Search

Level of Effort (LOE) for Cost Summation

Forum Topic

Hi I am using P6, i have following problemI have huge project with many activities, i want to add up duration of few consectivite activities , I have defined a dummy activity , assigned it a Level of effort activity type (LOE) , and assigned SS to Pr...

Mar 29, 2012

Material Resource Histogram in P6

Forum Topic

Freinds,Please suggest me how can I copy and paste resource usage spreadsheet from P6 to excel or export it to excel, considering that the type of resource is MATERIAL.

Mar 29, 2012

Problem with scheduling and durations

Forum Topic

Hi all, I have inherited a program from a colleague which is based on 7day x 12hrs calendar. When i am adding durations and relationships into the program, they seem to be extending past the dates required. For example;   Activity 1 = 2 days Activity...

Mar 29, 2012

Problem with scheduling and durations

Forum Topic

Hi all, I have inherited a program from a colleague which is based on 7day x 12hrs calendar. When i am adding durations and relationships into the program, they seem to be extending past the dates required. For example;   Activity 1 = 2 days Activity...

Mar 29, 2012

Retained Logic & Progress Override

Forum Topic

Hi all planners,I was studying Retained Logic and Progress Override options in P6. And understood well about Retained Logic also I understood that the result under Progress Override are not realistic. Then, the question raised that if the results are...

Mar 29, 2012

Problem with relationships to completed/in progress tasks

Forum Topic

Hi I hope this is a simple problem that can be easily fixed!I have relationships to tasks in my project, however, when I set the task to started or finished, and then schedule the project, it seems to lose the relationship to the predecessor and seem...

Mar 29, 2012

Primavera P6 Pro R8.1

Forum Topic

Hi , Recently i have been migrating from MS projects to Primavera P6 Pro R8.1.I accidentally deleted all the projects instead of one. Since then i am not able to create new project, nor i am able to import any from MSP. Also the Projects menu is seen...

Mar 30, 2012

Planning Skills Recognition

Forum Topic

Hi Everyone,   I was wondering if there is any reason Planners as a whole arent on the Australian Skilled Occupation List? I cant find anything that would relate to planning on the skills list. http://www.immi.gov.au/skilled/_pdf/sol-schedule1.pdf I ...

Mar 30, 2012

Canada wide Salary / hourly rates for Intermediate

Forum Topic

Hi guys,I am new in Canada and not familiar with the ongoing rates for Planners and Schedulers Canada wide. I do know that it varies between provinces with Calgary being the highest. Would anyone be kind enough to post the rough brackets of reasonabl...

Mar 30, 2012

S Curve for Cash Flow

Forum Topic

 HiCan anybody guide me how to represent Cash Flow with P6 in Bar Chart & S Curve format.I check the option in tracking but it represent only Resources in S Curve format once choose Project Cost it shows in table form. Please guide me.Thanks

Mar 30, 2012

MS Project 2010 Tutorial

Forum Topic

Introduction Microsoft Project -MSP- is a project management software developed by Microsoft. MSP is designed to help project managers in developing plans, tracking progress, managing the budget, assigning resources to tasks and analyzing workloads ....

Mar 31, 2012

Open ended tasks on critical path

Forum Topic

Hi all,I have an issue with open ended tasks ina plan. I'm analysing the plan with Primavera risk analyser and the open ended tasks in the plan are lying on the critical path.What's the best way to deal with this, please? Get the master Primavera pla...

Mar 31, 2012

copy EPS

Forum Topic

Dear Friends, i will use new computer and wanna to copy my EPS including all the sub projects from my old computer to the new computer. any one have easy way to do this in 1 step instead of exporting one by one and importing them again? Thanks

Apr 2, 2012

Costs, Costs Costs!!

Forum Topic

Hello I am having a nightmare with costs on PrimaveraI have entered some resources against activitiesActivity 1  = 10 days - Resource = Labour cost = £1000Activity 2 = 10 days - Resource = Plant cost = £1000Both activities are scheduled to happen in ...

Apr 2, 2012

Project Controls Certification

Forum Topic

Hello,I'm new to Planning Planet and to the world of Project Controls. I would like to gain knowledge and certification in this field of work. Can anyone point me in the right direction as to where I can gain some certfication in Project Controls her...

Apr 2, 2012

Calendar Days

Forum Topic

I use a 7 days calendar for my project and i would like to see P6 calculates the days by calendar days.  But the application is still calculating by working days even my calendar has no non-working days.  Please help!

Apr 2, 2012

Calendar Days

Forum Topic

I use a 7 days calendar for my project and i would like to see P6 calculates the days by calendar days.  But the application is still calculating by working days even my calendar has no non-working days.  Please help!

Apr 2, 2012

Exporting P6 into Visio

Forum Topic

Is anyone able to assist in the process of being able to export select P6 tasks into a Visio Timeline? Currently I am entering in the tasks and dates manually (and then updating the tasks manually) but was wondering if it was possible to have this do...

Apr 3, 2012