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Link to first occurrence of an event

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What is your preferred method to link a task that starts after the first occurrence of a series of events?Example - you have a schedule to deliver six widgets A1-A6.  After the first widget is delivered a widget support period A7 starts.  But you don...

Nov 13, 2023

Using Task Work Feature

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Greetings everyone,May i ask your expertice about AstaPP?WH is 8:00am - 5:00pm, Building Construction, Creation of BL Sched.I want to use the Task Work feature in AstaPP, while doing it, i noticed that it makes my activies to finish in-between the da...

Nov 20, 2023

OPC FTE

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Does anybody know the following.1) Way to convert XER to XML without Client.2) How does teh FTE calculation work in OPC and can it be adjusted like P63) Does OPC have it's ?

Nov 28, 2023

Work Performance Management (WPM)

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Work Performance Management (WPM) is a new project controls tool that is being developed by Mosaic Project Services. WPM is designed to calculate the current status, and predicted completion date for any project in a consistent, repeatable, and defen...

Nov 29, 2023

Best practice vs Best workarounds

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I have noticed that planners often mix up ‘Best scheduling practice’ with ‘Best workarounds’ in a particular scheduling tool. When they heavily apply one of the scheduling tools, they start to believe that the necessary workarounds are the best plann...

Nov 30, 2023

WBS Horizontal and Vertiacal arrangment

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WBS view is configured with Horizontal and Vertical arrangments for each WBS element. Is it a way to save arrangments? Or when WBS layout is changed the P6 user need manaully arrange all WBS elements again? Regards, Alex Lyaschenko

Nov 30, 2023

Please explain earned and actual hours

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Hi, I'm new withing planning, and I can't seem to figure out what the differences between planning qty, earned qty and actual qty is. Example:Current Budget for welding is 20 760 hoursPlan Qty = 1 810Earn Qty = 504Exp Qty = 1696 And planned man power...

Nov 30, 2023

Which P6 version/release do you use now?

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Is anyone updating Primavera to the latest release?Organisations I am working with typically use a 3-5-year-old Primavera version.   Even when an upgrade is considered usually organisations don't feel comfortable upgrade P6 to the latest release. Is ...

Nov 30, 2023

should likely error in APPROVED baseline be allowed to stand?

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should likely error in APPROVED baseline be allowed to stand?  In a sequence of work on the critical path is a 5 day "sub-contractor mobilization" activity.  Seems like an obvious error - they could likely mob anytime - such as - as the predecessor w...

Nov 30, 2023

Critical activities with Negative float

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Hi everyone, I know that it is not best practice to have a mandatory finish constraint and negative float on your programme, but contractually we have to have those two in our programmes. Now the question is P6 shows all the negative activities as cr...

Dec 3, 2023

How WPM Works

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Work Performance Management (WPM) is a methodology developed by Mosaic Project Services Pty Ltd to offer a simple, robust solution to the challenges of providing rigorous project controls information on projects that cannot (or are not) using CPM and...

Dec 5, 2023

what if the baseline is found to be wrong?

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what if the baseline is found to be wrong?  -  can you then claim that the project is behind or ahead when the baseline critical path has changed?

Dec 5, 2023

Global and Project calendars

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Hi AllHow do you tell whether an assigned calendar on P6 is the global or the project calendar if you have the same calendar name under the global and the project calendar libraries?

Dec 6, 2023

Leveling issues, "pinning activities in place"

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Hello, For a while, I have been facing some issues with leveling resources on P6. I understand the principle upon which it calculates start dates, but I'm facing issues "pinning" some activities down and forcing start and finish dates. For example I ...

Dec 11, 2023