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Exporting Resource Assignment fromp6 to excel

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Hi everyone,I tried copying the resource assignment from P6 to excel, when i do this the units dont get copied across and the date column dates back to 1990 and my projects starts in 2020.Not sure what am doing wrong.Please help.

Oct 22, 2020

Time Location Charting Mini-Course - Survey

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I will be creating a video mini-course on using Time Location Charts (aka Linear Schedules) to make better decisions and improve scheduling communication on projects, based on my practical experience over the past 20yrs in the industry, But first, I'...

Oct 23, 2020

WBS and Activity Names

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In a schedule with a structured WBS what is the best practice for the activity names - exampleWBS: Site1/Building5/Area3/Machine foundations/  Activity Name: Pour ConcreteOR: Activity Name: Pour Machine foundation concrete at Site1, Building5, Area3 ...

Oct 23, 2020

Assessing scheduling claims in PDF formats only

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Hi there,For people who have a very little knowledge of P6 Schedules: How do you argue that in order to assess schedule claims you need more than PDFs of the schedule.I need a very simple and preferably a visual illustration to demonstrate: Schedules...

Oct 29, 2020

Get the BOQ Magic Tool ( It’s free )

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The Magic Tools Family presents the BOQ Magic Tool ( It’s free )The seventh tool in the Magic Tools family collects all the divisions of the BOQ in one general table to facilitate the task of listing the activities of the schedule, pricing and price ...

Nov 1, 2020

P6 / Unifier

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I see a lot of posts regarding Unifier / P6. Is this because there are no issues, or it it just not getting used very much?

Nov 9, 2020

Interim Milestone Longest Path: Primavera P6

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Hello Everyone,A majority of the projects have interim milestones, and clients are now more interested to know the longest path for each interim milestone. P6 does not have readily available options to find the driving path of any activity, and some ...

Nov 9, 2020

Projected claim duration vs actual delay duration

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Not really a forensic delay but this is the only "claim" section.  There is a delay caused by a design issue, for example in the structural design review a change is made.  A notice of potential claim is filed.  Say the delay at that time is projecte...

Nov 13, 2020

Approved vs Received for Record vs other terminology

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Approved vs Received for Record , what is the difference?  which do you see / use more? what else do you see.  I have been on both ends of it.  Probably the one that I have seen and also use the most is Approved as Noted - because there are so many v...

Nov 13, 2020

Changing Primavera graphics using 3rd party software?

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What is the proper way to save on this forum - just hit save? if you do preview and save it seems to post it twice.  I always thought in theory I could change Primavera Graphics using CorelDRAW because you can convert any image into vector image. ..b...

Nov 15, 2020

P6 Assign Resource Dialogue Replace Button Greyed Out

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Hello,I've used the Replace Resource function in the Assign Resource dialogue several times but today the Replace button is greyed out and I cannot 'swap' resources.Below grab shows assigned resource and new resource, Replace button is greyed out.Any...

Nov 17, 2020