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Project Scheduler - Uploading of Actuals Costs into PS8

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Hi all,We have just migrated to SAP Business By Design, and I am struggling to download Actuals Labour sts and Material/Expense Costs into PS8. Im currently doing this manually by hand, and its not a small task, trust me.We used to do this in the old...

Jul 28, 2019

Activity cost as a percentage of the Project Budget Cost

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Hi guys, I would like to express an activity cost as a percentage of the project budget cost. For example Project A - Total Cost is $5000Project A has numerous activities and I would like a Column that expresses the Cost of the Activities as a percen...

Jul 29, 2019

Engineering Sequencing

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I am trying to schedule an EPC project but I am unsure of the logic that is incorpoarted in each discipline: Process, Mechanincal, Structure/Civil, instrumentation, Electrical, and Piping. Also, how are disciplines connected to one another? If anyone...

Jul 29, 2019

Project Summary Task Displaying Inaccurate Total Slack

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Recently my project schedule started displaying the wrong total slack number. In the screenshot below it should display -47 not -33. I am using the same calendar throughout the project. Please advise![[wysiwyg_imageupload:6903:]]

Jul 30, 2019

How to Password Protect .XER file??

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Firstly, yes I searched for my question/answer and found nothing useful.  I'm working with... an "interesting" client to say the least. PDF prints of my schedule are not sufficient, and they require the .xer file that I am working with. I absolutely ...

Aug 1, 2019

Actual Finish Dates On Team Member

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Without going into the background, when using Team Member, our Task Owners often need to update their tasks on a Wednesday and they need to mark a task as finished and give it an actual finish date of Thursday or Friday, one or two days in the future...

Aug 2, 2019

Planning Level

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Hi everybody,I have always a real trouble to define the Level of my planning or to discuss a plannig with our contractor, sometimes the planning that I have to discuss for me is a L4 and for the contractor is a L3, do you have an answer ?

Jun 21, 2020

Task Name / Date used in a movie column

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Hi,I'm managing several project schedules all of which have the milestone task GoLive. I want to be able to capture the date into a movie date column I've created. Is there a way to do this via a formula or other method?Many thanks for your help. ---...

Jun 24, 2020

EOT - Covid 19

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Good Afternoon Respected Planners, I am working on EPC Project guided by FIDIC form of contract Unlike NEC in FIDIC programmes cannot be rejected by client but there is a mechanism for acknowledging the programme on receipt from contractor every mont...

Jun 24, 2020

error - user is logged on

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I am using a standalone P6 v16.2 and cannot get logged on after my computer crashed.   I keep getting error message that 'user is logged on'.Any advice on how to clear this?

Jun 25, 2020

Activity ID in Project Online

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Hi,We are developing a solution when enterprise schedules could be reported via backend from Primavera and Project Online (Enterprise Master Schedule). Our solution already works with P6 schedules and we need to add all schedules from Project Online....

Jun 26, 2020

WBS Name Maximum Characters

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Hi All,When try to import a P6 XML file, show up an error window saying "Valvue too large for cloumn WBS_Name (actuall:116, maximum :100)", Any advice on how to solve it or where can adjust my WBS name Maximum Characters. thanks and regards

Jun 28, 2020

Revised Program of Work

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Good Day,If i want to submit a revised program of work for a counstruction project witch is four months to finish, do i have to submit the remaining activities only or the full program??regards,

Jul 1, 2020

Imported XER showing as 4 separate items in the EPS

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Afternoon all,I've been sent an XER file of a single plan, yet once the import is complete it's showing as 4 separate items in the enterprise screen.  Open one and they all open, try to delete one and all go.  It's behaving as one but appearing as 4....

Jul 6, 2020

Hide Non-working days in P6

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 Hello, Can i know if there is a way to hide the non working days using P6? For example Working day = Monday to FridaySaturday and Sunday are not working day  Activity A F/S Link to Activity B. Activity A finish on Friday.Activity B start on Monday b...

Jul 7, 2020

Asta Version 15.0.01 - Did the "Save As" an XER get removed ?

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Up until late May ’20 I could utilize a “Save As” function to retain a copy of an Asta Project as an XER File (for translation to P6).I am now on Version 15.0.01 – The "Save/Save As" drop down does not offer the ability to Save As and XER (only varia...

Jul 7, 2020

Importing excel dates- changing the 00:00 to 17:00

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Importing excel dates- changing the 00:00 to 17:00 .  The odd thing is when you look at the excel "bar" it shows 5/16/2018 12:00:00.  I have had schedule effected by the "hours" so i want it 5pm or 17:00.  I tried replace but there was no excel optio...

Jul 8, 2020