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P6 Interview Test

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I found this quite interesting. Apparently, it's a real interview test for hiring P6 schedulers. Not that this is a bad thing and you can call me old school, but I guess we no longer trust our verbal interviewing skills?  ow.ly/kVjE50v7OSI

Jul 22, 2019

Primavera Layout - Information fetch

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Hello Folks,Scenario - There are many UDFs used in different Layout. (Total Layout-2000+)User has discountinue 2 UDF and now they want to know in which layout this UDF is getting used. Is there any way to find out from backend because checking one by...

Jul 24, 2019

Earned Schedule with P6

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House,I'll like to know if anyone using the P6 has applied the principles of Earned Schedule especciall Spi(t). I will appreciate if I could be guide through please. Thanks

Jul 24, 2019

Local resources limit (for each project)

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Hi guys,I'm having several resources that are being used in different projects (same resource ID). Is is possible in P6 to set different limits  on same resource for each project?

Jul 25, 2019

Page Setup, Paper Size showing only 2 options

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Dear All,I have bought a new laptop and installed the latest version P6 18.8.In Page setup, i want to save Schedule in A3 Size but there are only 2 options available (A4 and Letter).

Jul 27, 2019

Project Scheduler - Uploading of Actuals Costs into PS8

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Hi all,We have just migrated to SAP Business By Design, and I am struggling to download Actuals Labour sts and Material/Expense Costs into PS8. Im currently doing this manually by hand, and its not a small task, trust me.We used to do this in the old...

Jul 28, 2019

Activity cost as a percentage of the Project Budget Cost

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Hi guys, I would like to express an activity cost as a percentage of the project budget cost. For example Project A - Total Cost is $5000Project A has numerous activities and I would like a Column that expresses the Cost of the Activities as a percen...

Jul 29, 2019

Engineering Sequencing

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I am trying to schedule an EPC project but I am unsure of the logic that is incorpoarted in each discipline: Process, Mechanincal, Structure/Civil, instrumentation, Electrical, and Piping. Also, how are disciplines connected to one another? If anyone...

Jul 29, 2019

Project Summary Task Displaying Inaccurate Total Slack

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Recently my project schedule started displaying the wrong total slack number. In the screenshot below it should display -47 not -33. I am using the same calendar throughout the project. Please advise![[wysiwyg_imageupload:6903:]]

Jul 30, 2019

How to Password Protect .XER file??

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Firstly, yes I searched for my question/answer and found nothing useful.  I'm working with... an "interesting" client to say the least. PDF prints of my schedule are not sufficient, and they require the .xer file that I am working with. I absolutely ...

Aug 1, 2019

Actual Finish Dates On Team Member

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Without going into the background, when using Team Member, our Task Owners often need to update their tasks on a Wednesday and they need to mark a task as finished and give it an actual finish date of Thursday or Friday, one or two days in the future...

Aug 2, 2019

Planning Level

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Hi everybody,I have always a real trouble to define the Level of my planning or to discuss a plannig with our contractor, sometimes the planning that I have to discuss for me is a L4 and for the contractor is a L3, do you have an answer ?

Jun 21, 2020

Task Name / Date used in a movie column

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Hi,I'm managing several project schedules all of which have the milestone task GoLive. I want to be able to capture the date into a movie date column I've created. Is there a way to do this via a formula or other method?Many thanks for your help. ---...

Jun 24, 2020

EOT - Covid 19

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Good Afternoon Respected Planners, I am working on EPC Project guided by FIDIC form of contract Unlike NEC in FIDIC programmes cannot be rejected by client but there is a mechanism for acknowledging the programme on receipt from contractor every mont...

Jun 24, 2020

error - user is logged on

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I am using a standalone P6 v16.2 and cannot get logged on after my computer crashed.   I keep getting error message that 'user is logged on'.Any advice on how to clear this?

Jun 25, 2020

Activity ID in Project Online

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Hi,We are developing a solution when enterprise schedules could be reported via backend from Primavera and Project Online (Enterprise Master Schedule). Our solution already works with P6 schedules and we need to add all schedules from Project Online....

Jun 26, 2020

WBS Name Maximum Characters

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Hi All,When try to import a P6 XML file, show up an error window saying "Valvue too large for cloumn WBS_Name (actuall:116, maximum :100)", Any advice on how to solve it or where can adjust my WBS name Maximum Characters. thanks and regards

Jun 28, 2020

Revised Program of Work

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Good Day,If i want to submit a revised program of work for a counstruction project witch is four months to finish, do i have to submit the remaining activities only or the full program??regards,

Jul 1, 2020