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question about data date

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hi we are updaing the program on weekly basis - our cut off date is thursday shall i use data date ( friday) in primavera 6 or thursday ?   thanks Alaa

Mar 27, 2012

Group & Sort in P6 : How to insert a new field?

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Hello I have a difficulty here. Hope I get an answer. Can anyone please suggest me how to insert a field in P6 'Group & Sort'. Check the attached snapshot below. I need to insert a field where the arrow mark is pointed. [[wysiwyg_imageupload:996:]]  ...

Mar 27, 2012

The Problem of Co-Sponsorship

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Hi Guys, From time to time, we come across projects that have two sponsors and we've written about some of the problems this causes here http://bit.ly/GVcxha Does anyone else come across this?Emily

Mar 27, 2012

Where are the answers located?

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Hello admins,I am still trying to understand where PlanningPlanet locates an answer to a post;* above all the existing posts,* bellow all the existing posts,* after the post that was selected when I saved my answerIt is very difficult to find the mos...

Mar 28, 2012

Level of Effort (LOE) for Cost Summation

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Hi I am using P6, i have following problemI have huge project with many activities, i want to add up duration of few consectivite activities , I have defined a dummy activity , assigned it a Level of effort activity type (LOE) , and assigned SS to Pr...

Mar 29, 2012

Material Resource Histogram in P6

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Freinds,Please suggest me how can I copy and paste resource usage spreadsheet from P6 to excel or export it to excel, considering that the type of resource is MATERIAL.

Mar 29, 2012

Problem with scheduling and durations

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Hi all, I have inherited a program from a colleague which is based on 7day x 12hrs calendar. When i am adding durations and relationships into the program, they seem to be extending past the dates required. For example;   Activity 1 = 2 days Activity...

Mar 29, 2012

Problem with scheduling and durations

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Hi all, I have inherited a program from a colleague which is based on 7day x 12hrs calendar. When i am adding durations and relationships into the program, they seem to be extending past the dates required. For example;   Activity 1 = 2 days Activity...

Mar 29, 2012

Retained Logic & Progress Override

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Hi all planners,I was studying Retained Logic and Progress Override options in P6. And understood well about Retained Logic also I understood that the result under Progress Override are not realistic. Then, the question raised that if the results are...

Mar 29, 2012

Problem with relationships to completed/in progress tasks

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Hi I hope this is a simple problem that can be easily fixed!I have relationships to tasks in my project, however, when I set the task to started or finished, and then schedule the project, it seems to lose the relationship to the predecessor and seem...

Mar 29, 2012

Primavera P6 Pro R8.1

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Hi , Recently i have been migrating from MS projects to Primavera P6 Pro R8.1.I accidentally deleted all the projects instead of one. Since then i am not able to create new project, nor i am able to import any from MSP. Also the Projects menu is seen...

Mar 30, 2012

Planning Skills Recognition

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Hi Everyone,   I was wondering if there is any reason Planners as a whole arent on the Australian Skilled Occupation List? I cant find anything that would relate to planning on the skills list. http://www.immi.gov.au/skilled/_pdf/sol-schedule1.pdf I ...

Mar 30, 2012

Canada wide Salary / hourly rates for Intermediate

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Hi guys,I am new in Canada and not familiar with the ongoing rates for Planners and Schedulers Canada wide. I do know that it varies between provinces with Calgary being the highest. Would anyone be kind enough to post the rough brackets of reasonabl...

Mar 30, 2012

S Curve for Cash Flow

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 HiCan anybody guide me how to represent Cash Flow with P6 in Bar Chart & S Curve format.I check the option in tracking but it represent only Resources in S Curve format once choose Project Cost it shows in table form. Please guide me.Thanks

Mar 30, 2012

MS Project 2010 Tutorial

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Introduction Microsoft Project -MSP- is a project management software developed by Microsoft. MSP is designed to help project managers in developing plans, tracking progress, managing the budget, assigning resources to tasks and analyzing workloads ....

Mar 31, 2012

Open ended tasks on critical path

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Hi all,I have an issue with open ended tasks ina plan. I'm analysing the plan with Primavera risk analyser and the open ended tasks in the plan are lying on the critical path.What's the best way to deal with this, please? Get the master Primavera pla...

Mar 31, 2012