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Resource Assigments. Actual and Forecast, don't add up to Budget?

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Hi I'm quite new to planning / P6And have a resource assignments questionI am trying to export the1. Budgetted Units2. Actual Units3. Remaining Units I go into the Resources Assisgnemrnt Tab and select one of the above and copy the information into e...

Jun 20, 2018

Float in programme

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Dear, I have intentionally allow more time in the early stage of the programme in order to avoid early warning from the architect if there is any delay, and more tight schedule at the later stage. The progress is actually delayed at the early stage d...

Jun 21, 2018

PRODUCTIVITY STANDARDS (OIL and GAS)

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Dear All, Thank you for your support. I am creating a new resource loaded P6 (v7) Schedule for oil and gas project  and Pipeline project (KSA).Kindly help me by providing the " Labor and Non Labor - Standard Productivity Norms/ chart/excel/ " or sugg...

Jun 22, 2018

RESOURCE LOADING FROM EXCEL TO PRIMAVERA (P6v7)

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Gentlemen, I am very new to this concept. I can create schedule and can create resources and assign in P6 (individual activites) , but I heard that we can import Resources from Excel to Primavera and also Vice versa.Kindly tell me how to upload the r...

Jun 22, 2018

Need a favor from any kind professional

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Hi. Greetings to everyone. I am planning to switch to Project ( oil and gas construction). Currently I am in oil and gas maintenance. Honestly, I will be really grateful if anyone shares his project xer file to understand the project schedule. Waitin...

Jun 23, 2018

Update Baseline Button

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Hello,I am using P6 R16.2.4 version and Update Baseline Button is missing in the Maintain Baseline Window. Could you please advise how to fix it ?Thanks 

Jun 23, 2018

Full of Constraints

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As a bigenner planner, I have made a plan for a client as two projects, the start and finish dates for one of them are the actuals. whereas the start and finish dates of the other one are the planned ones, then I maintained the latter as a baseline t...

Jun 25, 2018

Cost Control

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Hello Everyone, I would like to learn more abut Cost Control. I do have experience in Cost Control, so could anyone guide me on this.I work in Oil and Gas Sector, so would liket o learn more. Note: This is not related to the topic of using Primavera ...

Jun 25, 2018

P6 with Arabic script

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Hi everyone,I have received a standard P6 v8.2 P6 XER file (encoded in ANSI).There are some arabic writting wisible in the encoding is changed to Windows-1256.Importing this to P6 v15.2 gives griberish. does not correct when font is changed to arabic...

Jun 26, 2018

Would you help the development of Project Management research?

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I am conducting a master thesis research to understand the influences of stakeholders on strategic responses considering the level of complexity in global projects. For this I am collecting answers from a questionnaire that addresses these topics. Du...

Jun 26, 2018

Cost Estimating software

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Hi all,my boss instructed me to find a good cost estimating software, mainly focused on the labour norms databases (Richardson, DACE, ...).I am looking for CostOS by nomitech and Cleopatra.Have somebody of you reference or can provide me a feedback a...

Jun 27, 2018

Progressing multiple activities

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What is the easiest way to progress a large number of activities in one go ?(for example progressing all erect scaffolding work to 100% in the pre-shutdown phase of a turnaround)I am familiar how it works to progress one activity, but manually clicki...

Jun 27, 2018

Stop activity splitting over a non-working period

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Hi,I have an activity 4hrs in duration that needs to be completed within one working period (08hrs - 17hrs). Currently I have it on a calendar with non-working time (17hrs - 08hrs). If the activity starts too late (say at 15hrs on day one) it is spli...

Jun 27, 2018

Landscaping Rates

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Hi There, I am currently working on an external works programme and was wondering if anyone could send an excel file with landscaping rates to my email address - [email protected] help would be greatly appreciated! 

Jun 27, 2018

Updating the baseline

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Hi there! I wanted to know if there is a process to update the baseline or the current program by making changes in either of them. For example, if I have made changes in my baseline few months after the commencement of the project, is there a way fr...

Jun 28, 2018

Resource limit

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Hi!I want to know if there is a process to put a cap on the resources/month. For instance, I want to use only 1 million/month and stretch my activities accordingly. Is there any way, primavera can do this or indicate where I need to make changes? Tha...

Jun 28, 2018

P6 - Baseline Dates Broken

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Hi All,I've come across a bit of an issue and need help resolving it.I have a baseline assigned with 0% progress, I have updated the baseline with additional activities. After placing these new activities in the BL, I did all the checks to see that t...

Jun 28, 2018