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Impact of Global calendar vs Activity based calendar

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Hi Guys,If a programme has a default Global calendar with two days a week off ( sat/sunday), and it is ticked as default in calendars. But, the individual activities have three different calendars, 6 days a week, 7 days a week and the default one, st...

Aug 8, 2018

Resource lookahead

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Hello.  I am a project manager for a design consultancy and we currently use P6 to manage out programmes, and then an excel sheet as a visual representation for lookahed purposes. My manager has requested that i investigate whether there is a better ...

Aug 9, 2018

Importing Microsoft Project (XML) to P6

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Hi - I am unable to import Microsoft Project (XML) to P6. There is an article on Oracle Support about it.Could someone with an Oracle support account login (link below) and let me know what the solution is please.https://support.oracle.com/knowledge/...

Aug 9, 2018

Project management

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After receiving drawings and BOQ's from client what would be the the next procedure toward project execution of Piping project.?

Aug 11, 2018

Programme Forecast

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 I have been asked as a client-planner to produce an impact analysis in the graphical form of a delay which has been raised by contractor accepted by the client. Apparently what comes to mind is an S curve to forecast new completion date considering ...

Aug 14, 2018

Inexusable Delay

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Hi,How to deal with the inexusable delay if the contractor does not deserve extension of time and money compensation? I mean if the contractor does not deserve the EOTand he can not meet the completion date, what does the owner do? best,Muataz

Aug 14, 2018

Cash Flow report without resource loading in P6

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Hi,How Can I prepare a monthly cash flow report(Budgeted vs Actual) without resource loading in P6, only by putting the budget against each activity?Thanks in advanceTony

Aug 15, 2018

[Q] Changing External Project Relationship to another project?

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Hi there everyone.  Most of the program I did and managed for several years are usually incorporated in a single master program so its very seldom (and been a while) that I had to use external logic between 2 or more projects.So my situation:Project ...

Aug 15, 2018

Retaining Activity ID logic

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I need some help please. I have two seperate schedules linked together by activity ID's, but on a monthly basis I will need to update and produce copy files and re-write the links because they are not retainied. The Project ID changes but not the Act...

Aug 15, 2018

Submittals, Resubmittals, and More Resubmittals

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Hello,The project I am working on has been bogged down during preconstruction and the Owner has directed us to add resubmittal activities for each submittal that had a revision.  Unfortunately, that is more or less all of them, and the previous sched...

Aug 17, 2018

Baseline in Primavera

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I have been trying for the last hour to update a baseline schedule, but everytime I assign it to my current schedule the baseline dates are incorrect. Even when I delete the baseline I still have a baseline start, finish etc. I've tried creating a ne...

Aug 17, 2018

converted PowerProject programme mixed duration formats

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I have converted a Powerproject file to msp, however the duration & total float formats are mixed, ie some are "15 d" and some are "3 w". I cannot see where you can change them all to days?? Andrew

Aug 17, 2018

Piping activities

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Hello friends... Can anyone provide me the activity details of a gas field compression piping as urgent. I’ll be oblized to get any feed back regarding construction plan for a piping project. Any additional guidelines or job knowledge also will highl...

Aug 18, 2018

Preferred progress Measurement Technique

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Hello I would like to solicit advice on preferred progress Measurement technique in P6. Pros and cons of physical vs duration etc. Would it.make sense to build resources loaded schedule (labor non labor) if the duration is 15 months. Which method wou...

Aug 20, 2018

Resource loading challenge

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Here's the challenge...You have 10 activities in your schedule.  They are all resource loading (not necessarily the same resources).  They have a 'prioritisation' code allocated to determine the sequence of preference for resource levelling.  There a...

Aug 22, 2018

P6 R17 licenses

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Hello Planners,I cannot have an answer from Oracle-Primavera people; I hope (I know) that PPlanners will be more reactive!One customer of mine is willing to use P6 with 5 - 10 schedulers and 10 - 20 viewers (people who need to display P6 projects on ...

Aug 23, 2018