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A survey on Impact of construction programme and cash flow tecniques

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Dear Participant,I invite you to participate in a research study entitled-IMPACT OF CONSTRUCTION PROGRAMME & CASH FLOW ON CONTRACTOR’S PROFITABILITY I am currently enrolled in the MBA (Construction and Real Estate) at the University College of Estate...

May 31, 2018

P6 database configuration

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If I have not been told which database congfiguration to to use can I use any of the 3 offered when I log in for the first time or does it actually matter which one I use.The three options are Oracle, MS SQL Server or Primavera compression server

May 31, 2018

Hide Activities in P6

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Hello, I have been trying to hide activities in my P6 Schedule. I tried using filter, but it changes the duration of the project.I wish to hide activities, that retains my Project Schedule. Best Regards,Nisha Joseph

Jun 1, 2018

Sample of xer file

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Dear All, who can share cost loaded schedule in xer ? P6 thanks in advance Regards,Elnur

Jun 4, 2018

DACE labor productivity norms

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Hi everybody,I am leading the planning office of my company mainly involved as EPC contractor in industrial plants and infrastructures.After many years, I have the opportunity to purchase a database of labor productivity norms. I am trying to find a ...

Jun 4, 2018

Activities in which WBS Level in any view

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All, Is there a way of showing the WBS level in any view? Even a formulae in global change to show the WBS level that the activity is in would help. Thanks Pranab

Jun 4, 2018

Summarise milestones date

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Good morning colleagues, I have some challenge which I haven't witnessed before... I added milestone summary in my WBS to enable users glance through the first page and understand the schedule but I just observed it wasnt effecting the date as suppos...

Jun 6, 2018

Primavera 6 ver17.**

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Hello Guys,Just like to know if some of you guys experience what we experience with the latest version of P6.We migrated from v8.4 to v17.12.2 and everything has been okay, but when we import our native .xer file and send it to a client with same ver...

Jun 7, 2018

Default units/time

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How will changing the default units/time from 1/d to 8/d or vice versa effect the calculations? I changed them in my schedule and so far didn't notice any change.

Jun 11, 2018

Resource loading

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Hi there. I am doing resouce loading via excel and then I import the file into P6. I wanted to know, if someone among you is using this method, how to properly represent the data after importing it. for example a certain activity uses 12 mandays on c...

Jun 11, 2018

Progress monitoring

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I am working on this prog that was made by someone else. I, don't assign cost or labor units to engineering activities such as submissions and approvals of materials, drawings etc because often these  activities have a lot of float so they end up mes...

Jun 11, 2018

Common Mistakes

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Planners of Planning Planet, what are the most common mistakes/oversights/errors that can be avoided at the begining of planning the prog and might prove to be consequential over the course of the time?

Jun 13, 2018

Display resource allocation cost in Euro and GBP

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Hello Planners,Working with P6 8.4 on a France / UK project, I need to display the resource daily rate and budgeted cost in Euros for the french resources and in GBP for the english ones at the same timeI mean, I cannot answer the project director's ...

Jun 15, 2018

Merging Activities to retain logic

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Hello,I would like to merge a repeating sequence of activities so that a single activity would have the predecessor and successor logic of the five constituent activities.  I am not concerned about retaining any conflicting activity code, WBS, calend...

Jun 18, 2018

xer reader using PowerBI

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Guys I am sharing a new PowerBI application, it reads xer file and show some information WBSFloatPredecessors and driving relationship You need to install PowerBi desktop, which is a free application, please let me know if it works for you, and what ...

Jun 19, 2018

How to show gained revenue

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Hi,I work as a plannner in a big construction company. I want to show my boss how we can save/gaive money by planning. I have mentioned for example that we can see in a early stage that all extra work is delaying us. And with our baseline we can visu...

Jun 19, 2018

Resource Assigments. Actual and Forecast, don't add up to Budget?

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Hi I'm quite new to planning / P6And have a resource assignments questionI am trying to export the1. Budgetted Units2. Actual Units3. Remaining Units I go into the Resources Assisgnemrnt Tab and select one of the above and copy the information into e...

Jun 20, 2018