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Adding Same Resource more than once

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Hihow are you guys.I am facing one problem.I want to assign same resource more than once in one activity.e.g there are 20 Labors in one activity ( 100 dollar / day/ labor) . how to assign this 20 Labor to single activity.Kindly help.Planning_guy

Jun 28, 2011

Site Planner V Planner within a Consultancy

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I'd be interested to hear from peoples opinions and hopfully experiences between working in a big consultancy as a planner and working as a site planner? Let me know what you think and which one you'd choose.   Thanks,   Chris

Jun 28, 2011

Editing User Rights in Asta PowerProject Enterprise

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Hi All, I am looking for some help, i have been using Asta for around 18 Months and have recently been given the task of improving the way we use Power Project, it is on Enterprise. I have reduced the amount of user views we had in the sytem (Approx....

Jun 28, 2011

Role in Construction Law / Dispute Resolution

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I am interested to direct my career into the area of Construction Law / Dispute Resolution over the coming years, and am wondering what experience / background I would need.   Is it as clear cut as requiring a Construction Law degree or are their any...

Jun 28, 2011

RIB

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Dear allOur company is going to introduce new software RIB .How useful is this software ?is there any drawbacks for this software? & how it different from CCS CANDY .i am familiar with CCS CANDY.I am from Contracts department RegardsSankar

Jun 28, 2011

Master plan (using MSP)

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Hi Guys   Any idea on how to import key activities/Milestones from a detailed Programme plan to a Consolidated master plan without manually retyping it. I know you can import the whole plan and if there is a change it changes in the Mater. i dont wan...

Jun 28, 2011

Critical Activities

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Hi ,Quest: What is critical activity?When we get the activites critical? and how can we remove/tackle it?Ans: I have several answers but got confused.As a planner asking this small question is really a silly, but i need to clear my confusion.so i wil...

Jun 28, 2011

Copy and Paste in Ver 8 - URGENT

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I  copied   8  rows from Excel  and tried to paste in one band  in P6 Version 8 Oracle based Server but it appeared  only one row in that band not all  8 rows.Moreover by right click, paste and fill down option  seems FROZEN or unlock. How to unlock ...

Jun 29, 2011

Multiplying Resource rate with some factor

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Hii am new to Primavera .My boss said to me that in our project our all resoureces rate has been increased to 1.5 of the original.I am not finding any clue in GLOBAL CHANGES how to apply this factor under which category.As we have thousands of resour...

Jun 29, 2011

planning to a resource line in your hostograms

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Hi, We have a bit of a debate going on, we work a 36.5 hour week and plan to the that limit at the moment... The debate is that we should lower the limit to 30 hours per week per individual to allow time for meetings, liaison, toilet breaks etc.... i...

Jun 29, 2011

How to calculate Actual Cost from price/unit2?

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The default formula for computing actual cost is (actual units)*(price/unit). Is there a way to change/tweak the formula of actual cost so that it should be (actual units)*(price/unit2)?In my project, the budgetary unit cost is different from the act...

Jun 29, 2011

how to copy same asctivities

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   guys i have 5 identical schools and i want to copy the activities and assign new WBs for each but i had no filter for no activities such as P3 which i copy and paste with the same time change the activity IDs, how to do this in P6.           thank...

Jun 29, 2011

Mouse driver that scrolls in P3 using Windows 7

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Years ago I found a mouse driver that allowed me to scroll in P3 using XP. I recently upgraded to Windows 7 and that mouse driver does not allow me to scroll anymore. Is there a mouse driver I can download that will again allow me to scroll in P3 usi...

Jun 29, 2011

Excel file to generate S curve.

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dear planners. i uploaded an Excel template for how to generate. Dynamic S curve.( planned and earned) Dynamic Summary Progress report. Dynamic Detailed Progress report. http://www.box.com/s/ryfxdtnnyhz7qpufgp5l for the planned value either you impor...

Jun 29, 2011

Deletion of Work

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Under NEC it is my understnading that the PM cannot delete work from the contract only to tender it to another contractor after your works are complete.   if this is correct where is the text to back this up?   Thanks   Tony

Jun 30, 2011

Summary Bars

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I rolled up all summary bars to level 3 and tried to move and adjust these summary bars but these summary bars dont move from their position. Why?How to move these summary bars to the required position?Please advise urgently.Thanks

Jun 30, 2011

Multiple Calendar

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Guys, Extra hands please! I have used 2 calendars, 10hrs(7am-6pm, 1hr break) and 8hrs(8am-5pm,1hr break) in my schedule. 10hrs calendar is assigned to construction activities while 8hrs calendar is for consultant/client related activities. When I lin...

Jun 30, 2011