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Jobs?

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Wow I have not looked into PP for a few years and was shocked to see how little jobs PP has got, I remember the times when there were 5 to 10 jobs per day? What has happened to PP?  apart from the world market job slump, as other job sites are not lo...

Mar 17, 2017

Weather delay - calendar vs delay activity

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I understand that the correct practice is to make a calendar for weather affected activities and use that calendar for accounting weather delays in scheduleBut what if, instead of a delay calendar, we include a delay activity in the end and do not as...

Mar 17, 2017

Saving different versions of a project

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I will save a copy of my project once i complete all durations and links, but before assigning any resources and calendar, even before creating those.then after saving it, i will continue and create resources and calendar, then assign reosurces and c...

Mar 17, 2017

S Curve For Construction

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Hello Everyone, I would like to knopw how youy would build a S Curve for Construction in Excel Sheet. Points to be notedNot by loading manpower into your Software like Primavera, MSP etc. I have a Manpower Schedule which shows how many Personnel whic...

Mar 19, 2017

XER file at completion units is changed.

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Dear Friendswhenver i importing XER file at completion units is changed.we are using server based software. means we are updating the programme multiple users.and we are using unit percentage complete.so please help...

Mar 20, 2017

Cost report row size

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Hi all,I am new here, and new to P6. I am trying to print out a cost report under the resource assignments view that displays 3 rows for each activity: budgeted cost, actual cost, at completion cost. I have the layout setup exactly how I want it, and...

Mar 20, 2017

MS Project - Thirds of Months?

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One of my Project Managers just asked me a question I couldn't answer.:-oYou can imagine my acute embarassment and changrin. The very thought of being less knowledgable than a PM makes me shudder, so any help would be much appreciated.Why does MS Pro...

Mar 20, 2017

P6 comparing roles budgeted units with units of resources available

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Good afternoon,I am trying to find a way where I can assign roles to all the activities in my different projects and do a comparison or perform a gap analysis of the resources available for each role.The idea is that we can have a look ahead of which...

Mar 20, 2017

Recommended way to update the progress in P6

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Dear all,I am new to Primavera. With all the manuals I am sort of still lost on what is the meant procedure to update status / progress of activities in Primavera and you can change several things and the tool will re-calculate the other (e.g. updati...

Mar 21, 2017

Entering durations

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Do you enter durations, or enter resources and work and come up with durations? Which one do you prefer and why? Is there an official correct way or just matter of preference?

Mar 22, 2017

How to convert MPP file to XER or MPX

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hello house,please does anyone know how to convert mpp to xer or mpp to mpx,as whenever i import mpp to xer on primavera, i get error message as such he does not import. am using P6,8.2is there a software or any way around this thankstony

Mar 23, 2017

activity complete and Schedule % complete not maching

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Hi Friends,I have an LOE activity with SS and FF relationship to a set of activities.There were delays in the activities and the orignal and at completion is now different for the activities as well as the LOE activity now.The activity % complete is ...

Mar 24, 2017

Mothering Sunday

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Mothering Sunday coming soonQuickly followed by Smothering Monday when the noisy brats just get on her wick once too often.Sometimes she thinks Herod wasn't all wrong.

Mar 24, 2017

Translating delay % into days

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Dear all, May i know how do you calculate how many days that have been delayed for a project from % variance?For example:Planned 50% vs Actual 45% = Delayed by 5%Currently, I calculated the delayed days, Forecast Finish Date - Baseline Finish Date an...

Mar 26, 2017