Hi!Please need help.After exporting a P6 project to MPP, several activities durations are showing incorrect durations - however you tried to correct the start and finish dates the duration stays incorrect? Thank you in advance!
Managing Baselines in Primavera P6 Professional is a slightly different process than you would encounter in file based tools such as Microsoft Project. When you save a baseline in Microsoft Project, you are saving copies of dates, durations, resource...
While using ALAP constraint, Could someone please suggest how to change the setting to conduct dates calculation from Free slack variable instead of Total slack ? Thnx in advance, Dipak
Here is a useful article about Tunnel Construction and the use of Linear Project...Tunnel construction is strongly impacted by soil classification determining the way of building the tunnel and also the production rates. Wrong assumptions and estimat...
Hey everybody, long time lurker but first time poster because I wanted to poll the forum’s collective wisdom. I’m currently employed by a Construction Consulting Company that does both scheduling and forensic scheduling analysis and I’ve spent the la...
All,when I press f9 for re-scheduling, circle spins but no progress periods appear on which I do reschedule.Where these progress periods hide during pressing F9.Please Help.Mike: Plz look at this. Its urgentRegards,Chris
Here's an article discussing whether or not you need to be a Subject Matter Expert to run a project? http://ow.ly/r3I1c
In my schedule after updating previou sactivites with delays,, the original duration of some of successor actitvites changes to zero.Why it happens so and what is solution.
Dear All, I am preparing commissioning schedule for 4000 MW combined cycle schedule. It has a configuration of 2GTX2HRSGX1ST total 6 groups. I am in the dialema that which software will be helpful to me in the log run if i want to monitor it on weekl...
Dear All, Whenever i assign last project updates for current month baseline all the actuals till last months updates gives wrong dates. It creats lots of confusion whenever i wanted to compare the current status with the last months status. Please he...
Mr Vladimir,I've worked for a drilling rig fabricator. My company has along time used P6 for planning manner so far. Next week, I want to convince my boss to replace with Spider Project. Can you please give me some material, key points. Thanks,Tuan
In which folder are the projects (samples or working files) stored? For example, in P3 my understanding is that these project files were stored under the Projects folder within the P3Win directory. In P6, where are the project files stored?
Here's a look at the three dimensions of trust in Project Management http://ow.ly/rah1F
Greetings all. I’m a new user of P6 rev7 and am having a challenge which I hope someone will help me with please. I would like to create a report to see resources man-hours, for a specific time period, of only the projects I have open. But, for some ...
I havent been on PP for a while, so I was shocked to see only 10 jobs posted, what has happened to PP? you use to be buzing with work. Please dont come with the quiet market excuse as other sites have several vacancies per day, are you steering away ...
I am assigning several resources to the same activity with budgeted quantities, progress % and remaining hours to complete.I then need to view each of these resource assignments using the "resource usage profile" view so I can see the bars showing th...
Is there a Primavera setting that will keep deleted Activity IDs from being automatically generated in Primavera 6 Rev 8.2? We normally utilize the "auto-numbering" capabilities within Primavera, but have noticed that deleted Activity IDs are being r...
I am trying ti establish a filter for hiding the activities in a schedule that are 100%.That is easy.My schedule is broken down by 4 areas.As part of that filter, I still need to show all activities (including the ones that are 100% complete) in 1 of...
Hi,I was playing with priorities and found the following effect, which I can’t logically explain.Just wondering whether it “works as designed” and id "yes", then what is the reason for it?Effect descriptionRule 1. Any activity, which has in it’s succ...
Hi,I have encountered people (planners & non planners) with 2 schools of thoughts when it comes to updating programme. 1) First Type (Static type) " The baseline programme logic and relationship is fixed, you can't change when updating."" Update the ...