Phone interview
Forum Topicif u have technical interview in phone as a Plannig Engineer , what kind of quis. may u faced ??
Dec 23, 2012
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Activity code gets reused, when last activities are deleted
Forum TopicHi,I was looking at comparison of different versions of schedule and found one issue, which I would consider a bug, unless I miss something.Every task in Spider has a code field, which Spider later used to uniquely identify task, when comparing diffe...
Dec 24, 2012
Steps from A to Z to Identify, Analyze, Apply and Submit a Claim in your Project
Forum TopicHi all, I'd like to know the steps that one should take in a construction project he is working on to win over claim, starting from identifying the possible claims he can win over, analyze them, apply them to your schedule and how to report them to t...
Dec 24, 2012
The possibility to rise a claim based on an approved schedule even though its a future event
Forum TopicGreetings to all, Is it possible to rise a claim against the clinet or his representative for actions, events or any thing related based on an approved submitted schedule ( Under the assumption that the representative missed to notice them), knowing ...
Dec 24, 2012
Possibility to rise claims due to long lead items that affect the progress of the project
Forum TopicIs it ok to rise claims for long lead items or equipments that their long time procurement caused a delay in the project ? Is the Client fault to specifiy such items that aren't available in the local market ? or the contractor's fault for not orderi...
Dec 24, 2012
Primavera P6 v7 - move from Stand Alone to Network - MS SQL Express or ORA XE
Forum TopicFolks, wishing you all season's greetings, happy holidays and a prosperous 2013 to come. My question is the following: - Moving from Stand Alone installs of P6 v7 to a Network DB, what are your recommendations to be cost effective or efficient? - Cou...
Dec 25, 2012
Manpower & Equipment Productivity - Roads & pipeline
Forum TopicHai all If anyone have manpower & equipment productivity list of Road & Pipeline works, Please mail to my id use private message service Regards Mani
Dec 25, 2012
Working with phases (summary tasks) n Spider
Forum TopicVladimir, Rafael,I am looking now at phases and I have the following few questions:Question 1I could not find any function similar to “Indent” or “Outdent”, available in MSP or Asta. I only found “Convert to Phase”. Hence the only way I found to Ind...
Dec 25, 2012
impact analysis using P6
Forum TopicDear all,My project is reaching 72.20% this week(data date 21-Dec-2012). and our contract project Mechanical Completion date is 30-Apr-2013. now, we are ahead of schedule(bl Cum 65.53%). however, there are some problems:for many Procurement items, Pr...
Dec 26, 2012
Working with Scripts
Forum TopicHello,First of all I have to say I have little experience working with Spider Project. I have been trying to create scripts in order to perform complex tasks faster when I hit a dead end trying to create a script for risk analysis. The script looks l...
Dec 27, 2012
Global Code Change over Multiple Projects
Forum TopicI have 142 projects in my T&D Program! I need to import a global code change to identify seperate engineering packages. Currently all my P&C packages have one code. I have an excell to import that has an "alpha" character to split my P&C into 3 catag...
Dec 27, 2012
VICO CONTROL 2009 - HOW TO INSERT COSTS IN ACTIVITIES?
Forum TopicHi all, Somebody would know how to insert costs in activities in Vico Control 2009? Best Regards,Be BbbesBJosé Otávio.
Dec 28, 2012
PS8 vs PSNext vs Sciforma
Forum TopicHello all,I have been using Project Scheduler (aka Project Scheduler Network in France because PS here is the acronym for "Parti Socialiste") since 1991.My opinion is that Project Scheduler always was far ahead of Microsoft Project; when the editor S...
Dec 28, 2012
Australia and Primavera
Forum TopicHi All,I am new to this forum and am in need of advice specially if we have Australians here.I have been in Australia in for quite some time now. Before that I have around 1 year of experience working as a junior scheduler in India. I am looking to b...
Dec 29, 2012
Test report on comparison of resource leveling engine of Microsoft Project, Primavera, Asta Powerproject, and Spider Project.
Forum TopicDear all,I have been using MS Project for a while and now have allocated some time to look at other programs. As a part of this investigation I compared resource leveling algorithms of them (I am one of those, who believe, that resource leveling is v...
Dec 30, 2012
how to develop the construction progress
Forum TopicDear All,Could you please guide me sequence of construction progress calculation in EPC contractor and what is the factor we need to consider while calculating the construction progress.Please reply me [email protected]
Dec 30, 2012
An initiative to conduct resource leveling engine comparison of different tools
Forum TopicDear all,In the parallel thread I published results of resource a leveling engine comparison, which I did on Microsoft Project, Primavera, Asta Powerproject, and Spider Project. However some people pointed out that my test results may be a bit “color...
Dec 30, 2012
Loading of Cost in P6 by Importing Excel File
Forum TopicDear Frnds,i am trying to loading cost for the activities in P6 program by importing cost loaded in excel file but it is not getting loaded.Could some1 please help me by listing out the sequence of operations required or what would be problem in load...
Dec 31, 2012
Showing Total Programme Days in P6
Forum TopicDear Primavera users,Can Anyone advise me on how to show weekly totals (durations) in P6?This was possible in P3 - but am struggling in P6I need a number for total programme days per week - displayed at the bottom of the screen.Hope someone can help ...
Dec 31, 2012
Happy New Year Planners
Forum TopicWishing all Planners over the globe happy and prosperous new year. Heartily thanks to each and every one for helping in each stage of planning career.Have a happy and great year ahead.Kind Regards,Rajesh.
Jan 1, 2013