I am installing stand alone p6 on my laptop. Its 64 bit, AMD laptop.After installing P6 & have following error:Bad public user name or password. Database Server Error: Named Pipes Provider: Could not open a connection to SQL Server [67].Any suggestio...
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Our project is actually delayed and it's due to the client. The client acknowledges the delay (for a lot of reasons), thus agreed to give the contractor a time extension (Time B). However, the developer where the client has a contract with to finish ...
Dear All ,Could you please guide me for main Highway activities or sending me detailed sample for high way schedule Thanks,Amro
Dear Schedulers, I am reviewing schedul with 7000 activities and 876 critical activities and 6 longest bath. So, do you think those ok numbers I mean 876 critical and 6 longest bath for like this project and what is the avarge should be? Thank you ag...
I have a schedule with more than 5000 resource assignments. The unit prices have about 8 decimals and it is working properly. So I understand Primavera actually detects all the decimals but is not able to illustrate more than two digits. However, whe...
hi ,I am new in Primavera P6, I am facing problem in allocating overtime to an activity.Suppose i have one activity which is of 5 days, and worker normal working is 8h/d , and one resource work on this activity whose rate is $100/h . So total cost of...
Dear planners,I am getting a problem regarding actual unit & budgeted unit.As it can be seen in below snapshot of activities sheet in primavera 6, the actual non labor unit is set to be 104650 which is same as actual cost since I assign 1$/hour for p...
I recently created a baseline schedule and now that I'm updating on a regular basis, I realize I'm getting huge negative float numbers (of up to 3 digits), especially on ongoing activities. Just would like to know the opinion of the experts that have...
Dear All,Where I currently work there are a number of admin superusers that tend to "meddle" in plans that causes issues. Unfortunatley I cannot revoke this status therefore I'd like to "password protect" a couple of my plans if that is possible simi...
Hi Guys, Here's an article on why summarization is an important step in project maintenance http://bit.ly/Huu93y I hope it's useful, Emily
Hi Guys, Anyone use social media on their projects? Here's an article that dispels 5 myths on using social media on projects http://bit.ly/HwwgF0 Colin
Dear Friends Iam working on Primaver 6 R8.1 - SQL SERVER 2005 my problem is that making any process now take extraordinary time. opening one file take may be 15 minutes, opening 2 files together to make any work take more than 30 minutes. i checked p...
Hi there, Is there an easy way and/or any tips to follow when trying to open a V7 file into P6.0 thanks jamie
Dear Schedulers,I have WBS and the all activities in it are FS relations so, each one should start dierect behaind the processor is finish. But what happend I have gab now beteen two activities 20 days as far as the relation is FS. So, any idea why t...
I am using P6 V6.2. When I create a baseline using Create from Current Schedule it is not saving the latest / current schedule. Every month I need to generate snapshot target or new baseline of this month status. We use this to measure variance betwe...
Dear all, I am finding a problem that i had set a baseline for a project work programme. now when i am updating it with new data date the baseline milestones are also shifting. i want the baseline milestones to be shown as separate not shifted. can a...
Dear all, I am finding a problem that i had set a baseline for a project work programme. now when i am updating it with new data date the baseline milestones are also shifting. i want the baseline milestones to be shown as separate not shifted. can a...
In my P6 Schedule, the hour timings are off and it is not due to a bad calendar or anything I can see from a predecessor tie causing the activity to have the wrong hour timings. We have a 10 hour day project, so each activity should read from (start ...
Dear Planners,Client keeps on sending letter to our company regarding our schedule. Client illustrated multiple critical paths from our schedule. Is there any filter and or option in P6 to produce multiple critical paths. I have tried the Floath Path...