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Fixed Units Duration type

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Dear friends I’m planning for a manufacturing company which manufactures Steel Structures. Here is description of what I should plan: Column: 200 ton Stairs:  400 ton Handrail:  500 ton I defined the amount of ton as the budgeted Units of resource fo...

Dec 11, 2011

Float calculation

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Hi. There are 4 milestones in a project(P6 R8). One finishes after the other but are not linked to each other. How do you calculate the float for each milestones. Usually the float is being calculated from the last milestone of the project. 

Dec 12, 2011

making the job of PM and PMO easier and more efficient

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Hello,   Here is a website that was launched a few weeks ago and specializes in making the job of PM and PMO easier and more efficient. The Add-ons and WebParts are Smart, useful , easy to install and fit to MS-Project, EPM and SharePoint. The site a...

Dec 12, 2011

Baseline Milestones

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Hi Everyone,                  Im just going to jump striaght to the point. Basically I have created a small programme for a construction job. I have created a baseline for this job to track against original dates. The problem is when i tick the boxes...

Dec 12, 2011

High Rise building Time schedule

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Nowadays many high rise building will be constructed in Gulf Area especially Qatar, the importance of the Time schedule is very high to monitor and control the project Progress. This forum aims to contains anything related to high rise building

Dec 12, 2011

Article on Critical Path Drag at Defense AT&L Magazine on-line

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Hi, all.If anyone is interested, Defense AT&L Magazine just my published my article "The Drag Efficient". To find it, scroll down and click the link at: http://www.dau.mil/pubscats/Pages/DefenseAtl.aspx Critical path drag is a metric that tells the s...

Dec 12, 2011

Change must end by date

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I recently built a schedule in P6 that had an must end by date of July 23, 2012.Shortly there after, additional work and time was added to the project.How can I add the 6 extra weeks to my schedule?  I need to move the must end by date out by an addi...

Dec 13, 2011

Deleting a project from Primavera Database

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Dear, We three are working in Primavera V6.7, sharing a common database. when i try to delete an existing project, it is showing other user is working on the same file, though it is closed. So i am not able to delete. how to fix this problem...? If a...

Dec 13, 2011

MS Project 2010 - How to Share Schedule

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Have used MS Project 2003 for years.  On that, when you send an mpp file to someone, they can open and make edits, but like I said, new to Project 2010.  Anyway, when I sent an mpp file to my Project Manager it came through read only with the tool ri...

Dec 13, 2011

Cost Loading

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Hi,I am trying to resource/cost load a project.I have 5 activities in various WBS that have 1 total cost. So I was told to use a level of effort and load the cost and resource onto the level of effort. This is exactly what I did. However, when I look...

Dec 13, 2011

Convert WBS to activity code in P6

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dear plannersi made a small tutorial inhttp://www.plannertuts.com/tutorials/how-to-convert-a-projects-wbs-to-activity-codes-in-oracle-primavera-p6-464/perhaps you will find it useful. regardsmimoune djouallah

Dec 14, 2011

Exported dates in Excel

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Morning all, I've been asked by a chap in our office about exported data in Excel. He's exported his activities into excel but the dates appear to be in Lotus format having a ' at the start of the date making calculation difficult and also including ...

Dec 14, 2011

Urgent Resource Limits Dips on Public Holidays

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Hi I am not able to shows dips in resource limits on public holidays , I have already assigned public holidays in project calendar[[wysiwyg_imageupload:846:]]   When i change the time line from week to month I have seen strange ups and down on my res...

Dec 14, 2011

Higgs Boson

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Guys , let me know your thoughts on the Higgs Boson.  10 billion dollar question??Is this experiment worth it? BRSan

Dec 14, 2011

Difficult Layout Question

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Can we do layout in Primavera where we show spreadsheet view on top and underneath we show resource histogram I try to create this in excel to give you clear pitcure of my question [[wysiwyg_imageupload:849:]]

Dec 14, 2011