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Project scheduling with limited data

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Dear AllI need your advice rgarding following issue;I have been given a task to plan an oil refinery project and also to load the manhours.The issue here is that there is no set of approved drawings and also no BOQ.I only have drawings in soft form a...

May 9, 2012

We need planners

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Hi,My company needs 2 to 3 planners. we are based in KSA and are a contracting company. If interested please forward your resumes by contacting me.Regards,Asim

May 9, 2012

Welcome Back, Miklos!

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Hi, Miklos!  Welcome back! (I'm starting a new thread rather than hijacking the one on Critical Path Float.)Several points:I would love (LOVE!) to attend your conference in Budapest.  (If I presented, I even know what my subject matter would be: Time...

May 9, 2012

Improper Baseline Problems

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Hi friends,One of my friends gave me a Baseline programme of a running project with the following problems1. Base line is in duration percentage and he updated with physical percentage2. constraint dates are over but activity not started and still  c...

May 9, 2012

Export multiple projects to single excel file

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Hi all, Need some advice; is it possible to export multiple projects to a single excel file that I could then import to update all the projects? I have to give it to a colleugeus to update the same activity for every project so this would be really h...

May 10, 2012

Baseline to Actual Update

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Dear Experts, Situation:i am updating the program in weekly/mothly basis but i am not assigning nor maintaining the baseline for so long..the question is how can i include/assign or maintain the original baseline to the latest updated program??please...

May 10, 2012

Baseline to Actual Update

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Dear Experts, Situation:i am updating the program in weekly/mothly basis but i am not assigning nor maintaining the baseline for so long..the question is how can i include/assign or maintain the original baseline to the latest updated program??please...

May 10, 2012

Payment Application from Primarvera Ver 6

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Dear Friendshow can it be possible to make payment application from p6, i thought of one solution ie to add progress in activity and add boq amount activity by activity as a resourceis there any other solution to this problem , your kind comments wil...

May 10, 2012

Sub-Contractor Delay

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I suspect I will shortly be asked to produce a programme to aid the project team on one of our live projects in demonstrating the effect that a Mechanical and Electrical sub-contractors programme delays have had on other trades and on the completion ...

May 10, 2012

Error Check

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How do i do an Error check on Premavera P6?

May 10, 2012

update the Financial period Actual Units using an Excel spread sheet

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I would like to update the Financial period Actual Units using an Excel spread sheet.   I created a spread sheet using the export  and using it can update the Activity description but all other changes dont come through.   Would anyone have a spread ...

May 10, 2012

How can I display cost centres columns

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Hello,How can I display cost centres conlumns  in the spreadsheet? Can somebody please help me with this information? How can I display one or more cost center columnn to see witch is the cost allocated on an activity for each cost center - manpower,...

May 10, 2012

Date constraint

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 Hi friends,What will happen if the activity with start date constraint not started even after the constraint date,any thing wrong if we schedule with that constraint..?Your views are most welcome.regardsSunil

May 10, 2012

P6 % Resource Utilisation

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MS Project is very good at reporting % utilisation for resources. Does anyone know how to report on % individual resource utilisation in P6 v7. I can produce reports on say a resources monthly hours allocation, however, I can't show this as %. I.e. 1...

May 10, 2012

Time to Settle Claims Prevention

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Within Claims there is a balance between liability and quantum, has anyone had an experience in producing or working with a claims document that presents  accountability of liability and cost, in an optmal setting to give the demonstrator of burden o...

May 11, 2012

Displaying Earned Value

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I have a baselined project (using P6) with assigned progress and actuals (in labour hours) but all earned value fields show zero. Other projects with the same settings are displaying the expected EV so I assume it is not an issue based on user or ent...

May 11, 2012

Level of effort activity

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Dear All, We have a master schedule prepared for the client and internal use some 2 years back, which was not detailed much at that time, but now as the project is in full speed now we want to monitor it more deeply and want to detail the master sche...

May 11, 2012

How to become a delay analyst?

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I hope someone can give me advice on what should be my next move to become a delay analyst. I have been a planner for a number of years (8) with plenty of experience of EOT's and I am also due to graduate next month for a MSc Construction Law & Arbit...

May 11, 2012

Activity task bar

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Hi, I need to show all completed tasks in blue on the activity task bars. I'm not sure which name bar to choose / add to, the only relevent name is 'Complete %'!! Any advise would be appreciated.   Richard

May 11, 2012