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Historical Data of Projects

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Hi,I would like to seek the expert advice here as to what sort of historical data a planner should have readily on hand by the end of a project, to better prepare for the next one. This would include things like Scope / Rates / Costs.Are there any ot...

Dec 27, 2018

How to erect a recovery schedule

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Hi every body,I'm looking for a methedology to build a recovery schedule, because we are late and a lot of gaps was noted and our contractor was very furious, what is the best solution please ?

Dec 28, 2018

Scheduling

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Can someone tell me the maximum number of activities for a single planner to maitain efficiently ?ThanksRoberto

Jan 1, 2019

Filtering activities

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Hi,In our project plan, I want to filter acitivities under Podium - Level 01 (Activties circled in attached image). Please help.[[wysiwyg_imageupload:6438:]]

Jan 4, 2019

Remaining Late Unit tabulated based on Early Finish Date

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Hi.Basically the situation is I need to do a revise programme, so I used the latest updated schedule, revise and re-baseline it. So from the revised programme, I input new resources as I need to generate S-Curve with 3 main elements which are Planned...

Jan 6, 2019

S curve Formula

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During my experience in few company, I found a kind of table to draw our s-curve, you can choose a number of period and you have the forcast corresponding of this period, the periode can be (hour, day, week or month), for exemple :Number of period 4 ...

Jan 7, 2019

Planner duties

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I want to do what is the duties of the planner in a company, what he has to do ? for exemple is it in his duties to prepare the sheet of payement 

Jan 8, 2019

GLOBAL CHANGE - WBS

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Hello frineds, Hope you all are doing great.I Have construction Acitivtes (Physical %) which are assinged with labor Units (Direct) & Cost not loaded. That means during the update of scheudle I will have BL Units, Planned Units, Earned Units. Now I w...

Jan 10, 2019

Loss of WBS Name when importing into P6 from MS Excel

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Hi I am importing an MS excel file into P6. I have no issues with this.However, when the excel file is imported, the WBS Name chages to the Master file name.I cannot sort and filter the WBS in P6 as the WBS is lost.Any help and suggestions would be a...

Jan 10, 2019

Remaining Duration - Update Automatically?

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Is there a setting so the Remaining duration updates automatically for activities which are in progress. I.e. for a 10 day duration with an actual duration of 5 days then the remaining would be calculated to 5 days?I currently have a 64 day activity,...

Jan 10, 2019

Contents of EOT claim

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Dear all,Can some one please help me with the contents for an EOT ? Below is my idea. 1. Executive Summary2. Project Details (contracting parties, time, value etc)3. Contract Representations (clauses etc)4. Scope of work5. Baseline Programme/Planned ...

Jan 13, 2019

Copying activities between projects

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What is the best way to copy a set of activities from one project and pasting them into another in P6?I have tried exporting as an XER file and importing to the file I want them pasted into. When I pick 'Add into existing Project' it doesn't allow me...

Jan 16, 2019

Estimating & Planning Man Hours

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Hi,I've recently taken a job as an Estimator/Project Planner for a Mechanical & Civil Engineering Contractor. I'm developing estimates and project schedules from 1st Principles and I was wondering if anyone could recommend a good 'rule-of-thumb' guid...

Jan 17, 2019

Glass Facade - construction sequence and timing

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Dear All With regards to when to start glass panel installation at facade, let us assume that the internal Partitions is block work and plastering can we install glass facade before starting of internal block work or it has to be installed after plas...

Jan 21, 2019

Primavera Email Statusing Service

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HiI just created EPPM18.8 environment on Oracle Cloud, all modules are working.I am not sure how email statusing service will work. What I assume that for each user assignment, system should generate an email to user that task has been assigned to hi...

Jan 22, 2019

Level of Effort Activities

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HiI added a Level of Effort activity in a WBS, as per its nature it will cover the entire project duration.Assuming that by assigning a resource this this Level of Effort activity, Project cost (User rate X Activity Duration) should be updated, but t...

Jan 22, 2019

XLSX

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Hello there!I am having issues while importing units and durations on P6, using XLSX files. When I import floating point values, it ignores the decimal point and import as an integer. For example, importing 12.05 and it writes 1,205 in the database. ...

Jan 23, 2019