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Remaining Labor Units - PLEASE HELP!

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Hello,I am currently managing a portfolio of plans that are managed by entering progress and actuals.  The duration type is set to Fixed Duration & Units and % complete type is physical.  All resources have been set to Auto Compute Actuals and Calcul...

Apr 11, 2016

Negative float and project end dates

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Hello,On a schedule for a construction project I have created a LOE activity called 'monthly meetings'. This activity has its own caldendar with only 2 working days every month.I have a start milestone for 'construction start' and a finish milestone ...

Apr 13, 2016

AACEi Planning and Scheualing Course

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HI All Has anyone completed the AACEi planning and scheduling course.I would like some feedback and ideal benefits to gain experience in planning. As I look towards trying to become a project planner in the future

Apr 13, 2016

Master programme-Details? Generic?

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Dear, I am a PM of a construction company and I also like to prepare master programme by myself.However, diiferent opinion is received from various discipline. The master programme should be as details as possible or more generic.Personally, I prefer...

Apr 13, 2016

Use the flag to set a column of data

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I have a flag that is set to yes and would like to display in a text field the word contractor but am having problems setting up the formula.  Can anyone help?

Apr 13, 2016

1 day duration - finish day is different from Start day

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This may be a simple question but why if a task has a 1 day duration (8 hous) is the finish day the next day, e.g. Start day - 4/13/2016 - duration 1 day == finish day is 4/14/2016.  Logic tells me that the finish day is 4/13/2016.   Is there a way t...

Apr 13, 2016

1 day duration - finish day is different from Start day

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This may be a simple question but why if a task has a 1 day duration (8 hous) is the finish day the next day, e.g. Start day - 4/13/2016 - duration 1 day == finish day is 4/14/2016.  Logic tells me that the finish day is 4/13/2016.   Is there a way t...

Apr 13, 2016

Airport runway strengthening

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Hi, I am currently involved in an expression of interest for a regional aerodrome upgrade. I don't have any airport project exprience but I have done a lot of road jobs.One of the scope of works is to strengthen the existing runway from PCN 18 to PCN...

Apr 15, 2016

Set up password to MS project file

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Good day Dear Ladies/Gents,It is big pleasure for me to join this forum.I am beginner on MS Project and need your advise on how to set up password for MS Project file. So only I (or person knows password) can modify file and rest personnel who has ac...

Apr 15, 2016

Font and Backround Color change

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Dear All,While I am trying to change FONT and BACKROUND colour on task or subtasks somehow prevous changed tasks return to origianl colour (black and white) on MS project file. Even when I select 10 task and sub tasks for colour changing some of them...

Apr 15, 2016

Estimate to Complete Cost

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Dear All,I need some clarification regarding the calculation of 'Estimate to Complete' in Primavera P6 (ver 7 to be specific). In one of my updated baseline I noticed that for some of the completed activities the ETC is shown to be zero but at the sa...

Apr 17, 2016

Estimate to Complete Cost

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Dear All,I need some clarification regarding the calculation of 'Estimate to Complete' in Primavera P6 (ver 7 to be specific). In one of my updated baseline I noticed that for some of the completed activities the ETC is shown to be zero but at the sa...

Apr 17, 2016

Inquiry : Planning by Quantity not Duration

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Hi everyone , I have a question How can I make P6 to calculate the original duration by itself ( To give it a quantity and Productivity rate ) Duration = Quantity * Productivity rate any body can help me please Thanks 

Apr 18, 2016

Out of Sequence

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Any method to put on sequence all those out of sequence after you update the programme. Normally I did 1 by 1 from log register and chenge the relationship of thos activity that out of sequence. Pleased advised. Thanks

Apr 18, 2016

Global Change Not Working

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Here is the situation.  I am trying to take an in progress schedule and use it for a new project.  The unstatused baseline is not available, only an in-progress version.  Normally this is no problem, I simply run a global change for activity status n...

Apr 18, 2016

Progress Tracking for MEP Progects

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Dear All,I started working as a Planning Engineer from Aug-2015. Till today I'm facing problems in tracking the work progress from site. Whenever I request for site progress updates I'm not getting any proper updates. The site people says that its th...

Apr 19, 2016