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Units (Work) without Resources

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I've noticed that in both P6 and MSP, values for Units (Work) are generated by assigning a Resource. It's also possible to it is possible to directly enter a value for Units (Work) without assigning a Resource. The latter method seems to behave much ...

Aug 29, 2012

Imoprting MS project 2010 into Primavera Risk Analysis

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Hi all, I have discovered an issue while importing MSP files into PRA.This arises when the MSP file contains tasks which are already underway i.e started before the import date.PRA does not carry through this date from project but uses a later date (...

Aug 29, 2012

Lag - Column View

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hi.does anyone know if there is a way to show activities that contain lags? Filter or have a Column that shows a check box or something?right now, i have to have the Relationships tab shown and arrow down every activity.thanks,Andre

Aug 29, 2012

How to install Primavera P6

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Hello Everyone, I want to install Primavera P6 on my desktop and want to share with other 5 desktop can anyone help me on this ?

Aug 30, 2012

program links

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why allways the client is not satisfied with program links.the links between activities ,shop drawins and coordination drwings the program become complicated for MEP activities and civil can any body help me with his experience

Aug 30, 2012

Free Ebook - How to Install Oracle Primavera P6 Professional

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Hi Guys, Here are step by step instructions showing how to Install Oracle Primavera P6 Professional for those who might need a little help installing the software in a standalone configuration. While it’s mostly straightforward to do, having a cheat ...

Aug 30, 2012

Cumulative baseline work

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Hi,I am new at this forum and I hope that you guys can help me out.I want to creata a column, custom field in MSP 2010 that contains baseline work cumulative from the start of the project all the way to the current status date. Can not find this func...

Aug 30, 2012

WBS: at which level should I put the E-P-C

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Hello guys, I'm currently developing the WBS concept, and generally the project has this EPC (Engineering Procurement and Construction) components under it's WBS. My question is at which level should I put the E-P-C ? following are 2 options that I'm...

Aug 31, 2012

Identifing Duplicate Activities.

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I am not sure how it happened, but after importing mulitple xer into my master schedule I have hundreds of duplicate actvities. I need to identify or delete these activities. Any suggestions would be helpfull, going thru the schedule day by day could...

Aug 31, 2012

Import Export numbers as text

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There is something I am not doing right when I try to convert numbers in Excel to text to match the export format from P6 8.2.  My situation: Trying to copy and paste data from an Excel Pivot Table to an exported P6 file.  I am trying to populate fie...

Aug 31, 2012

Cost Data no Importing Properly

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Contractor has submitted an updated schedule and the cost data (Budget at Completion or Budgeted Cost) for newly added activities is importing incorrectly. The contractor sent me a screenshot of his activities and I can see the correct costs. Yet whe...

Aug 31, 2012

Creating a project out of the origional project

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Hello; II am working on a schedule containing around 5000 Activities.Around 3000 Activities Are completed and others are in progress.My manager has asked that create a new schedule containing only the activities that are in progress or not started.No...

Sep 1, 2012

Data exported from P6 in Excel is in strange, unusable format?

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Hi, Whenever I export data from P6 in Excel format the data comes out in a strange format where everything has a "`" in front. For example, 1303FR001 comes out like `1303FR001. And I can't perform a Vlookup or other action as Excel doesn't seem to re...

Sep 2, 2012

How to remove the indent and outdent function in MSP

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Dear All, Is there a way to remove the outdent option while taking the print.My proejct manager want to show less gap in the task name column which is appearing because of the outdent option.I know there is option in P6 to remove this while we are ta...

Sep 2, 2012

P6 Version 8.2 vs Microsoft SQL database server 2005

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Hi everyone,I was working with P6 V6.1 with the Database Microsoft SQL server, now i have updated Primavera to Version 8.2. When i run the Primavera program the database is not supporting. The report comes as: The application and database versions do...

Sep 3, 2012

Creating Baseline in Primavera P6

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Good Morning everyone, I had a quiery in P6 releated to Baseline. 1. How to assign baseline? 2. How to maintain baseline? 3. How to do update progress in assigned baseline? 

Sep 3, 2012

Provide relationship wth another project in P6

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Hi Planner. I need to link some activities of my current project with another project. I added the Project ID in the Successor dialogue box and try to open it from there. It is not working. I never did it before could anybody help me about with simpl...

Sep 3, 2012

Budgeted Units: Location in time

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Hello, I have an activity which are currently statused as not started and is sitting on the data date. The activity has 100 Budeted Labor Units. It turns out that this activity was actually completed a while ago, so I 'retrospectively' assign the act...

Sep 4, 2012

Generating Reports

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Good Morning PP, Can anyone help me how to generate reports in Primavera P6 If i get step by step procedure how to generate reports will be very thankful. for Eg: 1. weekely Reports 2. Monthly Reports   Thank you, Regards, Rajesh.  

Sep 4, 2012