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I want to add quantity(area in sqm or no.s)

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hi planners, how can i assign and define the area of a project..means the schedule for glazing of a building,the wbs prepared is based on floors- 1st floor,2nd floor etc.. i want to add and show the total area of glass using in each floor and no of d...

Nov 3, 2011

" Planned Dates"

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Please can soem one explaine to me what teh function of "Planned Dates" are in P6 and what benfit or use they are best used for ?

Nov 3, 2011

Deleting Calendars

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I have tried to delete global calendars but they will not delete due to being used on other projects.I have deleted all other projects and resource codes.They are not used any were else.I am thinking the problem is in the baselined project. How do i ...

Nov 3, 2011

Using the Fill Down Option In P6

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I have a calender setup that is showing standard for all my activities and what I want is to change them all to a 7 day working week. I have added the column calender in and then I chose one activity with the 7 day a week in it, but it is not allowin...

Nov 3, 2011

Approval Period Help

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I have an activity that when it finishes I allow 2 weeks approval until I then start my other activity below this.   How do i go about adding a 2 week approval period as I thought I just needed to add a constriant within my next activity saying start...

Nov 3, 2011

Urgent Assigning Planned Resource Hours not following fixed pattern

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 hello everyone  my design engineer gave me his planned hours.But his hours are not following any fixed pattern.Can someone help me how do i  add his hoours.I have add this picture to give you an idea of what I have to do These hours are planned hour...

Dec 8, 2011

% Completes in p6

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Hello, I'm new to this forum and have used p3 off and on years ago and had some exposure to p5, my background is more toward Project Controls - Cost management rather than scheduling.  Here is my issue/question:  I was told by the PM not to baseline ...

Dec 9, 2011

Filtering Activities

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Good day for you,I need to filter all the activities are in progress within certain period typically to that is highlighted with the progress spotlight option. Would you please advise how to create such a filter?Thanks.

Dec 10, 2011

Planned Percent Complete

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I'm using P6. I know that Primavera calculates Percents Complete like schedule%, unit%, physical% after starting the project and entering the actual values. but in the Planning Phase how can I get the planned % for each activity in every time period?

Dec 10, 2011

Filtering of activities in P6

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Hi Friends, How to fiilter the activities of a particular month, which neither starts nor ends in that particular month, but will be in progress stage during that month. Assume as a baaseline schedule For eg: Activity 1: Dec 2011 to Jan 2012 Act 2   ...

Dec 10, 2011

Fixed Units Duration type

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Dear friends I’m planning for a manufacturing company which manufactures Steel Structures. Here is description of what I should plan: Column: 200 ton Stairs:  400 ton Handrail:  500 ton I defined the amount of ton as the budgeted Units of resource fo...

Dec 11, 2011

Float calculation

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Hi. There are 4 milestones in a project(P6 R8). One finishes after the other but are not linked to each other. How do you calculate the float for each milestones. Usually the float is being calculated from the last milestone of the project. 

Dec 12, 2011

making the job of PM and PMO easier and more efficient

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Hello,   Here is a website that was launched a few weeks ago and specializes in making the job of PM and PMO easier and more efficient. The Add-ons and WebParts are Smart, useful , easy to install and fit to MS-Project, EPM and SharePoint. The site a...

Dec 12, 2011

Baseline Milestones

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Hi Everyone,                  Im just going to jump striaght to the point. Basically I have created a small programme for a construction job. I have created a baseline for this job to track against original dates. The problem is when i tick the boxes...

Dec 12, 2011

High Rise building Time schedule

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Nowadays many high rise building will be constructed in Gulf Area especially Qatar, the importance of the Time schedule is very high to monitor and control the project Progress. This forum aims to contains anything related to high rise building

Dec 12, 2011

Article on Critical Path Drag at Defense AT&L Magazine on-line

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Hi, all.If anyone is interested, Defense AT&L Magazine just my published my article "The Drag Efficient". To find it, scroll down and click the link at: http://www.dau.mil/pubscats/Pages/DefenseAtl.aspx Critical path drag is a metric that tells the s...

Dec 12, 2011

Change must end by date

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I recently built a schedule in P6 that had an must end by date of July 23, 2012.Shortly there after, additional work and time was added to the project.How can I add the 6 extra weeks to my schedule?  I need to move the must end by date out by an addi...

Dec 13, 2011

Deleting a project from Primavera Database

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Dear, We three are working in Primavera V6.7, sharing a common database. when i try to delete an existing project, it is showing other user is working on the same file, though it is closed. So i am not able to delete. how to fix this problem...? If a...

Dec 13, 2011

MS Project 2010 - How to Share Schedule

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Have used MS Project 2003 for years.  On that, when you send an mpp file to someone, they can open and make edits, but like I said, new to Project 2010.  Anyway, when I sent an mpp file to my Project Manager it came through read only with the tool ri...

Dec 13, 2011