Hello planners Can anyone tell me what is the current best practice for controlling the resource dictionary when managing a P6 database where many contractors will be supplying updates? I will set up a complete resource dictionary of labour, plant a...
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Could someone tell me if there is a simple way of assigning a wbc to multiple tasks - I have to issue a contract programme by the end of the day and I have imported a programme without ant WBS codes in it!! Andrew
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Hi, First of all, I thanks to administrators for this site . And I saw an excel worksheet that can be connect to P6 database when p6 is closed. And you can change the resourse, wbs, etc. i dont remember all.. Have ever seen or used it? I want to try...
Greeting all :) We have just implemented the new estimating software Hard Dollar - which downloads the estimate directly into Primavera P6 v7 (at least that's version we are using). Has anyone had any experience with this software -- I am extremely ...
Hai to all, 1) If interviewer asks " what is S-Curve? " What should be our answer. I answered as weekly or monthly cash flow and he replies "it is cashflow !". 2) What is cum activity? ...
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I have an issue when importing labour units to my schedule on a weekly basis via excel, I have collected the hours against activity IDs in the schedule and each week create a pivot table in excel. I then use the vlookup function in excel to populate ...
Hi Guys is it possible to carry out detailed cost control/monitoring on a project using P6 software alone? simply we need to know the budgeted cost (as per our estimate/bid) Vs Actual cost spent at any instant of time. Actually i tried it in the foll...
Hi This question is really quite primitive but i would like to know if there are any advantages to a professional planner / scheduler if he switches from P3 to P6.what are the additional features of P6 (other than having an enterprise Environment)?ho...
Hi Everyone, I've just had job come up involving building some flats, the problem I have come accross is that during earthworks we found a underground bunkers, due to us not knowing this and the project manager not informing me. The client is now ref...
Dear All,I have a problem, The predessor completion date and sucessor start date are the same. For Example if predessor finishes on 25th Aug - 10 , the sucessor start on 25th Aug-10 instead of 26th Aug-10 with 0 days lag.I know this problem is becaus...
Resource Leveling – UnitsI am facing a problem in Primavera 6.7, in resource usage profile. I create a resource called steel and gave its unit as tones. But when I click for resource usage profile , I am getting units in “days” , can u suggest any so...
Hi guys is it possible to have two unit rates for a resource in P6. So that one is budgeted as per our estimate/bid and the other one is actual unit rate as per actual purchase. This is just to run the report of Budgeted cost Vs actual spent cost at ...
Can any one explain me what is "Progress Measurement Gate"... My Consultant sent me the comment as to "Provide Progress Measurement Gate for both Engineering & Construction".. Regards, G.Gokul
Hi,I guess there is no forum for Vico Control, so I just posted this here.I am trying out Vico Control in demo mode and I am having this difficulty, I cannot modify/create a new dependency between locations within a task.I have created a new project ...
Dear All,Pls do advice the various steps to do a what if analysis in P6.regards, Haresh Jayanth
The contractor exports (using P3e v.5) EPS level Activity Codes as Globals; We import, using P6.2.1, as .XER (code values to be updated) and although the Activity Code is in the dictionary and the assigned values are present (against each activity) t...
In P6, i want actual cost to become equal to earned value cost, How to do it by global change.