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Primavera P6 Release 8

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I attended a seminar relating to Primavera P6 Release 8. My apologies if I have missed a post that has been started already on this subject,  but I'm very interested in the overall view of users relating to the direction that the software appears to ...

Jan 20, 2011

Displaying different cost rates columns in Ghantt view

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May be dead easy fix but I can't seem to find the relevant columns for displaying different totals of work based upon different rates / cost types. I need to show effectively the values by WBS on the plan at say internal cost, selling cost etc. I hav...

Jan 20, 2011

FIDIC & The Red Book

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Hi Planners, I know it’s childish but would some one explain me the difference between FIDIC “CONDITIONS OF CONTRACT FOR CONSTRUCTION” and the “RED BOOK” Cheers

Jan 20, 2011

PLAN & SCHEDULE

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Come on Planners Let’s have a debate “Difference Detween a PLAN and a SCHEDULE; Plan A set of activities to achieve a targeted that may be a new construction, revamping, demolition, maintenance, production chain or a promotion scheme. Determine budge...

Jan 20, 2011

Clause 14 Program

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Hi planners, Why the Program of Work (construction schedule) is called "Clause 14 Program" while this is not clause 14, its clause 8.3. Also Recovery program is known as clause 14.2 Cheers - Tanveer

Jan 20, 2011

Project Value Improving Practices

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You may be interested to know that the Institution of Engineering and Technology have teamed up with the Association of Cost Engineers, tasked with delivering a suit of free events and on-line offerings to address value improving practices.  They are...

Jan 21, 2011

defaul in activity details

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Hi Planners,In p6 under Activity Details, can anyone give me an idea of the default configuration on Activity Type, Duration type & Percent complete type? Thanks,Nanding

Jan 22, 2011

Converting Current Project as baseline

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Hello Friends, I am facing a problem while assigning a baseline. I have a updated project schedule( in P6V7). Certain activities are completed, cetain in progress and others not started. Now I want to assign my current project as the baseline so that...

Jan 22, 2011

Free Float and LAG

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Hi All, 1st am New hear but i am so happy coz i am a part of this planning planet 2nd What is the Difference between Free Float and Lag? Regards,

Jan 23, 2011

Primavera P6 v.7 is not showing Unit of Measure ?

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Hi to all,Before i was using Primavera V6.2 than there was all Unit was available & right now i upgrade my Primavera from 6.2 to 6.7 here just these units are showing. I dont know, where all old units gone expect below mentioned units. Please if anyb...

Jan 23, 2011

Hotel Construction Schedule

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Hi all, I'm new to this forum and I'm looking forward to being a contributing member. I just got assigned to create a project for a small hotel and would your help. Can anyone send me a sample schedule they did so I can compare mine? If so send to : ...

Jan 23, 2011

Sorting and Filtering Capability

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To the PP Administrator, kindly include the filtering capabilty on the forum section, this help us easier to manage seaches for specific topic. thanks

Jan 23, 2011

Actual % Complete

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Dear all, How can I introduce actual % complete to MS Project to get Duration delay? Regards

Jan 23, 2011

Non Labor/Labor

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Hi, Is there a setting in Primavera that will allow the resource loading (Historgram) to pickup remaining non labor units instead of remaining labor units? I'm using PL/SQL Procedure and unix scripting to load a csv file from SAP to Primavera. When t...

Jan 24, 2011

how to copy the resources from one project to another

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Dear Guys,   I have to copy the resources of one project to another. both the projects  have same activities only the duration and the time is  changed. so what is the best way to do it.   thanks in  advance       Regards,

Jan 24, 2011

Best Planning Practice - Short Survey

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Good Morning I haver set up a very short survey to try to establish how many planners are using best practice in their daily work. There are only 6 subjects to answer so it will only take 5 minutes of your time. http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/26P5DTM ...

Jan 24, 2011

Unify Projects In Excel and Fix some problems

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Hi...well sometime ago i post a topic about unify a macro project cormformed by 9 independent projects and all them inserted in one master project and linked between them with external links...and i wanna unify in one only project with all activities...

Jan 24, 2011

how to shift the project from a perticular EPS

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Dear All how can we shift the project from EPS to another without exporting  and importing option. i mean can we do it directly by going to projects view      

Jan 25, 2011

how to shift the project from a perticular EPS

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Dear All how can we shift the project from EPS to another without exporting  and importing option. i mean can we do it directly by going to projects view      

Jan 25, 2011