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S curve Formula

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During my experience in few company, I found a kind of table to draw our s-curve, you can choose a number of period and you have the forcast corresponding of this period, the periode can be (hour, day, week or month), for exemple :Number of period 4 ...

Jan 7, 2019

Planner duties

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I want to do what is the duties of the planner in a company, what he has to do ? for exemple is it in his duties to prepare the sheet of payement 

Jan 8, 2019

GLOBAL CHANGE - WBS

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Hello frineds, Hope you all are doing great.I Have construction Acitivtes (Physical %) which are assinged with labor Units (Direct) & Cost not loaded. That means during the update of scheudle I will have BL Units, Planned Units, Earned Units. Now I w...

Jan 10, 2019

Loss of WBS Name when importing into P6 from MS Excel

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Hi I am importing an MS excel file into P6. I have no issues with this.However, when the excel file is imported, the WBS Name chages to the Master file name.I cannot sort and filter the WBS in P6 as the WBS is lost.Any help and suggestions would be a...

Jan 10, 2019

Remaining Duration - Update Automatically?

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Is there a setting so the Remaining duration updates automatically for activities which are in progress. I.e. for a 10 day duration with an actual duration of 5 days then the remaining would be calculated to 5 days?I currently have a 64 day activity,...

Jan 10, 2019

Contents of EOT claim

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Dear all,Can some one please help me with the contents for an EOT ? Below is my idea. 1. Executive Summary2. Project Details (contracting parties, time, value etc)3. Contract Representations (clauses etc)4. Scope of work5. Baseline Programme/Planned ...

Jan 13, 2019

Copying activities between projects

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What is the best way to copy a set of activities from one project and pasting them into another in P6?I have tried exporting as an XER file and importing to the file I want them pasted into. When I pick 'Add into existing Project' it doesn't allow me...

Jan 16, 2019

Estimating & Planning Man Hours

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Hi,I've recently taken a job as an Estimator/Project Planner for a Mechanical & Civil Engineering Contractor. I'm developing estimates and project schedules from 1st Principles and I was wondering if anyone could recommend a good 'rule-of-thumb' guid...

Jan 17, 2019

Glass Facade - construction sequence and timing

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Dear All With regards to when to start glass panel installation at facade, let us assume that the internal Partitions is block work and plastering can we install glass facade before starting of internal block work or it has to be installed after plas...

Jan 21, 2019

Primavera Email Statusing Service

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HiI just created EPPM18.8 environment on Oracle Cloud, all modules are working.I am not sure how email statusing service will work. What I assume that for each user assignment, system should generate an email to user that task has been assigned to hi...

Jan 22, 2019

Level of Effort Activities

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HiI added a Level of Effort activity in a WBS, as per its nature it will cover the entire project duration.Assuming that by assigning a resource this this Level of Effort activity, Project cost (User rate X Activity Duration) should be updated, but t...

Jan 22, 2019

XLSX

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Hello there!I am having issues while importing units and durations on P6, using XLSX files. When I import floating point values, it ignores the decimal point and import as an integer. For example, importing 12.05 and it writes 1,205 in the database. ...

Jan 23, 2019

PSP Practice questions

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Hi AllI am currently studing for PSP exam but i cant find alot of Practice question for the exam and also Practice for the Memo question if any one can send a link or upload any previous data for question it would be very appreciated .RegardsHaytham ...

Jan 24, 2019

Planning Process Map

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Hi all.I have been tasked with creating a process map to show the necessary stages of the planning process from receiving a tender to completing construction on site. I am just looking to gain some usefull points from the forum in terms of important ...

Jan 25, 2019

XML import assistance

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Hi Everyone, I am having trouble importing this xml file (from MSP), there are Zero resources, costs, expenses or anything else, just activities, duration, manhours and some text in msp activity text field text10. The import fails on my companies ser...

Jan 26, 2019

How to Close One Project on P6

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Dear Member, So I recently faced this problem while working with two projects opened at the same time. How can I close only one project if multiple projects are open? I usually use the Ctrl+W shortcut which closes all project. Please share your exper...

Jan 27, 2019

POBS Cleaner

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Hi Everybody!  If someone is still struggle from manually cleaning POBS from .xer files, I wrote a small software to do it automatically.It supports unicode languages. No data loss.Please check it out. It is free to use.Don't worry, there is no virus...

Jan 29, 2019