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Export MS Visio 2010 to MS Project 2010

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I am trying either import an MS Visio File into MS Project or export an MS Visio File into MS Project.  The instructions are pretty straight forward in Visio for exporting a file from Visio and the instructions read as follows: On the Timeline tab, c...

Nov 3, 2015

Task Name / Date used in a Custom Column

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Hi,I'm managing several project schedules all of which have the milestone task GoLive. I want to be able to capture the date into a custom date column I've created. Is there a way to do this via a formula or other method?Many thanks for your help.

Nov 4, 2015

Task Name / Date used in a Custom Column

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Hi,I'm managing several project schedules all of which have the milestone task GoLive. I want to be able to capture the date into a custom date column I've created. Is there a way to do this via a formula or other method?Many thanks for your help.

Nov 4, 2015

Link lines in Time Distance View

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In the project which I am working on, most of the activities have more than one predecessor/successor links(usually 5+). Also, no. of activities is 1000+. If I link all of them, the time-distance view looks much clumsy and there is no clarity of sche...

Nov 5, 2015

Preparation and Evaluation of Acceleration Schedule

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Hi All, Contractor agreed to submit acceleration schedule.What I understand about the acceleration is if the project delay is 8 months, and if Contractor agreed to accelerate in 4 months, they need to compress the schedule from 8 months to 4 months.I...

Nov 5, 2015

P6 Resource Leveling : Need Parallel Activities!

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I am trying to build and level a resource loaded schedule. A number of the activities require part-time effort, that is to say just a few hours a day over an extended period of time.  Unfortunately when I level these activities in P6, it refuses to a...

Nov 5, 2015

Calculation of budgeted units in prima vera

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Hi all,I have a building project in prima vera Orcale R8.1. I have resources of labour,Mason,Steel fixer.I know their average consumption per hour like for example,labour takes 3cft/hr for excavation.My problem is that how do implement this data in m...

Nov 6, 2015

Keeping Total Costs when Filter Applied

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Hi, I work on a number of projects that are so big I need to apply filters to them to print out obviously so I don't have to print the entire plan every time. My Problem is, when I apply a filter to the plan e.g. remove task that are 100%, the baseli...

Nov 6, 2015

Sample project data for EC

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Can anyone email me an xer of the sample files for E&C, P6 v7? I'm having problems installing from the jar files. TIA-Carey

Nov 7, 2015

Sample project data for EC

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Can anyone email me an xer of the sample files for E&C, P6 v7? I'm having problems installing from the jar files. TIA-Carey

Nov 7, 2015

Problem with resource after reinstalation. P6 'stand alone'

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Good evening to All. I work on "stand alone" version of P6. After reinstalation i have problems with resources. I have created for my schedule labour resource with "default units per time" = 99/day. I have assigned it for few activities, put a number...

Nov 7, 2015

Activity classification for heavy infrustruction projects

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I'm looking for a standard as a base in order to establish an activity classification system for heavy infrustructure works.The target will be to conect accounts, wbs, reporting and cost control.I have revies the Masterformat system but it is based m...

Nov 9, 2015

Assigning task durations

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Hello, I am a beginner with Premavera. I work by exporting/importing Excel files.I would like to assign my tasks a fixed/constrained duration. The purpose is to position these taks in my schedule only using this duration and one relationship (linking...

Nov 9, 2015

Installing Primavera v6.82 on Windows 10

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Folks, I have Windows 10 and want to install Primavera v6.82 Standalone on to the laptop, does anyone know of any issues doing this? Terry

Nov 12, 2015

Using Transpose for Project Management?

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Hey!What do you guys use for Project Management? Scheduling? Keeping track of clients?Have any of you tried using Transpose? or other similar apps?www.transpose.com www.workflowy.comwww.asana.com Would love to hear some thoughts! David

Nov 13, 2015

Actual labor units in activity usage spreadsheet

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Good Day P6 Users,I have a project which started in March and I just completed October update.I am copying units from activity usage spreadsheet to Excel to create a graph and I noticed that actual units distribution varies when I do some modificatio...

Nov 14, 2015

FIDIC clause 20.1

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Hi Everyone Would notice legal and acceptable to the Employer / Board or a Court if a Contractor serves a notice to the Employer under FIDIC clause 20.1 for delay that has not yet occurred but likely to occur. Cheers Tanveer

Nov 15, 2015

Tower crane hook analysis in Powerproject?

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Hi,is anyone aware of a simple method of calculating a crane hook analysis on Asta Powerproject?i have a basic spreadsheet which works but with more resource now being put into asta programmes i'm looking for an easier option.

Nov 16, 2015

Step for preparing EPCC Project Schedule and Monitoring method

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Dear all,Recently I've been assigned to prepare the project schedule for EPCC project for my company.Before this, I'm only involve in Hook-up & Commissioning project where the schedule and monitoring is kind of straight forward comparing to EPCC proj...

Nov 16, 2015

Time Impact Analysis

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Members,I’ll start of thanking anyone in advance for reply to my post below.This started as a discussion between my boss and I, in respects to a TIA (time impact analysis) and what should we monitor against, either Dates (Early start/finish) or TF (T...

Nov 17, 2015