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Level Of Effort progress updated

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Hi All, Just wonder how normally you update your level of effort schedule activities (when you are running live schedule)? Do you change it to task dependent by the time the baseline been finalized?

Jul 31, 2012

Working hours

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Hi to all I am a junior planning working in oil and gas and doing scheduling.My question is that my company works 10 hours a day and i developed a calender of my company setup up the timing from 6 am- 4:30 pm but when i assing resources and insert wo...

Jul 31, 2012

Update Progress Tool in P6

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Hi planners. I have a question about "Update Progress" tool in P6. I have a project on time but out of budget, so I want to update it using "Update Progress" only dates, not actual amount of resources because of resources must be update manually. How...

Aug 1, 2012

Resource Loading of Ongoing Schedule

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Hello guys, I would like to seek advices from you guys whom I know are more adept on this Project Planning Field. My problem is We are using a schedule with no resource/man hour loading. And now the client wants me to resource load the schedule, is t...

Aug 1, 2012

Earned Labor Units

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Hi Everyone, Can anybody advise on how to disconnect the duration from the labor units. This is possible in P3 (in options) , how ever in P6 once you change the remaining duration the earned labor units automatically changed. I dont need to change th...

Aug 1, 2012

Importing Financial Period Actual Units into P6 using a Spraedsheet

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I want to use Excel to import Actual Units into P6 for Financial Periods. I have set up Financial periods & a test project. I export data to an Excel Spreadsheet (the Resources Tab), which gives me a template. If there are actual hours in P6, then th...

Aug 2, 2012

Modify critical path

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Hi allThere is a very big project with its starting date and finishing date. However, I do not want the critical path to go till the end. Along the project there is a milestone which I want to be the end of the critical path. What happens after that ...

Aug 2, 2012

Opening XER file from P6.r8 in P6.r7

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Hi Everyone,We are in transition period moving from P6r.7 to P6r.8.2 and we still have some project and 7 while we started some project in 8.I am facing a problem in one my peoject where there is part of the project has been build in r.8 and I need t...

Aug 2, 2012

EARLY START AND LATE START S-CURVE

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Hi,Appreciate if somebody could show me how to fill up the early start and late start date columns as data cannot be entered and on ly show display dates that are similar to START and FINISH dates. I need these info to construct my early start and la...

Aug 5, 2012

EARLY START AND LATE START S-CURVE

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Hi,Appreciate if somebody could show me how to fill up the early start and late start date columns as data cannot be entered and on ly show display dates that are similar to START and FINISH dates. I need these info to construct my early start and la...

Aug 5, 2012

Closeout Programme

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What is a closeout programme,  Is there any difference between main baseline and closeout programme Thanks

Aug 6, 2012

SDEF File to XER File ( vice versa )

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 Hi, Does somebody knows how to generate SDEF File and to convert to P6 XER File or vice versa. In addition, what is the advantage of using SDEF File since this is my first time I heard this SDEF File.  Any help is very much appreciated.

Aug 6, 2012

P6 Integration API for running data exchange

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I want to show  my schedule from Primavera as Time-Distance-Diagram in TILOS. To get the data-exchange running it seems that you need to install P6 Integration API first?

Aug 6, 2012

Histogram To Count Tasks

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Hi All, I'm trying to create a histogram that counts the number of Tasks at the instant in time that have a been alllocated with a cost centre value, rather unsuccessfully at the moment. Does anyone know how? Thanks, Chris.

Aug 6, 2012

production rate

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Hi friends,Anybody pls reply what is the production rate for sructural steel work(light, heavy and medium).your help in this regard is highly appreciated.Regards,Sunil.

Aug 7, 2012

Generating an Early, Late, & Planned Curve in P6

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In P3, users could produce an Early, Late, & Planned Curve.  P6 doesn't do this.  I am able to produce an Early & Late Resource curve by copy/pasting the data from the resource assignments view into an excel spreadsheet, but I cannot produce a planne...

Aug 7, 2012