FS
Forum TopicHow to default (FS) to start new activiy 1 day after finish date. ex. june 18 is finish date and the new actvity must start june 19. Thanks,
Jun 18, 2013
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Absence of proper Longest Path in a Schedule with many milestones
Forum TopicWe are making a schedule for a building with many contractual milestones which are given constraint "finish on" in P6. These milestones are linked with each other with FS relationship and lag 0. However, with this arrangement the schedule is not show...
Jun 18, 2013
Acumen Annual Summit - Schedule and Risk Analytics Conference - Houston, TX
Forum TopicAcumen is hosting their third annual user summit on Sept. 30 - Oct. 2 in Houston, TX. Join us for three days of networking, knowledge sharing, and learning for Acumen software users and project management professionals alike. This year's conference ...
Jun 18, 2013
Training and Certification
Forum TopicPresently I am in Kuwait, please advise me that where I can get training and certification of Spider Project Professional in kuwait. Regards
Jun 19, 2013
Full Preparation Course for Planning Engineers- Free
Forum TopicHi every one,I am preparing a Full Preparation Course for Planning Engineers, and i offer my course free of charge for whoever do not have money to pay the fees. And i made the course fees already very low rate (150 $) for those who can pay.Please ta...
Jun 19, 2013
Limit Layout to EPS Node
Forum TopicHello,I'm just wondering if there's a way to limit access to certain layouts when working on a project in a particular EPS node. E.g. I have different EPS Nodes for Client programmes, My programmes, and Subbie programes. I also have different layouts...
Jun 20, 2013
difrence between orignal duration & at completion duration
Forum TopicDear all I had problem with the duration which i was working , there is what is diffrence between orignal and at copletion duration , how we can use it in primevera thanks you all
Jun 21, 2013
Planning Outages in P6
Forum TopicPlanners,I work in the overhead line transmission industry, this mainly depends on client outages in order for us to carry out work.So basically as soon as an outage begins we can start work on the refurbishment of conductors etc, we have a set time ...
Jun 21, 2013
I KILLED My Boss (on paper, that is)
Forum TopicNot sure which category to place this under ... as it is definitely light-hearted ... but -- I have written a murder mystery about a Project Controls Director who kills his superior, the Vice President of Operations. It takes place in a construction ...
Jun 21, 2013
PMI Scheduling Webinar for PDU: How to Compute Critical Path Drag
Forum TopicI just received the blast email (reprinted below) from PMI's Scheduling Community of Practice announcing the webinar that I will be doing for them on July 10th. It is FREE to all PMI members, but you have to register for it. Last I heard (about two w...
Jun 22, 2013
New Project Manager
Forum TopicDear AllI want to share my views and your comments as well. We have a new project manager after a gap of more than one month. The project at status the moment1- Progress percentage around 53%2- 13 months behind the schedule3- Project r...
Jun 22, 2013
Resolving conflicts, when working with portfolios
Forum TopicDear all,I am checking the work with portfolios.As far as I understand, the mechanism is as followsWhen you add project to portfolio and then consolidate projects, Spider considers all object except activities to be the same in different projects as ...
Jun 23, 2013
Earned Value Labor Units
Forum TopicHi Guys, I have got a problem with Earned Value Labor Units in one of my projects new activities, that Earned Value Labor Units is not getting calculated according to activity %. Please suggest the possible reason, to fix this error. Regards, Abi...
Jun 24, 2013
Budgeted Labour Cost in Assignments - Average Only?
Forum TopicWe have different labour rates in different financial years and we need to extract accurate time-phased costs from P6 (Release 7 SP4). The labour rates per financial year have been setup against the resource for the applicable time period. When we vi...
Jun 24, 2013
P6 - Estimate To Complete
Forum TopicHello I am trying to use the Estimate to complete (ETC) as my Labor Units for my resource loading histograms. However, when I go into my reports I am unable to create a report using ETC (only allows me to pick Remaining Units). Any suggestions? K
Jun 24, 2013
How to use Work Products and Documents in Primavera P6
Forum TopicHere's asimple tutorial on how to use Work Products and Documents in Primavera P6 http://ow.ly/mmw34
Jun 25, 2013
Different Display of Project End Dates when opening same file
Forum TopicHi all,I am presently faced with the following issue:The supplier has submitted a MSP file to both me and another planner. However, when we open the file, both of us see different Project completion dates. Both our settings and file source being the ...
Jun 26, 2013
Equivalent to Wbs summary in Ms project
Forum TopicHi folks is the there any equivalent to wbs summary (of primavera p6 ) in Ms Project 2007 ? if yes , how to to do it ? Regards Kamel
Jun 26, 2013
Equivalent to Wbs sumary in Ms project
Forum TopicHi folksis the there any equivalent to wbs summary (of primavera p6 ) in Ms Project 2007 ?if yes , how to to do it ?RegardsKamel
Jun 26, 2013
Incorporating A new Time Schedule to your old one
Forum TopicI have this problem at work: I have my time schedule which is updated up to data date, now a new area is going to be added to project scope which the engineering and construction activities have been started 2 months before. now thay ask me to prepar...
Jun 26, 2013