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Using Primavera outside of network

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Hi planners,Two question about using Primavera outside of the network. I have SQL 2012 express edition running on a server and when I login from inside of the network everything wors fine. But when I try to login from outside of the network, I get th...

Jun 26, 2015

Time Impact Analysis Schedule

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Hello,I was asked to prepare an example TIA - Time Impact Analysis Schedule in P6.To do this, I would first prepare a normal baseline schedule, and then, assign delays to certain activities and prepare a second, delayed schedule? And calculate a vari...

Jun 27, 2015

deadline column

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i am able to put in a date value to deadline column but it does not seem to affect any floats or finsih dates. how does this deadline colmun work?

Jun 27, 2015

baseline vs as built

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A while back, I was working on a claim.  Using P3, I superimposed the as built schedule onto the baseline schedule.  Unfortunately, I can't remember how I did it.  Any help?  Also, does Suretrak have this function?Thanks!

Jun 28, 2015

Construction Program - Resource Planning in MS Project

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Hi All,I want to learn that how to put resources and its tracking in MS Project. I have just learnt to prepare and update the Project Schedule and its activities in MS Project. But i am not confident in Resource Planning.Can anyone help me for that ?...

Jun 29, 2015

Compare Calanders

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Hey,I want to comapare the Calanders used in to different Baseline. How can i do this?

Jun 30, 2015

Resource Assignment summary

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Dear All,After assigning a resource when I open Project - Resource assignment it is showing blank . Is there any settings that has to be changed inorder to show the resource summary ( Budgeted units) by month. Any thing related to report settings to ...

Jul 2, 2015

Project Structure in P6

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Hi AllI have a very unique scenario where we have introduced P6 in a simple form into a PMO that manages the repair and rebuild of earthquake damaged homes.Currently I have set up each address as a separate project in the EPS. I ahve done this for se...

Jul 3, 2015

fastest way of linking and search box when linking

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i have two questions about linking.. assume you have a very large schedule. 1) what is the fastest way of finding related activities and link them? lets say you have a schedule of thousands of activities and you wanted to link two activities that are...

Jul 3, 2015

P6 &SAP Integrated

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We have P6 &SAP as our integrated planning suite of systems however when we implemented the current solution we obviously did not exploit each products fundamental processes and have created our bespoke interfaces which are not as efficient as was fi...

Jul 3, 2015

Default Layout Setting for projects

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Hi, I am working in different projects at different times. And I work with different layouts for different projects. But when I close one project and open new project in Primavera P6, the new project opens in the old layout in which I was working ear...

Jul 5, 2015

Copying summary tasks

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Hi Mike, I have a schedule with a summary task with sub tasks which have been color coded .If I copy this summary task to another schedule the color coding on the individual subtask bars disappears.can you advice pleaseAlso you did mention that when ...

Jul 5, 2015

Delay by total float vs. delay by variance

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Hi All! We are using P6 in our project, one of our consultant is calculating activity delays using the variance dates (BL FInish - Finish), my point of view as a planner is the actual delays in the activity can be viewed once we run the schedule as P...

Jul 6, 2015

POLITICAL BEHAVIOURS IN OIL AND GAS PROJECTS

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Hello everyone,Please participate in my survey. Here is an anonymous link to the survey: https://warwickwmg.eu.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_8dIAkfJIh3M1QUtI am an M.Sc. Programme and Project Management student at the University of Warwick. I am conductin...

Jul 6, 2015