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Resource overload report

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Dear all,if I look at the resource overload report, then it produces new set of entries for every working day of a resource.Is there any way to tweak Spider to create only one entry for a the whole period, when resource overload is caused by the same...

Jan 30, 2014

4D - Visualising Progress - Activities behind Late Start/ Finish

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Hello everyone,I come from a background in architecture, but have now found myself working with a contractor - where I have been tasked with developing ways of visualising progress using BIM/Navisworks.I am starting off with some very basic visual re...

Feb 2, 2014

Who is doing what report

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Dear all,when working with Spider, how do you actually distribute the tasks to people, in which form?(Let us assume one scheduler for a project)What reports is best to give to people, so that they know what and when they shall be doing?Regards.Evgeny

Feb 3, 2014

Excel Import Problem

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Hi the Pro of Primavera I need help.I am having a problem in importing an Excel file when I import it there is a field that says Import to is Blank? It should show EPS but its not please Help

Feb 3, 2014

Table reports

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Dear all,I am just looking at the table reports and have the following question, regarding the below example of a schedule and a Resource-Hours report:1) Question 1: in the below example of the report what is exactly Object and and what is Parameter?...

Feb 3, 2014

Percentage complete type on P6

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Hello Planner's,How are u?I'm searching the definition & diference between percentage complete like Duration per%, Unit Per%, Phisycal Per%, Performance per% & Schedule percentage. what the effect of these percentage on schedule & where were we use i...

Feb 7, 2014

Integrating P6 with other programs

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Hello Everyone,I have a question that I don't know if it can be answered or not.  Our company has really ramped up the size of our projects and they are run with all sorts of different programs mainly HeavyBid, Sage Timberline, and P6.  I was wonderi...

Feb 7, 2014

Working with portfolios

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Dear all,I have a couple of questions regarding working with PortfolioQ1: I still don’t understand what exactly the action "Update Portfolio" does. I tried to invoke it when the schedule of the project included in portfolio has changed, but it did no...

Feb 8, 2014

Does EPPM cover everything PPM has?

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I am considering to buy Primavera P6 PPM or EPPM 1- Is PPM a subset of EPPM? In other words, if I buy EPPM I can do EVERYTHING that PPM does, and more? If I have EPPM, can I still do the good old windows, desktop based schedule making like in PPM? Or...

Feb 8, 2014

Labor units and Remaining units

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Hi everyone,I am new in primavera, and I am just confused about the numbers where you can see to remaining units and remaining labor units, now my question is "is the remaining unit or the labor units" is the duration of time or a number of people or...

Feb 8, 2014

Labor units and Remaining units

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Hi everyone,I am new in primavera, and I am just confused about the numbers where you can see to remaining units and remaining labor units, now my question is "is the remaining unit or the labor units" is the duration of time or a number of people or...

Feb 8, 2014

Understanding Labor units and Remaining units

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Hi everyone,I am new in primavera, and I am just confused about the numbers where you can see to remaining units and remaining labor units, now my question is "is the remaining unit or the labor units" is the duration of time or a number of people or...

Feb 8, 2014

how not to place your new project under existing sample ones

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i just installed my primavera p6 PPM for the first time and there are many sample projects when i start a project it starts under existing project groups how can i NOT start it under existing groups? I want to keep the sample projects groups and proj...

Feb 9, 2014

Norm field/column in SP

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Mr Rafael,In almost my projects, I've used Norm (hours per 1 unit) more than using Productivity (units per 1 hour). Norm and Productivity are same essence, just an inverse of each other. So, how can I get it in SP. I tried formula in "new field", but...

Feb 10, 2014