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Provisional sum

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Dear All,How to minimise the risk of Provisional sum in contract after the award of LOI.MArgin for PS  is fixed at the time od award of LOI.We know that later on this items wont come & we didnt get that marginat the end of project. Is there any provi...

Mar 13, 2012

Bar Labels

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Hi, I have Actual work (blue Bar) and critical remaining work (red bar) against the same activity. The activity name is shown twice against the activity. How can i delete one activity name so that it is only shown once. I have activities with just ac...

Mar 13, 2012

P6 unusual error

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Hi to all, One of my friend inquire about this problem he encounter. Usually, when exiting the P6 with open project and trying to re-open again P6, the display will show the project that was left opened before exiting. Suddenly, when exiting the P6 w...

Mar 14, 2012

Add calender to custom fieldes

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Hello planners,   I need help to add project calender to this formula.   ([Start]+[Duration3]/480)   I have made a PERT add in to MSP 2010 and whant to display the optimistic ending in the summary. I'm sure that someone is sitting on this knowledge o...

Mar 14, 2012

SIMOPS Planning

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Hi I find it very difficult to plan the SIMOPS into the schedule. Say you have a limited work area and you have hi-pressure activities such as leak tests in that area. When you do the leak tests, all other activities must stop. What I have done is to...

Mar 14, 2012

SIMOPS Planning

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Hi I find it very difficult to plan the SIMOPS into the schedule. Say you have a limited work area and you have hi-pressure activities such as leak tests in that area. When you do the leak tests, all other activities must stop. What I have done is to...

Mar 14, 2012

Cleaning schedule relationships

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Hi planners,I have a schedule which contains many unnecessary relationships that I have to remove.I started with the following case : if I have 3 activities A, B & CA --- FS---> BB --- FS---> CA --- FS---> C ( I have to remove the third relationship)...

Mar 14, 2012

As late as possible constraint

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Hi,Currenlty carrying out a tidy up operation on a BAeline programme prior to a delay analysis.My question is how would you deal with a set of activities that have no predecessor and have an 'As late as possible' constraint assigned to them??Thanks i...

Mar 14, 2012

Pert view

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Hi planners,What is the best planning software showing clearily the activity network to be able to trace schedule logic easily?I have tried the timescaled Logic diagram in P6.7 but I believe that we can find better in term of presentation.Many thanks...

Mar 14, 2012

MSP2007 - Showing Progress within Summary Bar

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I've seen a few posts on similar subjects on PP and through searching the internet, but not seen a reply that works for me (as yet!!). When I used MSP2003, I could set up a "Summary Progress" bar that superimposed itself over the "Summary Bar". Howev...

Mar 14, 2012

ERP Oracle

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Dear AllHow to get  trial copy from ERP ORACLEalso i need tourtial for these software

Mar 15, 2012

PM6 v7 ODBC connection error

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Please help - I'd like to connect to the Oracle XE PMDB through an ODBC connection but I get the following errors:1) Unspecified Error:Source: Microsoft OLE Provider for ODBC DriversDescription: [ATI] [OpenRDA ODBC] RDA Error; resource not available ...

Mar 15, 2012

Schedule Review Meetings

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The client is organizing a bi-weekly Schedule Review Meeting. The proposed invitees are the planner, the project controls manager, and the project manager from the client side. On our side, we have the project manager, the project controls manager, t...

Mar 16, 2012

Importing Resource Assignments

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Hi all - ANY advice would be very much appreciated,,, I am currently running imports into P6 (from an xls workbook) that give me both Activities and Resource Assignments, my question is this – is there a method of OVER-WRITING the resources during th...

Mar 16, 2012

Delete or Not to Delete Activities in P6

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Have a question on deleting activities from P6 after those activities have been baselined, or multiple baselines. Once an activity is baselined, or is baselined multiple times for variance analysis, on a bi-weekly basis, and this activity is no longe...

Mar 16, 2012

Integrate P6 with Esimate

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Hi Guys, Has anyone out there had any experience with integrating the schedule with the estimate. My organisation currently works with an estimating depatment that goes off and builds an estimate (they use expert & or Candy) at the same time we have ...

Mar 17, 2012