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What are the main differences between a Forum and a Blog?

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Because Blogs and Forums are under separate tab and have a different layout there must be some reason and purpose for this.  Perhaps is how postings are moderated but I do not want to speculate, better if PP Admin tells me.No matter what the reason a...

Nov 5, 2018

Oil and Gas - Piping Tie In Schedule

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Hello Everyone,What are the Ativities to be considered in a Piping Tie In Schedule. I do know Hight LEvel Activities but would like to know more like breaking it into Level 5.The case is " The Oil and Gas Plant is live and we would be shutting down t...

Nov 6, 2018

Discussion Forum Rules

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Anyone can contribute to Discussion Forums.  You will need to join the site and / or a group in order to post a question to its Forum.Although the administrators and moderators of Planning Planet will attempt to keep all objectionable messages off th...

Nov 7, 2010

Export to excel problem

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HelloI prepare my schedule on primavera p6... it has 3 wbs levels. All activities in same wbs level has their own IDs (for example superstructural works' ID = SP1000, SP1010, SP1020 in p6 schedule, and finishing works' ID= FNS1000, FNS1010,FNS1020 .....

Nov 7, 2018

Step Wise Quide for all Delay Analysis Tchniques

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Hi,I'm looking for step wise guideline for all 4 types of delay analysis. 1 - As Planned vs As Built2 - Windows Delay Analysis3 - Retrospective time impact analysis4 - Collapsed As Built.Detailed articles or books suggestions are also welcome..TIA

Nov 7, 2018

Consumable Resources - Reports

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I have my programme fully resourced with "Consumable Resources" i.e Materials.  I would ideally like to be able to export a spreadsheet which shows me:The quantity I have of each Consumable Resource The % of the Consumable Resource which has been use...

Nov 7, 2018

Exporting P6 Project to Import on Laptop

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I exported a project from one computer so to import on another via an XER.  The project has quite a few EPS level Activity Codes and none of these are coming over with the import onto the Lap top.  Any reason why?  There are no options to elimnate EP...

Nov 7, 2018

Exporting P6 Project to Import on Laptop

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I exported a project from one computer so to import on another via an XER.  The project has quite a few EPS level Activity Codes and none of these are coming over with the import onto the Lap top.  Any reason why?  There are no options to elimnate EP...

Nov 7, 2018

Overall Project Duration Based on Individual Project Default Calendar

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Hi All,I have recently imported few p6 files . The issue is that for some project's overall duration is not changing based on the calendar setting, coming under the default  tab of the Project. But the overall duration is only changing based on the s...

Nov 7, 2018

Export fail P6 XER to XML

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G'day,I'm trying to export a simple Primavera P6 (XER) schedule to XML and keep getting Export Fail and the following msg:  Prism.Modularity.ModuleInitializeException: An exception occurred while initializing module 'CommandLineModule'.     - The exc...

Nov 8, 2018

Budgeted Units in Resource Assignment

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Dear all, On what basis the Budgeted Units are calculated in the Resource Assignment? I need it to be based on the manhour, but in my Xer file it is based on something else, please chech the attached screenshots shown in the second one that the budge...

Nov 8, 2018

Activity Name in ALL CAPS

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Some won't like it, but I tend to like all Activitiy Names or Desciptions in ALL UPPER CASE simply because it is easier to see.  Is there a way to change the case quickly to all upper case? or Vice Versa.  Just curious.... Jeff

Nov 8, 2018

Last Planner System

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I'm looking for some information on the Last Planner system? Any information or articles to read would be appreciated? So far all I've heard is that it involves a lot of post-its, so I'm looking for more information.Thanks

Nov 9, 2018

Primavera P6 EPPM 18.8 Publish Projects and Team Usage

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I want to display my project's resource allocations in team usage, but I keep getting the message:"One or more projects are not published. Publish projet to view data."Unfortunately, when I try to publish my project I find that the "Publish Projects"...

Nov 9, 2018

Primavera Training

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Hi everyone,I was hoping someone could assist me in finding a good primavera course.I am an advanced user of MS project, by an advanced user, I mean I know all about planning and scheduling best practices, I understand project controls concepts ie CP...

Nov 10, 2018

Help required selecting appropriate production management software.

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We run a small machine shop with a design department. We undertake job shop and small batch machining work. We also produce assemblies and machines. This means (especially when considering machine builds) there can be numerous sub-assemblies, sub-sub...

Nov 10, 2018

P6 R7 installation in Windows 10

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I am trying to install Primavera P6Rel7 on laptop with Windows10 Operating System.I have installed MySQL Express but data is not connected.Can anyone provide sequence of activities for connecting of database?Regards

Nov 12, 2018

Rule of Thumb/Best Practice Resource per m2

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Hi allFairly new to the PP site so apologies if i am posting in the wrong feed.I am looking to demonstrate to a client that the increase in scope requested without increasing the duration at the work face will cause all sorts of resourcing problems.P...

Nov 13, 2018

PSnext

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Hi I am currently having an issue with am installation of PSNext in my environment, we have an older version of PSnext that is running in the environment, however it worked well with older versions of Java installed on hte user's computers up until v...

Nov 14, 2018

Text formatting in iOS safari not respected.

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Not sure why, but for some reason, the text formatting is not working when adding comments from safari on an iPhone. In order to have carriage returns included in the saved post I am having to manually add the < br > tag to get a line break. This is ...

Nov 15, 2018