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Progress reporting - customise/define time intervals

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Hi all,I want to produce a progress report (showing a resource in time) for periods starting on the 21st of every month and ending on the 20th of the next month. Is there a function where you can define this kind of timeperiods or intervals?Thx,TRGer...

Mar 7, 2013

Advise please -Software selection for a client

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We have a UK client that is considering investing in some new planning software, and has asked for some advice on which to go for. They currently have 80 or so live projects of between 1k and 5k activities each, all fully resourced. Soon they will be...

Mar 7, 2013

Crashing the project Schedule

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HiI have a schedule which is resourced and I wish to do the following:I want to crash a section of the works, so I want to indicate an increase in resources and inherently the reduction in duration. I am using Primavera P6.To give you a background of...

Mar 7, 2013

Bring Your Own Device: The New Trend

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Hi Guys, Is anyone else experiencing the wave of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) into project management? http://ow.ly/iv7yc Emily

Mar 7, 2013

Network Diagrams

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I know somebody is going to come along and say "just press this button", but where can I view Network Diagrams Ronan

Mar 8, 2013

Custom fields exporting(urgent)

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Can custom fields be exported ? almost 80% of my current project has been made with custom fields and global changes attached to it. if i want to use this project elsewhere i need to export the file but i need a way to export custom fields with it to...

Mar 8, 2013

Using global change to change activity name

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I mistakenly typed a contractors name in the activity name as rockstad instead of rokstad.  I have been trying to put in a global change for this but I cannot get it right.  The mistake appears approximatly 300 times.    Can anyone tell me how to do ...

Mar 8, 2013

Different Durations for Activities & WBS

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Hello EVerybody,Hope everybody were doing well.I have a small complexicity while doing a schedule. When some activities entered under a WBS with proper durations and relationships.But after scheduling, I found the WBS durations are less than the proj...

Mar 8, 2013

Skills & Multi-Resources

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It seems that if I create a Multi-Resource which contains skiils, when assigning the M-Res to an activity the quantity of the skill will be reset to 1. For example if I have M-Res 1 comprised of 1 Res A and 2 Res Skill 1, when I assign it to an activ...

Mar 9, 2013

Project Time Management Certificate (PTMC) launched in Australasia.

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We are pleased to be part of the team launching the Project Time Management Certificate (PTMC) in Australasia. Our first workshop will be held in Canberra as part of the Project Governance and Controls Symposium on the 9th & 10th April: Project Time ...

Mar 10, 2013

Summarizing Total Slack

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I'm looking for a way to summarize the total slack of my project.Does MSProject have a way to calculate average or net of my 200+ tasks total slack?

Mar 10, 2013

Construction sequence for a steel building?

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Can anyone please help me out with the construction sequence for a substructure (Pile foundation) and superstructure of a 13-storey steel building? The substructure should please include, excavations & foundations, drainage and external works. And th...

Mar 10, 2013

In Actual Duration column Overall duration is showing less

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Hi,   I have Master schedule of Project and monthly tracking, updating project, In my project I have inserted columns: Baseline duration, Baseline start and finish, Actual duration and actual start and finsh, In actual duration column overall actual ...

Mar 11, 2013

How Finish Date in P6 is computed?

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[[wysiwyg_imageupload:1556:]]I'm just new to P6 and has lots of questions. I hope you guys are patient for me. I know how "BASE %" is computed but not the "Finish". This is not resource and cost loaded. Purely duration. Row "Act % Comp" is manually c...

Mar 11, 2013

p6.R7 Price/Unit1,2, and curencies

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Dear Master planners, I wanna to load on my schedule the project ressources where some ressources have two prices (local curency and 2nd currency), is it possible to use Price/Unit for the local curency and price/Unit2 for the 2nd curency? or what is...

Mar 11, 2013

WBS

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Hi, Can someone please help me. I am looking for a WBS process flow. Our company is implementing the ISO9001 system. I am tasked with generating all the procedures and workflows for planning. I have been doing this for years but have never had to put...

Jan 10, 2013

Actual cost progress on P6

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All, I have a broblem managing actual costs on P6. When I create a new schedule, and after having assigned to each activities an expense (or a non labor resource), i try to track the progress on the S curve. My problem is given by the fact that durin...

Jan 10, 2013

Resource Dictionary in P6

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Hi all, Im aware this is going to sound like a really stupid question - probably beaciuse it is - but I dont know the answer so here goes! I have started working for a new company where they want me to create a resource profile for all projects. The ...

Jan 10, 2013