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Primavera P6 - Stand alone version, Logo printing problems

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I need some help, anyone advise me???..... We generally run P6 through a web based provider however a colleague has a standalone copy (P6.2.1) he prefers to use for speed. The problem is that when he creates a view with the Company Logo attached in t...

Sep 12, 2011

Primavera P6 - Stand alone version, Logo printing problems

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I need some help, anyone advise me???..... We generally run P6 through a web based provider however a colleague has a standalone copy (P6.2.1) he prefers to use for speed. The problem is that when he creates a view with the Company Logo attached in t...

Sep 12, 2011

Primavera P6 Professional R8.1 - High Res Screen Grabs

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Hi Guys, In case you haven't seen the latest version...Here's a bunch of high res screen shots from various windows of the latest version of Primavera P6 Professional  R8.1. Click on these images to enlarge them; you should get a good idea what to ex...

Sep 12, 2011

P6.V7 Software Bug Found... causing PMDB corrupted!!!

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Hello Planning Folks,       Yesterday I found a dangerous bug in P6.V7 about the experiment of using filter by below condition                                            BL Project Total Float < 0 Then clicked OK, the Error Popup Message is shown eve...

Sep 13, 2011

Resourcing on a 24hr Calendar

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Hey All. I'm resourcing up a schedule in MS Project on a 24 hour calendar, but in the Resource/Task Usage Views it splits the first and last days of the resource usage 0.67 and 0.33 adding a calendar day of working time. Is there a clever way to avoi...

Sep 13, 2011

Earned value calculation

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Hi, Is it possible to assign separate EV calculation method to different activities. For eg: Act1: Activity percent complete Act2: 0/100 method Act3: 50/50 method etc.. or only one method for the whole project?

Sep 13, 2011

P6 Rel 7 Lag

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Dear planners;When I run the update on P6 rel 7 , some activities don't start directly after the precedor one (See pic below)!The lag on the relationship=0, and no Constraint.Why I get this kind of probleme? Regards,

Sep 13, 2011

FOR project controls engineers

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Dear all, What is your company's training program for a new project controls engineer.? Please share with me your experiance :)  

Sep 13, 2011

Firing an event when pasting a task – possible?

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I would like to write some VBA code which fires when a task is pasted. The reason is that users quite often create new tasks by copying existing ones, forgetting that these already contain values, e.g. baselines, notes, etc.The code should fire when ...

Sep 13, 2011

XER file for Oil & Gas Industries activities

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I have experience in primavera nearly 12 years in civil works. Basically I am mechanical engg. Now I want to join Oil & Gas industries. I need XER file for Oil & Gas industries, so any members can help me in this regards. For that I shall be very tha...

Sep 13, 2011

FIDIC 1987 Clause 13.1

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Dear Sirs,This is my first request for your thoughts on below matter:Our Contract is based on 4th edition of FIDIC 1987 as further amended in 1992. Broad changes made by way of Conditions of Particular Applications. It’s a re-measurement contract.We ...

Sep 14, 2011

Resource Usage Profile

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Guys, I have developed a schedule in P 6.0, with resource loading. Following is the problem I am facing when viewing the Resource Usage Profile. The calender for both activities and resource selected is common 7 x 24 hrs. I have say a resource mason ...

Sep 14, 2011

Summary Task % Complete

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I applied dummy resource & unit cost, it is giving schedule % complete & actual % complete in the summary task  , i tried to find out the basis of this summary task % complete, coulld not find the base, Please advise me experts....what is the formula...

Sep 14, 2011

TWO Shifts

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Dear Friends I have completed the base program for my new project & I loaded the resourse also... Just now I got the call from my manager to reduce the duration and make an accelarated program. I know that by reducing the duration and increase the ma...

Sep 14, 2011

How to handle material cost in P6

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Hi Ladies and Gents, I have imported a Bill of Material into my projectplan under WBS section purchasing. I want to allocate planned material costs to each item as they are procured and track the delivery to site. It seems I cannot input planned mate...

Sep 15, 2011

Default units/time change while importing

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Dear Firends,We are working in Oil & Gas EPC Project in the Middle East.We are facing a strange problem(!) with Primavera 6.0 Release 7.0.0.When we imported a project it shows defaults units/time as 1/d for all labor resources. But when when the same...

Sep 15, 2011

Default units/time change while importing

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Dear Firends,We are working in Oil & Gas EPC Project in the Middle East.We are facing a strange problem(!) with Primavera 6.0 Release 7.0.0.When we imported a project it shows defaults units/time as 1/d for all labor resources. But when when the same...

Sep 15, 2011

does anyone have an idea about CNFF\-3348-2 error?

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Hi all,Previously, I have created a forum topic related to this issue but unfortunately I could not get any satisfactory answers. That's why I felt like consulting to the forum once more.When I try to import a XML file created by MSP to P6, I get thi...

Sep 15, 2011

MSP 2010 - User-Controlled Scheduling

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Dear fellow PP members,With the introduction of MSP 2010, Microsoft came up with a new feature called “User-Controlled Scheduling”.Since this name suggests that -until now- users had no control over a MSP schedule whatsoever, I immediately started to...

Sep 15, 2011

Shutdown schedule MS Project

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Hi all, I am looking to network with other Shutdown Planners/Schedulers working on Gas Production Plants

Sep 16, 2011