Hi Experts, I'm Facing an issue, In my schedule, even though some of the WBS summary activities are already started, they are moving with the data date of the schedule.Every time when I'm changing the data date, WBS summary activites moving forward w...
Hello Everyone,Hope everyone is in good health. A doubt. I have received comments on a schedule,The use of Finish-start relationship is prefered (FS). Avoid as much possibe use of Finish-Finish (FF) plus lags and start -start (SS) plus lags relations...
Any better logic report reports other than what is in P6? I have used this software for a long time, it seems odd the report writer is so antiquated and that there is not a default report that can be filtered on a code that simply lists the pred and...
I am currently working on a project that turns out to be around 800 pages when 'optimize height by row content' option is checked.I have to do this because the Client wants to see all activities, start dates, finish dates,original durations, free flo...
Hi guys,I have the following settings:1. In Calendar, monthly hours are 1502. Duration Format (in User Preferences) is set to Months.Now, when i enter activity duration to 1 month, I see 150 monthly hours, which is fine. But when i put 2 months dur...
Hi all, Im really struggling with SAP ByD.Firstly, I can't seem to export a Cost Breadown Structure for all 0 (zero planned Costs). SAPBYD will only export non zero Tasks.Secondly, SAPBYD, does not recognise any expenses as a remaining Planned Costs....
Hi, Good day. A previous CE is already closed with no time impact and only cost implication. The Contractor withdawn its time impact in that CE because of conflict with the PM assessment. Now, another new related CE is being prepared which includes a...
I am in version 15.2 using a SQLlite DB and I keep getting the error code:Exception EAccessViolation in module PM.exe at 0000000001E1C9A1.TCVirtualTable.RefreshAppend: TASKACTV: Access violation at address 00000000221C9A1 in module 'PM.eve' Read of a...
I am in version 15.2 using a SQLlite DB and I keep getting the error code:Exception EAccessViolation in module PM.exe at 0000000001E1C9A1.TCVirtualTable.RefreshAppend: TASKACTV: Access violation at address 00000000221C9A1 in module 'PM.eve' Read of a...
I think we cannot have an activity with 2 relationships with the same successor activity(we need to decide the best logic) but my supervisor says we can have both SS+lag and FF+lag for one successor ! How can it be possible? it should be either SS+la...
Can anyone share with me free studying material to understand the different methods of delay analysis?
Hello Gurus! I have always been taught (maybe incorrectly) and used hard constraints - Start On / Finish On - for the first and last activity in my P6 schedule. I have completely stayed away from soft constraints because I'm not familiar with them a...
Hello Again! I have another P6 question......We have set up a filter for 2 week look ahead and it works. However, instead of using the high value of DD+2W, we changed it to DD +13d (due to projects having different data dates). The problem is, we a...
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Morning all, I've recently had installed a newer (17.3) version of P6. I've got a copy of a submission from last month which I'm comparing to a submission this week. However for some reason the dates aren't coming through correctly.I've assigned th...
Is there a way to adjust the field size or font size to make the values readable in this view. The only time I can read the values is when i set the time scale to days.I want to see what I have and make adjustments before i move it over to Excel. tha...
Hello All, How would you represent Duration and Hours in Minutes. If you want the duration to be 15 minutes what would we type it in hours 0.15H or the duration is 45 min = 0.45H If we want a resource to work 1/2 an hour would we type 0.30H or if a r...
I am starting to think that what makes a great schedule is what you don't put in it - what should you leave out? for example: P6 schedule make a bad, redundant Submittals log (why do it twice) P6 should just have the dates from the log that effect d...
Hello,I am working on a project that will have multiple bid packages awarded over a 2 year period, so the schedule will grow as each bid package is awarded. The owner wants us to use earned value management. My plan is to create a high level schedule...
Has anyone incorporated a Supplier Schedule (From Microsoft Project) from a supplier, to monitor their performance and Earned Value, into their Project's P6 Schedule?Is there any tips or information, UDFs, consistency advice across formats and genera...