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Project tracking - Updating in MPP 2003

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Hi, I need help for project update, I have a master schedule of 1350 activities with only task's (no resources and cost) I have saved baseline and inserted column of Baseline duration and baseline start and finish, and also inserted actual duration a...

Oct 25, 2012

Transferring of Activity Progress

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Hi, Im having problems on importing activity progress from my "Progress File" to my "Working File". I've tried doing the "P6 to Excel to P6" importing/exporting method.  In the process of exporting my "Progress File" to excel, I called out "Activity ...

Oct 25, 2012

Merge Schedules

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Hello, I have a master schedule and a Variation schedule in p6. I need to add the variation to the end of the master schedule to create one schedule. How can i achieve this. Thanks in advance. Rick. 

Oct 25, 2012

METHOD OF RESOURCING THE SCHEDULE IN P6

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Dear All, I just wanna ask some help regarding the METHOD OF RESOURCING THE SCHEDULE. I already populated my 510 activities with all the resources required. Now my problem is when I calculated average per month the result is 1800. I am expecting a va...

Oct 25, 2012

Problem with P6 EPPM web client application

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Dear all, Did anyone  used P6 web application? I have some problems about activity view in web application.my version is P6 R8.1 and the problem is milestone activities is not show in gantt chart (as in attachment). I try to find bar option as in cli...

Oct 26, 2012

P6 deleted resources

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Deleted resources from main heirarchy,refreshed data and logged out. On next login deleted resources where reinstated on list ? Any ideas what could be causing this issue. This does not happen when using the web application.

Oct 26, 2012

Incorrect representation of Progress Line in summary bar??

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Dear All,   I have baselined my schedule and started recording the progress. when i put the progress line,it shows prefectly correct for all the activities.But in the summary bar the Progress line goes ahead of the status date.I have 10 activites und...

Oct 27, 2012

Can't get P6 to assign Baseline dates

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Hi folks, I searched the forums for an answer to this and couldn't find anything hence the new post. I have multiple programmes, A baseline and monthly updates.  I have assigned the monthly update of March as a baseline to the April update, (reason b...

Oct 28, 2012

Problem with in progress activities

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Dear All,             I am new at P6, i am trying to updated the progress of activities but when i run the schedule, i am having problem with all the "in progress" activities.. there is lag after the data date for all of them because of which the "At...

Oct 28, 2012

resource allocation

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Can we automatically generate resource for the activity depending upon the budgeted quantity.

Oct 29, 2012

Permanent Resource - Calendar, Working Time, Overtime

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Hi all, Is there a way to numerate total working time that a resource has been allocated, with separate figures for standard working time and overtime? Currently I have a library of resources which i regularly use. I have duplicates of resources for ...

Oct 29, 2012

Budget Cost

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Hi to All P6 Users, Anybody aware of the values displayed on their screen something like this as shown in the image?The value shown on the Roll up Total Amount is different from the Total Cumulative Value at the end of the period.Some resource are sh...

Oct 30, 2012

Cost Of Prefabrication And Erection Work

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  Hello,Please advise me, concerning the cost of prefabrication and erection work of CS (carbon steel) and SS (stainless steel) piping.A bad welder welds one joint of welding (pipe 2'' diameter) per day???? Correct me please.Is there a website to cla...

Oct 30, 2012

Seasonal work, make an activity stay within one season

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Hi, I'm planning a project with a lot of seasonal work. The season is usually from 1. april until 31. of november. The activities are usually 5 months in total, and the project would not want the contractor to stay on the project over the winter.   I...

Oct 30, 2012

DOs and DON'Ts of PRA

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I  am in a company that is new to using the PRA tool, despite having used P6 for a few years.My question(s) is, what must we be aware of and to have performed when taking our P6 plan and importing it into PRA?I understand that some things have to be ...

Oct 30, 2012

Using Expenses in P6

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HiCurrently i'm working with a schedule where i use expenses tab to insert the cost for all the activities. Now i'm facing a problem where when i update the progress at the status tab, the Actual Cost and Remaining Cost don't change. What i know is i...

Oct 30, 2012

IPM Day Is This Thursday!

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International Project Management Day is this Thursday. How are you celebrating it? http://ow.ly/eSvFq

Oct 30, 2012