Dear Valued member,I have got a serious issue when exporting P6. I am using barnd new Toshiba Tecra Z50-C laptop. And I am using P6 as standalone.Whenever I am trying to export file , my laptop get freeze. In my current employer no body use P6 and th...
Hi All, I need some assistance in regards to displaying a two weekly programme. Firstly, I have all non-working time showing but with a grey fill, how can this be made to go behind the subheadings?Secondy, is there a way to specify a time period to b...
Here we explain the bars dialog conundrum in Primavera P6 and how bar definitions with no apparent bar labels still have bar labels http://ed.gr/if2h
Hello Planners,I am trying to build risk impacted plans (both pre- and post-mitigation); everything works fine, except that I cannot have the risk summary tasks to include the risk impact tasks together with the base taskfor example: the base task is...
Hello,I'm looking to build a benchmarking template for Engineering Services ( DBM/ FEED and Detailed Engineering) for Oil and Gas projects. Does anyone have suggestions on a good temaplate or something I can reference too? The data I have to work wit...
Here's a look at Primavera P6 Professional PLF files used to save and restore activity screen layouts for schedule planning and reporting https://tensix.com/2017/11/primavera-p6-project-layout-files-plfs-explained/
Hello all - My layout has the column 'BL Project Physical % Complete', however it appears P6 won't allow me to export this column as it doesn't show up as an option in the columns when exporting. With our reporting it would be very useful to show the...
Here's a quick tip for including task notes in a Microsoft Project schedule http://ed.gr/ipa4
Here's a quick tip to display a time stamp to confirm the start and finish times of all your schedule activities in Primavera P6 http://ed.gr/irj2
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Here we look at why resilience is a more important schedule quality than critical path optimization http://ed.gr/iuji
I have some activities with zero resources against them. Basically a manufacture line, which I put a % complete against. I would like this to roll up to the summary level. Is this possible to do in P6? I've tried changing the % complete type. even us...
Will having SS & FF ties in addition to a FS tie cause inaccurate measurement of float? If you hit the tie button multiple times it adds those. Because the FS tie will always make the longest path wouldn't the SS FF float not effect the float calc ...
Here we look at the differences between project reviews and lessons learned. In short, it’s all about governance http://ed.gr/i07o
Hi anyone can help me regarding the subject matter.I got the xer.file (P6) from our subcontractor with resource loading. however, when I importing the s/c schedule to my P6 the resource loading does not match on his resources. What i'm saying is he h...
Dear Professionals,Is there a way of importing numerous XER files in P6 rather than importing one by one?
Here's a guide on how you can perform Earned Value Management using Primavera P6 http://ed.gr/i3ix
What is it?ScheduleReaderTM is an independent standalone application for viewing XER XML and XLS project schedules. It is designed to replace the way of sharing project information as PDF files.Who is using it?All the Project Managers, Engineers, Tea...
My new contractor's planners refuse to submit: (these are all stipulated in the contract)1. Recovery Programme2. Substantation to Claimed Progress in the weekly reports3. Procurement tracking system4. KPIs of the planned and actual works5. Any of my ...
Hello Everyone,Just understand where the Cost of each activity would come from if you have to Cost Load a schedule.The BOQ of a Project would have a lumpsum quantity say for example,Concrete = 250 Cu M X 350$ / Cu M = 87,500 $.And in schedule we have...