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Cost overrun

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Dear All I am working on a project which started 2012 & finish date is 2019, Mining project. I prepared the project & got all cost variance as per planned & actual with delay analysis. Now we need to find the [strong]cost overrun [/strong]compare wit...

Mar 24, 2014

BL Project Finish not matching BL Project Early Finish

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I am trying to show my baseline bars and it seems they are pulling from the BL Project Finish dates which are not correct and do not match the BL Project Early Finish Dates 1. How can I correct this so my BL Project Finish dates match the BL Project ...

Mar 24, 2014

Assigning Critical Path Manually !

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Hi everybody .. Is it OK to choose certain activities and make them critical instead of just relying on P6 critical path calculation using total float or longest path? Why we should do this? and finally what is the best teqnique to do so?  Thanks in ...

Mar 25, 2014

Budgeted units unable to edit

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I couldn't able to edit Budgeted units or Remaining units in Resource assignments window. However same can be done in Resource usage spreadsheet. Why? How to overcome this?I logged in with full rights (both admin superuser & project superuser). I use...

Mar 26, 2014

Showing activities that have slipped since last update

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I am just getting used to P6 & am still finding out lots of new thimngs that can be done. I have vague memories of using P3 so if someone could give me some help that would be great. I wanted to know if I could set a up a view which showed all activi...

Mar 26, 2014

Skills For Managing Risk

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Here's an article exploring the skills needed for managing risk http://ow.ly/v3fZE

Mar 27, 2014

Activity Code does not indent in Group and Sort

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Hello Planners,Is there any reason why a Project Activity Code would not indent in the Group & Sort dialog?I can check the Indent checkbox of all the Activity Codes but one in my project, and I cannot see any reason whyThanks for your help,Alexandre

Mar 27, 2014

PXRPT Tables details

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I am unable to find below tables from PMDB or ODS schema and Request to help from where the below primavera columns are picking up the data.  Primavera column namesPXRPT schema column namesPXRPT schema Table nameBL1 Start  BL1 Finish  Variance BL1 – ...

Mar 28, 2014

Using Global Change in P6 v8.2

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Hi everybody,  I'm trying to use the global change (P6 v8.2) to calculate the required manpower in terms of "Budgeted Nonlabor Units" for example: I want the total Budgeted Labor Units = Budgeted Nonlabor units / 2. But I am usually getting the below...

Mar 30, 2014

Primavera P6 Baseline Backups

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Primavera P6 Baseline Backups - Keep your database clean while maintaining backups of your projects http://ow.ly/vdcPZ

Mar 31, 2014

What is a Good Project Management Software?

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I have a team for 55 resources who are seated at various locations. Monitoring the project progress becomes very difficult, even with regular update and daily scrums. So looking for a tool which can - Manage project effectively and efficiently. - Tim...

Mar 31, 2014

Earned Value becom zero..Help!

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Dear Planners Earned value labor unit become "0" when baseline is assigned. However baseline is removed, eanred value labor unit become certain value. I don't know why earned value labor unit is changed by baseline. Please help.

Apr 1, 2014

As bulit but for

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Can I confirm if this is collapse as built ? I also heard there's a forward path and backward path method ? But from my understanding collapse as built is a backward method . So is as built but for a term used for forward path method. Is this method ...

Apr 2, 2014

COPY EPS with All Projects

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Hi,I will use new computer and i need to copy all projects with the same EPS to the new one. is there anyway easier than taking the projects one by one?

Apr 2, 2014

Day Name in Date Format

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HelloAppreciate if members can help me to display the date format with day name in the date fields e.g.Wed 02 Apr 14as I could not find this format available in User Preferences.Thanks

Apr 2, 2014

How to Change Y axis in Primavera Histogram

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Hi Every one I need help I build a schedule assing budgeted man-hours and resource. How Can I show no of mens required iI put the time interval 50 hrs per week as we are working 50hr a week my time scale is in week but didnt work out it shows hours o...

Apr 3, 2014

Integrating Project Plans to create Master Programme Plan

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Hi,I have several project plans, created and updated by several other planners, I need to pull them together in one master schedule (a programme plan) to understand how overall programme is performing.I tried amalgamating them all together by creatin...

Apr 4, 2014