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Anyone Going to COLLABORATE14?

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Who's going to COLLABORATE14 in Las Vegas this April? It's a huge event, particularly for us Primavera P6 users. More details here http://ow.ly/u3FDo

Feb 27, 2014

Control E Fill Down Functionality Removed in R8.3

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I apologize if this has been asked/ansewred a million times already but not having much luck with the seartch functions of the forum. I recently  purchased and installed P6 R8.3.0 (build 6424) and I still have fill down capability, but only by right ...

Feb 27, 2014

Shift resources

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Hi All, I'm involve in Turnaround scheduling and I've got this problem with operations resources. In ops, we have day shift (6pax) and night shift (2pax) resources and we need to work around this constraint and level the resources. My problem is when...

Feb 28, 2014

Network logic Plots

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I am after good quality network logic plots from a P6 schedule I have. The default P6 layout with logic lines overlying each other is not very conducive to following the logic on A0 sized sheets, especially for non Planners. I seem to remember some t...

Feb 28, 2014

Do not resource level flag / Must Start On constraint.

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Dear all,I still sort of feel that for my applications it would be difficult to work  with Spider without a feature  to make certain tasks so high priority, that resource leveling cannot move them at all. So, something like “do not resource level” fl...

Feb 28, 2014

Best Interview Questions

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HiWhat would be very great interview questions to ask to a project cost controller EXPERT/Guru to test his real knowledge.The goal is to test following areas:Project Planning & SchedulingCost ControlsCost Estimation & Bidding Expertise for projects I...

Feb 28, 2014

where to find labour or machine constant values online

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Hi all, can anyone please advise where to find labour or machine constant values online?it there any free sources such as Rawlinsons construction handbook online.If not, how can you get the labour or machine constant values to estimate the activity d...

Mar 1, 2014

P6 8.3.2 Top Down Estimation

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Just upgraded to P6 8.3.2 and noticed a feature under Tools called 'Top Down Estimation'.  Never used it before.  How does it work?  Is it worth learning.  Apparently it has been around since P3C, but disappeared after 8.1.  Just curious.

Mar 2, 2014

High Rise Building Construction Schedule

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Dear Friends,Can anybody help me by forwarding "High Rise Building Construction Schedule". If possible resource loaded otherwise without will also help.My email id: [email protected] will be a great help...Thanks in advance!Regards,Prakash 

Mar 3, 2014

Late Start and Late Finish earlier than Early Start and Early Finish

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Dear all, In a schedule that I used the same calendar for all the activities I experienced the fact that for some activities on critical path the late dates were earlier than the early dates. e.g. ES:1-MAR-2014 LS:28-FEB-2014 late start one day befor...

Mar 3, 2014

Assigning From A Sub-Selection Of P6 Resources

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It can be a real pain when trying to assign Resources to the Activities in your Primavera P6 Project when you are going to use just a handful of the large number of P6 resources that are available. Here's an article on how to assign from a sub-select...

Mar 3, 2014

Gantt chart separation of activities

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My project has several locations of work performed and I have them grouped by activity codes A,B,C... This does not appear to be enough separation for my customer.  Is there a way to insert a horizontal line to separate these activity groups?

Mar 3, 2014

Free Gantt Viewer and DCMA 14 for Primavera

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Hello Plannersi have written  an excel macro that perform the metrics for DCMA 14 ( ok only the first 10 tests), and draw a gantt Chart in Excelyou can download it in https://code.google.com/p/xer-reader/a short tutorial is available herehttps://www....

Mar 4, 2014

Primavera Update from xer file

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How could i update a primvera file from another xer file if 1- the 2 file have different wbs location (which mean than in the first xer file one level of the wbs is under wbs while in the other xer it is existing but under anther wbs )2- we donot nee...

Mar 4, 2014

Total Float

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Dear All,  I have received a shcedule from Contractor for review with activties having very high float like 260 days, 120 etc........same like free flaot is very high. Its 16 months project . Is there any standard practice limit  for activities could...

Mar 5, 2014

Relationship Logic Type

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This question may have been posted before? Does anyone know of a way to identify Relationship LOGIC TYPE (as distinct from ordinary Relationship Type; FS,SS....) I have identified 3 logic types (there may be more); Physical Logic - i.e. can not physi...

Mar 6, 2014

Design and Built

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Hello Guyz! I am new here and i found this website interesting, Below are my questions and i hope anyone could hellp me out. 1) What does the term " Design and Built Project " means? I was asked in an interview, and i don't actually know the meaning ...

Mar 6, 2014

Design and Built

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Hello Guyz! I am new here and i found this website interesting, Below are my questions and i hope anyone could hellp me out. 1) What does the term " Design and Built Project " means? I was asked in an interview, and i don't actually know the meaning ...

Mar 6, 2014