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Constrains

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I have a problem and I want to explain this with an example, if anyone could help me, I would be very glad There is a A activity, this activity starts at 1 february and finish 1 april according to schedule and duration is 60 days ( 1 april - 1 februa...

Feb 13, 2012

Free Float higher than Total Float

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Primavera did it again. How can that Free Float is Higher than Total Float (for activities with Total Float >=0). It is sufficient that, inside the schedule, you have some activities with negative Total Float. Has anybody experienced the same problem...

Feb 13, 2012

Calculate Finish Dates on P6.

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Hi,I give an example.  Let's say i have an activity which start date is January 2, 2012 with 4 days duration finish date is January 6, 2012.  The successor activity must start on January 7, 2012 with Finish to Start relationship.  But all activities ...

Feb 13, 2012

Budget at Completion vs Budgeted Expense Cost

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Hi there, In one of my many projects,  I have a Budgeted Expense Cost for a selected activity (let’s say $500K)  but  Budgeted At Completion column is still zero.I have more than 15 projects with almost the same structure with expense cost which do n...

Feb 14, 2012

activities having more negative total float, than summary total float

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I am having difficulty in understanding, because i received a schedule in P6 and just detailed more, i added some activities. but when I scheduled it and take a closer look on the floats, one activity ( precomm,and commissioning) are having -86, but ...

Feb 14, 2012

Design Program by phase and trade

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Hello everyone!!! Would you please help me with a Building Design Program dependencies between Architectural, Structural, MEP and Interiors through Concept-Schematic-Detail Design and Construction Documentation?   Thank you for your help!!!!

Feb 14, 2012

Migrating files from one laptop to another

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Hi all I'm liking the Oracle support who got me up and running with my old P3.1 software on my new laptop with no fuss whatsoever.. Is anyone able to explain how I can migrate my old files across please ? I've had a look at the files themselves and t...

Feb 14, 2012

Completion and start dates on P6 schedule

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Hi,For some reason the P6 installed on my laptop calculates start date as finish date completes.  For example:Activity 1, Duration 4 days, Start January 2, 2012, Finish January 5, 2012 Activity 2 Start must be January 6, 2012 since it's successor to ...

Feb 14, 2012

Resource Spreading

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Hello Experts, Can any body please share the resource spread sheet in Xcel with formulas?Do me this favour With Regards,Ashik

Feb 14, 2012

data processing in P6 R7

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I was wondering if anyone knows where data is processed? Is it on primavera server, web serve? When using both thick client , citix and web access? Just trying to decide which solutions would get better performance.

Feb 15, 2012

Reource schedule

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Dear All, Can we do in Primavera the following condition, if yes please explain.\ Say we have planned for 350 Sqm Shuttering to be completed in two weeks. Planned quantity for 1st week is 200 Sqm & that for the 2nd week is 150 Sqm. Requirement of dai...

Feb 15, 2012

Budget total cost redistribution and Consequences..

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Dear Schedulers,I have project with 4000 activities amount 72M and my PM he just found out we will bill our subcontractor according the values and percentage we have in our P6 schedule, which is not equivalent with what they done for every month for ...

Feb 15, 2012

Time Constraints vs Date Constraints

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In some jobs I need to model no-earlier/no-latter than time constraints separate or in combination to date constraints but most software do implement date constraint mixing it with time.For example because of hot whether conditions some concrete pour...

Feb 15, 2012

Baseline Plan ?

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Hello . I am facing a problem with baseline ...I have Maintained & assigned the baseline the Schedule ..but when I am sending this schedule by importing it to .xer file & sending it to my client via mail , When Client open  the schedule then there is...

Feb 16, 2012

PPM event code CRDC-2892-7

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Dear all, I'm getting trouble with PPM rel 8.2 thus I'd like to ask you all for solutions. During my PPM using, there's always a message notify "Event code" error. At the first time, I thought it caused by my using version wasn't completely compatibl...

Feb 16, 2012

Project Scheduling Rules, a free ebook

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 This free 45-page eBook is a collection of 19 essential rules, based on PMI and DoD standards and codes, which I find very important and useful. I tried to explain the reason behind each one and the way you can apply them in your schedules.You can f...

Feb 16, 2012