can asnwer my query regarding Schedule in p6 8.2 . I have been asked to find that on what date of the baseline the progress of the project would be 25% !I can do that by scheduling the project on different dates...

Jan 14, 2015

Slip / Delay Column

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Hi thereStill learning this MS softwareIs there a formula for calculating the slip/delay to tasks behind schedule?Ive baselined and created a planned % complete and have manually marked up progress in the % complete columnis there a formula that look...

Jan 14, 2015

Problem when importing Excel Xls file to primavera

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I have a problem when importing excel to primavera version 6.7 the issue that i export XLS file for resource assignment including Activities & Resource & resource assignment but with applying some filter , after i update the resource data and import ...

Jan 15, 2015

View roles & quantities required for future

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Hi, I have 3 projects which I have planned out, and assigned roles to the activities. What I am trying to get the P6 8.4 client to show me is a graph or just numbers of how many of each role we need for each month of the year. I have tried 'Activity ...

Jan 16, 2015