Can someone tell me what is the best way of creating repeat activities in P6 V7, i have 2500 columns that i am constructing and i need some form of testion on all of them, i dont wish to write 5 activities of testing per column repeated 2500 times, i...
By insistent and popular demand, Snow White waved goodbye to her healthy sextuplets and returned to the daily grind of earning a contracting crust in the Oil & Gas Industry.Life had been good to Snow White. She had come in from the cold and settled u...
Dear All,My Baseline schedule got approved by the client and I’ve created the first Current Schedule. I'd like now to create a S-Curve showing the Early and Late from the baseline and the actual and forecast from the current. How is this done in P6??...
Dear All, Is it possible to change the resource type after assigning the resources to the activity. My problem is that when I export resource loaded schedule from P3 to P6,the type of resources only to be modified. Is there an easy way for that? Rega...
So I am ready to make my first update of the schedule in P6. My current data date is January 15th and I need to shift it to January 31st. I have collected actual and new forecast dates for the activities within that period and I would just like to kn...
Dear All,For the schedule when I import it to my P6 system and try to schedule it by F9 the original duration is changed to the Original duration *40. I did check the options before I hit F9 same what I have been using with other schedules..Why that’...
Dear Experts, I just want to know the right procedure of updating the baseline program by weekly and monthly. I am not sure if it is right to run the program on its current date prior for submission to consultant or am i going to put only the actual ...
Dear Seniors, I am new in Planning. Can you please guide me. What is the best way to measure progress at WBS level and Job level on a project having 500+ activities and 26 WBS, without cost/ resource loading. I selected the option "Performace % Com...
Hi, I have just added some new activities to my project in P6, the orginal project was baselined and I'm wanting to update to some my new activities in the baseline budget. The costs for the new actvities are showing in the budgeted labour cost but n...
Dear Seniors, Can you please advise how Performance % complete works in P6? Thanks Regards, BIM
Hi PP members, I have just entered a project into P6 which is about half way completed. I need to create the baseline for the projects mid way position. To do this i created a new baseline based on the current project, but when I display the baseli...
Hi I am facing a problem to calculate CPI for my project ...Project have 3000 Engineering activities but I have 3 datas only Project management budget - which is not in my schedule Support activities - which is not in my schedule Engineering Budge...
When yo do Tools->Update Progress in P3, all your highlighted activities get actualized automatically. I did the same in P6, but the activities didn't get actualized automatically. Can anyone tell me if I'm missing any step or if I'm doing something ...
Morning all, Does anyone know how I can just print out two weekends worth of shifts without cluttering the page with the days we're not working during the week? I can't seem to find anything in the settings to allow it. I need them both on the same...
Morning all, Does anyone know how I can just print out two weekends worth of shifts without cluttering the page with the days we're not working during the week? I can't seem to find anything in the settings to allow it. I need them both on the same...
Hi:I have createrd a User-Defined field "Working Days". Now through a Global Change I want to assigne "Orignal Duration" to User-Defined Field "Working Days". For example Orignal Duration = 10d, then after Global Change Working Days becomes Working D...
Hi there, I was wondering if the strcuture of each forum topic couldbe broken down: i.e. forum topic: Primavera Version PM5 / PM6 Baseline Knowledge Constrainsts ... ... Database Set-up ... I understand that we can take advantage of the 'search' ...
Good day, Does anyone have experience in the construction of a copper solvent extraction plant. Any info will be appreciated eg. WBS, Construction durations, lessons learned etc.
hai, I have a recovery program and the activities have some actual start dates. The activity duration type assigned is fixed duration and units. Resources assignments have - Preserve units, duration and units/times assigned. but when i check the re...
I have stumbled upon the same difficulty in many companies, considering releasing and approval of project documentation. I am sure that many project managers and quality managers out there have experienced the never ending printing, signing and paper...