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Late Start and Late Finish earlier than Early Start and Early Finish

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Dear all, In a schedule that I used the same calendar for all the activities I experienced the fact that for some activities on critical path the late dates were earlier than the early dates. e.g. ES:1-MAR-2014 LS:28-FEB-2014 late start one day befor...

Mar 3, 2014

Assigning From A Sub-Selection Of P6 Resources

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It can be a real pain when trying to assign Resources to the Activities in your Primavera P6 Project when you are going to use just a handful of the large number of P6 resources that are available. Here's an article on how to assign from a sub-select...

Mar 3, 2014

Gantt chart separation of activities

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My project has several locations of work performed and I have them grouped by activity codes A,B,C... This does not appear to be enough separation for my customer.  Is there a way to insert a horizontal line to separate these activity groups?

Mar 3, 2014

Free Gantt Viewer and DCMA 14 for Primavera

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Hello Plannersi have written  an excel macro that perform the metrics for DCMA 14 ( ok only the first 10 tests), and draw a gantt Chart in Excelyou can download it in https://code.google.com/p/xer-reader/a short tutorial is available herehttps://www....

Mar 4, 2014

Primavera Update from xer file

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How could i update a primvera file from another xer file if 1- the 2 file have different wbs location (which mean than in the first xer file one level of the wbs is under wbs while in the other xer it is existing but under anther wbs )2- we donot nee...

Mar 4, 2014

Total Float

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Dear All,  I have received a shcedule from Contractor for review with activties having very high float like 260 days, 120 etc........same like free flaot is very high. Its 16 months project . Is there any standard practice limit  for activities could...

Mar 5, 2014

Relationship Logic Type

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This question may have been posted before? Does anyone know of a way to identify Relationship LOGIC TYPE (as distinct from ordinary Relationship Type; FS,SS....) I have identified 3 logic types (there may be more); Physical Logic - i.e. can not physi...

Mar 6, 2014

Design and Built

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Hello Guyz! I am new here and i found this website interesting, Below are my questions and i hope anyone could hellp me out. 1) What does the term " Design and Built Project " means? I was asked in an interview, and i don't actually know the meaning ...

Mar 6, 2014

Design and Built

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Hello Guyz! I am new here and i found this website interesting, Below are my questions and i hope anyone could hellp me out. 1) What does the term " Design and Built Project " means? I was asked in an interview, and i don't actually know the meaning ...

Mar 6, 2014

History information

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Good dayI need help. I took over from a previous planner and now they want progress on previous dates.for example they want early start cost and late start cost for a specific date in the past.Is there a way in primavera that I can recall that inform...

Mar 6, 2014

NTL constraint does not work always

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Vladimir,whilst I was looking at the subject of exceptions, I noticed, that my favorite NLT constraint  does not always work as I would expect it to.In the example below you will notice, that in the 2nd case it does not work, because the activity wit...

Mar 6, 2014

Dissertation Questionnaire - BIM & health and safety

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I am a student at Oxford Brookes, studying Project Management. The aim of this study is investigate building information modelling, to gain an understanding of its success in terms of programming & 4D - Visualisation. To assess how that relates to he...

Mar 7, 2014

Holding the activity and transferring its resources

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I am new to primavera p6. I have a question, I holded an activity i.e suspended from 9-Mar-2014 and resuming on 13-Mar-2014. Now I want to transfering resoruces for on-hold dates to another activity which will finish on 11-mar-2014. After that I will...

Mar 9, 2014

Can't write comment on feedback field

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Dear All,I have problem about PM6, before every things quite well with PM6 on my old laptop. But, after my IT installed PM6 on my new laptop, I can't write comment on feedback field, and can't adjust header/footer of report when I print reports by PD...

Mar 9, 2014

Progress checking as Physical

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Hi,I have a problem in the progress checking in P6.  I have selected the physical progress and duration type as fixed duration & units.After updating an activity with 50% progress, the peformance percentage of the activity can be calculated with EV m...

Mar 9, 2014

Error connecting to Primavera Web Services from Navisworks

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We are trying to connect to Primavera P6 V8.3(Web Services) using Autodesk Navisworks. It used to work for everyone, but is currently only working for one computer in our office. Other users are getting:An error occurred while selecting a project fro...

Jul 29, 2016

problem in p6

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hi guys ı have a problem in p6it says that untranslated ıd problem.this problem is on everywhere (on bottom, on entrance page etc...)ı put a picture of it please help me with these proble.How can ı solve this thanks[[wysiwyg_imageupload:4370:]] [[wys...

Aug 1, 2016