Search

Planned Value & Resource Curve

Forum Topic

As per the following below Resource Curve and for an activity of  20 Days Original Duration the Planned Value will be exactly located on last day of the activity. But for any activity with Original Duration more than 20 Days, the Planned Value will n...

Mar 21, 2019

Global change not working for baseline programme

Forum Topic

I am aware of the need to change the planned start and planned finish of a baseline programme before attaching it to the programme that I am usuing to demonstrate a delay.However in certain instances the planned dates are not being changed. ie an act...

Mar 21, 2019

Crane simulation

Forum Topic

In my project I have problems with the cranes.Everyone wants to use the crane at the same time - for the reinforcement, formwork, metalics structure etc etcCan someone help me with an idea about crane simulation.Thanks.

Mar 22, 2019

Missing indent and levels from Group by

Forum Topic

Hi All, first time poster.I have done something to my current project today so that now I can't Group By WBS. The option to indent has gone and I can't select levels anymore. This has happened today some time and I have no idea what I've done. I'm ho...

Mar 22, 2019

Loops

Forum Topic

Not sure if its been covered before but for informationI found I was getting loops in a imported schedule that I was updating in P6 with a schedule from a contractor.  I would only update the activities, relationships, and resources on the activities...

Mar 22, 2019

When To Add Potential Impact Activities Into The Schedule

Forum Topic

Hi all,I am new to the Forum and have a question for you.What is the standard practice for accounting for potential schedule impacts that may lead to a delay?  Specifically, when do you add the Impact activity into the logic network?  I have been ask...

Mar 22, 2019

Remaining Labor Unit by Week

Forum Topic

Hello Everyone, Need help on how to get a report on Remaining labour units per week after updating the Schedule. Like, Week 24.3 31.3 7.4 Mason 10 5 6 Regards Jithin

Mar 24, 2019

Remove float for all in progress activities

Forum Topic

HiIs there a quick way to remove float and make all activities critical? Client wants to know what happen to the project finish date if remove the floatThanks

Mar 25, 2019

Primavera 18.8 Configuration with Weblogic Server

Forum Topic

HiI am woriking on windows 2016 server (Windows instance on oracle cloud), trying to install EPPM 18.8. To create this environment I need to JAVA SDK, Oracle Weblogic Server, SQL Server 2017 (database server) along with EPPM 18.8 modules. I am using ...

Mar 26, 2019

massive project creation

Forum Topic

Hi,i would like to create a large group of projects in p6. Is there a functionality to create a large amount of simple project in p6? Something like the batch to create financial period?They must be simple, without activities, because I will edit the...

Mar 26, 2019

Opening 3 projects and create a baseline of them all

Forum Topic

How do I create a single baseline of the 3 projects that reflect the 3 open together?   Is it a baseline for each project and just update it or can I do it all at once while they are all open?

Mar 27, 2019

XML Import to P6 - Durations affected

Forum Topic

I've saved an MSP file as XML for importing to P6, but after Import many of the activity durations and dates have changed. Some increasing by over 60 days. However I also can't seem to change any of the durations, I was hoping I could manually run th...

Mar 28, 2019

Change Management

Forum Topic

What are the importance of change management from the time that the project was in its different stages.”

Mar 31, 2019

Adding price for activities in order to get a cash flow

Forum Topic

Hello,In my schedule, I didn't add any resources except for some materials.Now I need cash flow for the project (revenue) on a monthly basis, how I can add prices for the activities ???I have added the materials in order to get material usage on a we...

Apr 2, 2019

Primavera Web Services

Forum Topic

I am curious if anyone uses Primavera Web Services in creative ways to use P6 more efficiently. Cant find any blogs out there about how people leverage this capability. Clearly P6 built it for a reason, so is anyone using it? and how?

Apr 2, 2019

Project % of completion

Forum Topic

Good day,how I can calculate the % complete of the project when I have the quantities increased from the baseline ???if I want to consider the actual completed work for some items and it almost reached the baseline or BOQ quantity, this will give a w...

Apr 3, 2019

SPI Figure When Planned Value is 0

Forum Topic

Hi All,I've having an issue where in reporting SPI, My planned value is zero just happens to be zero this month, and my earned value is 2.7%, so of course my SPI figure is calculated as 0.00, which in formula world, is the correct answer.However, in ...

Apr 3, 2019

'Is a project' function in Asta

Forum Topic

HiHas anyone used the 'is a project' function in Asta?Please explain what it is.Does Asta allow to have a master programme and sub-programmes linked to it so that changes made to master will be reflected on the sub ones?ThanksSusan

Apr 3, 2019

Programme format from BoQ

Forum Topic

I'm having a somewhat heated debated with some of our QS.They argue gantt charts - task names and arrangement - should be determined by BoQ and then up to me to plot task durations.I argue that BoQ are not narrative and don't often given detail to sp...

Apr 5, 2019

Order of construction project construction?

Forum Topic

Hello allI am a construction project management engineer in Hanoi Vietnam. I just learned about this forum and also recently joined the forum. My aim is to learn more about construction project management experience in developed countries. Look forwa...

Apr 6, 2019