Hi I have an urgent problem as I am also new using this tool. I am working on a project and I hit myself of a problem.I have 3 milestones : MIL10, MIL11 and MIL12. they are linked sequentially and they also have a "finish on" constraint. But the pred...
Hi I would like to export activities with steps including step names and status of steps in to excel spreadsheet. While Actiivty steps export provides infor about steps completed, in progress, etc. I am looking more on the lines of exporting activiti...
Hi all,Any recommendations for a good team management software/application? It must include team management and task delegation and progress features?apprciated your helpmuataz
Dear All,I need a compreshensive narrative report for the baseline schedule, which inlude detailed understanding for anyone involved in the project. Can anyone please share any sample format/templates for the report. ThanksMuhammad Zahidzahidmallick1...
Hi- any know how to set weekly s curves for progress reporting? Thanks
People share ideas and projects on a daily basis. However, most of them vanish because these people do not have the resources to pursue those ideas or projects. In today's connected world, we have alternatives on how to attain funds. The first step ...
Hi,Is a negative schedule variance indicates that the project will not finish on time?In my opinion NO. because, as of the reporting period, critical items planned values may be achieved and keeping the completion date on time. meantime few non criti...
Hi Due to policy, our contractor can not create custom calenders. However, due to the nature of the worksite (railway), activities can only occur on certain days. So my question is. How do you create a programme with correct total float. As using a 7...
I'm exporting resource assignments from P6 to Excel, updating budgeted units, actual units, and at completion units, then importing and Excel sheet into P6. Once the import is complete, I noticed that the resource has been updated based on my import,...
Hi,Does anyone know how to assign a resource for a period in the middle of a task?I have a number of tasks that are say 10 weeks long, however I would like to assign different resources to the first 4 weeks the middle 2 weeks and the last 6 weeks but...
EveningJust thought I'd better check - fairly new to P6 with a basic setup so I've simply enabled Windows' File History to backup the PPMDBSQLite.db to an external HDD on an hourly basis, thinking if there were any irretrievable mistakes, I could the...
Dear All,I'm so pleased to write here, as recommended by my ex. manager to discuss here, I really look forward to hear your advice.In brief, I'm a planning Engineer, instructor of PMP & Primavera, and I already have worked partially within constructi...
I've just written about two options on how to recover a Primavera P6 password. I'm not sure my content is welcome here in the forums, so let me know if this is a subject that you're interested in this.
Good morning,I am struggling with Primavera to Copy Paste a schedule. When I select paste once schedule is copied, I do not have the option to select Summary Data, when I then select ok I recieve an error that reads Item not found and it gives me an...
I'm really struggling to run Primavera P6 Job services! Primavera P6 17.12, 15.2 and 16.1 64 bit (tried all with no luck)Database: oracle 11g JSDB alias is set with pubuser credentials.When I start the Primavera P6 Job service (JDBC) it stops after 1...
When attempting to import an XER from a new version of P6 to the 8.4 version I have, I get an error stating, "The import file is invalid."I have already changed the version number in notepad. This trick only works sometimes when I import files from n...
Hi all,Im curious to know if someone could explain how to apply for the jobs advertised in the 'Jobs' section. Do I need to be a premium member or part of the Guild or Certified? As I cannot see a method of actually applying for the jobs or a link to...
Hi allI have a 30 week programme that has a 2 week shutdown over Christmas. The current week numbers in the date zone show it coming out as 32 weeks, is there any way to not show week numbers over the 2 week shutdown?ie. up to week 5, then nothing fo...
I know that this is a somewhat open ended quation but I am trying to understand how many shutdown planners should we have in our business.I am fully aware that it is dependant on many factors including:skill level of the plannerSystem health of the C...
Hi,Im having a weird issue whereby I am exporting an XER of a project that has been progressed, changing it to a .txt file then opening it in Excel to "bulk add" activity codes. I then save the file, change it back to an xer and import the project.Ev...