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Measuring progress from the baseline

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Hi,   We are writing a report from higher management and wanting to include information on: project baseline start vs project actual start project baseline finish vs actual project finish we are using primavera to feed us this information and just wa...

Jun 21, 2011

Good Practice Standards Poll - planning procedures

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Good Practice Standards PollDo you agree that your planning procedures help you do the job (e.g., are the systems adequate, helpful, good quality, do you re-invent the wheel)?   Agree (is a MAJOR problem for us!)If I agree does it means my planning p...

Jun 21, 2011

Filter - urgent

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a) I need to set up a filter for the actvities  start from 22/6/11 and end at 22/09/11.How to set up filter for that so that applying filter only those activites appear which fulfill above criteria?b) Some filters in global directory cant modify. why...

Jun 21, 2011

Schedule Impact Analysis

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Dear gentlemen,I am in the midst of cracking my head because of the schedule impact i need to prepare in order for my company to take legal action towards our sub con.  Going on, I am compiling the contract between1. Main Con & subcon contract2. Dail...

Jun 22, 2011

Mark as actual or remove activities

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Hi all Whilst creating a baseline to use as a claim for EOT there are certain activities that were in the original baseline that are now no longer necessary. Initially they were to be removed but it has been mentioned this will disrupt the logic, so ...

Jun 22, 2011

Group by WBS in MS Project

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Ok, This is something which should be fairly simple to do.  Is it possible to group and outline by WBS in MS Project without defining an outline code?  Ok, the project naturally is sorted into the WBS but I would like to add grouping and outline band...

Jun 22, 2011

Resource Loading - Tabular & Graphics

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Guys help please! Can anyone advise me on how to generate the Tabular Resource Loading and Graphical Resource Loading in P6... I am able to do it in P3 but don't know how to do it in P6. I can only see the Graphical Loading of Resources in the Resour...

Jun 22, 2011

Holding an Activity

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Hi,I am Faiz.have been working for last two years as Planning Engineer Using Primavera V6.I needed to ask that when I want show a activity on hold how to show it precisely.I tell you my procedure and you tell me that wither it is right or not??I have...

Jun 22, 2011

Establishing a Critical Path

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Hi,People working in primavera must know that when you schedule your programe of work after adding relationships,it makes its own critical path based on the longest path having 0 float...Now I have a schedule with a critical path and i want to change...

Jun 22, 2011

Error during mpp file to P6.2.1 import

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I receive an error during import that states "Process completed with errors. See log for details."  The log states... INFORMATION: Process Started: 06-22-2011 11:10:22INFORMATION: Importing from: C:\Documents and Settings\hgilliam\Desktop\Schedule fo...

Jun 22, 2011

Split activity

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Would you please remind me ... to split an activity in p3 (much like MS project does) I recall that activity should have an actual start... But how do I split it itself...   Thanks

Jun 22, 2011

What's the opposite of "Slippage"?

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I am developing a new schedule template which visualizes tasks which start/finish after the deadline, and task which start/finish earlier than planned.Now I am looking for an appropriate terminology:- the first would be called a "slipped task", or "t...

Jun 22, 2011

Thread Numbers

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Hi Admin Please can we go back to the old days and have sequential numbers for each thread? Best regards Mike T.

Jun 23, 2011

UPDATING THE PROGRESS

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HI Gentlemen,I have been updating the progress in primavers  version 6, by using Duration as % complete type.But i have also heard that one should use Physical as % complete type...I then used physical but the results were the same.Can someone tell m...

Jun 23, 2011

UPDATING A SCHEDULE

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HI Gentlemen,I have been updating the progress in primavers version 6, by using Duration as % complete type.But i have also heard that one should use Physical as % complete type...I then used physical but the results were the same.Can someone tell me...

Jun 23, 2011

Preparation of Entitlement Programme for EOT

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Hi,I am preparing an entitlement programme for EOT. I have no problem with that as the delay is due to the main contractor delaying their structural work. purely a employer risk event.I calculated the start variance between their current master progr...

Jun 23, 2011

Cost

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Dear all, hi. Any one, give me, how effectively using the cost control section in Primavera P 7. can I get details and formats Just Help me, I want increase my knowledge By (jaffer)

Jun 23, 2011