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Export dates form P6 to Excel

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Hi, I m facing a problem when I exporting the  start and the finish dates from P6 to excel.It comes out with the output as text "mm/dd/yyyy" (column A)I have use the format Value (column A) to get the date with "dd/mm/yyyy" as d new column (column B)...

Mar 5, 2013

Eot

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Hi all,I have the following questions?1. Can an increase in quantities entitle contractor to EOT?2. Can a contractor lose his right if there is a delay in design drawings wnen he decided to start construction on his risk?3. Which is the best time imp...

Mar 5, 2013

Primavera P6 Database Connection Configuration Details

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Hi Guys, When Primavera P6 Professional is installed as a standalone application, it installs a copy of Oracle XE for use as its database. If for some reason you are unable to login to Primavera P6, you need to know the steps to reconfigure the conne...

Mar 5, 2013

Rebaseline issues

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All,My project has approached to 87.86%. at this point, there are some not-started activities (equipment relocation) have been decided by the End user and the management to be put out of the scope. that means I have to remove these activities from my...

Mar 6, 2013

scheduling based on resource availability

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i would like to schedule activity based on the resource activity ex, ( i have 10 activities and i have 2 crew to execute the 10 activities  so what i want is the Primavera to schedule the activities that 2 activities in parallel then another 2.

Mar 6, 2013

Print Schedul

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hello friends,i am working in a big project, so i have a big schedule.the problem now is, i need to take print of selected areas alone hiding other WBS levels.in filter i cannot extract my specific categories.is there option to hide unwanted WBS leve...

Mar 6, 2013

Portfolios and Costs

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Vladimir,how does spider handle different costs of the same material/resource in portfolios. Let's take a concrete of class 8/10 (C8/10). If for one project the cost of pouring the concrete are 53.8 euro/m3 and for another the cost is 68.99 euro/m3, ...

Mar 6, 2013

Progress reporting - customise/define time intervals

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Hi all,I want to produce a progress report (showing a resource in time) for periods starting on the 21st of every month and ending on the 20th of the next month. Is there a function where you can define this kind of timeperiods or intervals?Thx,TRGer...

Mar 7, 2013

Advise please -Software selection for a client

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We have a UK client that is considering investing in some new planning software, and has asked for some advice on which to go for. They currently have 80 or so live projects of between 1k and 5k activities each, all fully resourced. Soon they will be...

Mar 7, 2013

Crashing the project Schedule

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HiI have a schedule which is resourced and I wish to do the following:I want to crash a section of the works, so I want to indicate an increase in resources and inherently the reduction in duration. I am using Primavera P6.To give you a background of...

Mar 7, 2013

Bring Your Own Device: The New Trend

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Hi Guys, Is anyone else experiencing the wave of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) into project management? http://ow.ly/iv7yc Emily

Mar 7, 2013

Network Diagrams

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I know somebody is going to come along and say "just press this button", but where can I view Network Diagrams Ronan

Mar 8, 2013

Custom fields exporting(urgent)

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Can custom fields be exported ? almost 80% of my current project has been made with custom fields and global changes attached to it. if i want to use this project elsewhere i need to export the file but i need a way to export custom fields with it to...

Mar 8, 2013

Using global change to change activity name

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I mistakenly typed a contractors name in the activity name as rockstad instead of rokstad.  I have been trying to put in a global change for this but I cannot get it right.  The mistake appears approximatly 300 times.    Can anyone tell me how to do ...

Mar 8, 2013

Different Durations for Activities & WBS

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Hello EVerybody,Hope everybody were doing well.I have a small complexicity while doing a schedule. When some activities entered under a WBS with proper durations and relationships.But after scheduling, I found the WBS durations are less than the proj...

Mar 8, 2013

Skills & Multi-Resources

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It seems that if I create a Multi-Resource which contains skiils, when assigning the M-Res to an activity the quantity of the skill will be reset to 1. For example if I have M-Res 1 comprised of 1 Res A and 2 Res Skill 1, when I assign it to an activ...

Mar 9, 2013