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Programme Forecast

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 I have been asked as a client-planner to produce an impact analysis in the graphical form of a delay which has been raised by contractor accepted by the client. Apparently what comes to mind is an S curve to forecast new completion date considering ...

Aug 14, 2018

Inexusable Delay

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Hi,How to deal with the inexusable delay if the contractor does not deserve extension of time and money compensation? I mean if the contractor does not deserve the EOTand he can not meet the completion date, what does the owner do? best,Muataz

Aug 14, 2018

Cash Flow report without resource loading in P6

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Hi,How Can I prepare a monthly cash flow report(Budgeted vs Actual) without resource loading in P6, only by putting the budget against each activity?Thanks in advanceTony

Aug 15, 2018

[Q] Changing External Project Relationship to another project?

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Hi there everyone.  Most of the program I did and managed for several years are usually incorporated in a single master program so its very seldom (and been a while) that I had to use external logic between 2 or more projects.So my situation:Project ...

Aug 15, 2018

Retaining Activity ID logic

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I need some help please. I have two seperate schedules linked together by activity ID's, but on a monthly basis I will need to update and produce copy files and re-write the links because they are not retainied. The Project ID changes but not the Act...

Aug 15, 2018

Submittals, Resubmittals, and More Resubmittals

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Hello,The project I am working on has been bogged down during preconstruction and the Owner has directed us to add resubmittal activities for each submittal that had a revision.  Unfortunately, that is more or less all of them, and the previous sched...

Aug 17, 2018

Baseline in Primavera

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I have been trying for the last hour to update a baseline schedule, but everytime I assign it to my current schedule the baseline dates are incorrect. Even when I delete the baseline I still have a baseline start, finish etc. I've tried creating a ne...

Aug 17, 2018

converted PowerProject programme mixed duration formats

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I have converted a Powerproject file to msp, however the duration & total float formats are mixed, ie some are "15 d" and some are "3 w". I cannot see where you can change them all to days?? Andrew

Aug 17, 2018

Piping activities

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Hello friends... Can anyone provide me the activity details of a gas field compression piping as urgent. I’ll be oblized to get any feed back regarding construction plan for a piping project. Any additional guidelines or job knowledge also will highl...

Aug 18, 2018

Preferred progress Measurement Technique

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Hello I would like to solicit advice on preferred progress Measurement technique in P6. Pros and cons of physical vs duration etc. Would it.make sense to build resources loaded schedule (labor non labor) if the duration is 15 months. Which method wou...

Aug 20, 2018

PP Project Controls Gathering No. 02 (Motherwell, Scotland)

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[[wysiwyg_imageupload:5736:]]Meeting Number 002Location: Maxim 3, Parklands Avenue, Eurocentral, Motherwell, ML1 4WQObjective for the Gathering: Simply a social networking opportunity for like-minded people. Topics:Informal IntroductionsOpen Discussi...

Aug 22, 2018

Resource loading challenge

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Here's the challenge...You have 10 activities in your schedule.  They are all resource loading (not necessarily the same resources).  They have a 'prioritisation' code allocated to determine the sequence of preference for resource levelling.  There a...

Aug 22, 2018

P6 R17 licenses

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Hello Planners,I cannot have an answer from Oracle-Primavera people; I hope (I know) that PPlanners will be more reactive!One customer of mine is willing to use P6 with 5 - 10 schedulers and 10 - 20 viewers (people who need to display P6 projects on ...

Aug 23, 2018

Baseline data linked to Activity ID

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It seems that Activity baseline data is connected to "task_code" when it used to be connected to "task_id" in the past.  That used to mean that you could change what we see as the "Activity ID" and P6 still kept the relevant baseline data (dates etc)...

Aug 23, 2018

Overall % Complete

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If my schedule is set to fixed units, how do I get it to show a overall percent complete?

Aug 23, 2018

Earned Value Help

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Can someone explain to me this situation :Is it possible to have  dropping  SPI for last 3 periods and the progress actual curve trailing on the slightly above late curve line? The forecast curve continues to show possible improvement starting from t...

Aug 24, 2018

Not copying across the A into Excel

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HiHopefully a quick easy questionsI'm copying across activities from P6 into Excel. However, for a couple of the activities, it's not copying across the A?I have tried different copy and paste options into excel, but no joy. Any ideas? RegardsPhilip

Aug 28, 2018