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At completeion cost not calculated automatically

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Hi, For cost monitoring we decided to record actual cost especially against material. On a demo project I loaded some material on various activities and to record actual cost I unchecked both “Auto compute Actual” and  “Calculate costs from units” be...

Mar 16, 2011

example of Full Design and build construction project WBS

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Hello,i am new on this forumi have to build a WBS for a construction project including design and procurementi don't know exactly where to insert the shop drawing in my WBS, and how to develop the constrcution phase,here is my proposition, if somebod...

Mar 16, 2011

A place to store files

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Dear all, Hello, I want to suggest making a place in the web site to upload and download files between members. Thanks Samer SalmaSenior Planning EngineerKCT

Mar 16, 2011

PROJ Environment Variable is too long

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Hi all, When i try to re-schedule me program (F9) i get the following error; "PROJ Environment Variable is too long " Anybody no how i resolve this issue as i cant re-schedule until its done!   Thanks in advance   Mike

Mar 17, 2011

Delay Analysis

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Sir' are ther any video tutorial using project 2010 or 2007 to make delay analysis thanks

Mar 17, 2011

Importing from Excel spreasheet into P6

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Hi there,Could someone please help me? I need to import an old programme in Excel spreasheet format into P6. I've got that error message that "The User Preferences used to create this Excel file could not be found. Importing this file could corrupt y...

Mar 17, 2011

EV Calulations

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Just would like to find out can you set the earned value calculations to use resource units? ev=units vs time. if yes where do i change this, or can you only base the earned value as ev= cost vs time.

Mar 17, 2011

EV Calulations

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Just would like to find out can you set the earned value calculations to use resource units? ev=units vs time. if yes where do i change this, or can you only base the earned value as ev= cost vs time.

Mar 17, 2011

Locking Dead Threads

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Hi PP Admin We are getting a lot of new members reviving long dead threads - they seem to search a topic and then pitch in regardless of when the last message was posted. Spammers seem to be doing this quite a lot. Can we have a system whereby a thre...

Mar 18, 2011

Available (Free) Partial Workload Distribution

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I am looking for a way to display on a diagram the values of available resource workloads distribution. For example by looking at the following table we will see that for Day 3 or D3 that there are 2 resources A available 100 of their time, 2 resourc...

Mar 18, 2011

Micosoft Professional 2007

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Hi   As an occassional user of Microsoft i have a query   Is there any way of setting up week numbers ie period numbering options from a specific date ie project start date   Any help is appreciated   Thanks   Regards   [Topic moved to MSP forum by G...

Mar 18, 2011

linked milestone

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Dear, I have the following questions. milestones to be linked with a final milestone necessarily? I am doing a Schedule that when linked the final milestone milestones and critical path shows only the final milestone, despite the fact that there are ...

Mar 18, 2011

Filters/Layouts when import p3 into p6

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Dear All, Would u pls help me with my question... Suppose u build a schedule in p3.... u orginised by some groups, u applied some filters.... and eventually u come up with your layouts.Now when u open this layout in p3 it is opend exactly is same org...

Mar 18, 2011

Purchase P6 Contractor or P6 Professional

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Evening All, beside limitations to number of activities are there any issues with going with P6 Contractor, small company (myself), or should I bit the bullet and go all in, also is there any reason to wait on a upcoming versionThanks                ...

Mar 20, 2011

How to add activity by global change

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Dear All, can anybody suggest a possible solution for the below query.... i wanted to add one acitivity(Job Description )which can be a WBS SUMMARY OR LEVEL OF EFFORT activity. this activity has to be in the begning of all the Jobs( there are around ...

Mar 20, 2011

comparison in (P6) ???

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Good morning planners  I faced problem ,How can I make comparison in (P6) between Baseline Schedule and Update Schedule so I can display in the program? please advise 

Mar 20, 2011

Partner needed

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Hi, I'm looking for a partner to discuss about planning. I'm an Asta user with the knowledge all the basic knowledge that a planner need to know such as progress line, baseline, resources, labour, s-curve, macro etc. I'm currently looking for someone...

Mar 21, 2011

Updating Physical % Complete with MS Excel & P6

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Hello, Summary: I am updating numerous traits of selected activities ( including physical % complete) for a project by exporting from P6 to Excel 2007 on Windows XP, updating the traits (including physical % complete), and then importing back into P6...

Mar 21, 2011