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Simple planning level-0 connected to Outlook

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Hello,I'm managing a programme of 30 projects and I'm using a macro planning which highlights project phases (Initiation, Design, Execution, Closure) and sanctioning Milestones + Reviews.I would understand how to ease my job of programme coordinator ...

Oct 8, 2018

Change Duration when adding extra Resource

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Hi All,What settings must I use to get P6 to change Activity Duration when I add extra Resources?Lets say I have I have a 10 day activity with 1 Resource on it and 100 units, when I add an additional same Resource I want the duration to reduce to 5 d...

Oct 8, 2018

On-Going Progress Gap

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Hi Guys,Just like to know why is there a gap in updating or progressing on an activity on on-going projects? Also is there a way to mitigate this?Another, can you guy provide reference guide in making or doing an Delay Impact Schedule?Thanks in Advan...

Oct 9, 2018

Rebooting my planning career

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23 years ago I left the construction industry & became a fire fighter. I’m now a mid level senior officer. I’m considering starting up a one man construction planning consultancy. If it works out I may leave the fire service at some point. I complete...

Oct 11, 2018

How do you show 3 baselines on one bar?

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HiMy manager has asked me to show 3 baselines on one bar. Shown me the output One bar for one activity, with 3 colours per baseline overlapping to show delay - rather than the usual stack arrangment

Oct 12, 2018

Resource Linking - good/bad?

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I'm kicking off the planning of a 200,000 hr shutdown due in 12 months. Previous shut downs here have used extensive resource logic between physically unrelated activities as a way of manually resources.I'm not a fan of resource linking, I'd rather u...

Oct 15, 2018

Show Completed Task as Critical

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Hello,I'm looking to analyse the critical path of a part-completed programme for a project, however, tasks that are 100% complete or have been progressed do not show up as critical.Is there any way of showing progressed items as critical without havi...

Oct 15, 2018

Starting career in planning/cost control

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Hi,I'm currently a junior civil engineer (2-3 years experience) working for a consultancy, and have developed in interest in project planing/cost control as a future career. I'm just wondering what can I do to become more knowledgeable in this area?I...

Oct 15, 2018

Combination relationship

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In Primavera P6 we can have a combination relationship i.e an activity can have same predecessor twice, once with Start-Start relationship & another with Finish- Finish relationship. Is it a good practice to have such type of combination relationship...

Oct 15, 2018

Import problem Primavera Risk Analysis mpp file

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When I import an MS project file, the duration of the activities are divided by 3.For example an actitivity has in MS Project a duration of 20 days and after import in PRA only 7 days.I tried to change the import parameters and match the number of ho...

Oct 16, 2018

eBooks for P6 and/or General CPM Scheduling

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Hello,I am taking a 17 hour plane flight and thought a good scheduling eBook would either make some nice light reading, or an effective sleeping agent.Does anyone know of a good eBook about CPM scheduling, or something particular to P6?I'm hoping for...

Oct 17, 2018

Integrated Programme Development

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Dear all,I took on an EPC programme as a client-planner with three different contractors on it. At the end of the month, these three contractors submit their programmes separately, and I analysed and produced various reports for Senior Management cur...

Oct 17, 2018

Adjust start date when schedule has logic applied to it

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Hello everyone, I am a construction student using asta to build a schedule for a project I am working on. Now, I have built the entire schedule start to finish, but unfortunetly I have forgotten to add my preconstruction tasks, which, are required fo...

Oct 17, 2018

PSA : : Primavera P6 Professional 18.8 - XML Import Bug

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OK, so we had this problem importing XML files into P6 and it stumped us for a while. It turns out it was a bug in P6 Professional version 18.8 and there is a patch to fix it http://ed.gr/blcwhI hope this helps other folks that have been struggling w...

May 20, 2019

Autoincrement of Project ID

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I see in P6, based on the default settings at project level, the activity ID gets incremented automatically when we copy an activity. Is there similar setting somewhere for auto incrementing of Project Number at EPS level when we create a project, pl...

May 20, 2019

Autoincrement of Project ID

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I see in P6, based on the default settings at project level, the activity ID gets incremented automatically when we copy an activity. Is there similar setting somewhere for auto incrementing of Project Number at EPS level when we create a project, pl...

May 20, 2019