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Remaining and Actual Units calculation issue

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Hello Planners!I need advice to understanding Remaining / Actual / At Complete Units calculation. There is 40hrs long activity to which a labor resource is assigned with 40h budgeted units. Calendar is 5d x 8hr. When activity started and DD moved 1 d...

Apr 24, 2019

How to indicate Physical percent completed in Group bar

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Hi everyone,In my turnaround project, I chose the percent completed type is physical percent completed, but the problem I faced was that percent can not show at WBS or total bar as well. Can you advise me how slove this problem?Thanks alot.Viet Tran.

Apr 25, 2019

Outsourcing (Oracle) Primavera P6 programming

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Hi guys, if your Contract Specifications require Oracle (Primavera) P6 programming, please consider CPM Specialist. Please check the website:www.cpmspecialist.co.uk

Apr 25, 2019

Copying and pasting on P6

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How do I copy activities from P6 project plan to another P6 project plan, how do I copy and paste

Apr 26, 2019

Columns for import to P6

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Hello everyone,I have a question; Is it possible to import columns with (*) to P6? I mean columns such as "Physical % Complete" or "Budgeted labor unit".Thanks in advance

Apr 29, 2019

Primavera P6 Professional v18.8 Importing XML files failing

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Hello,I recently upgraded to Oracle Primavera Professional version 18.8 and now I am unable to import P6 XML files or Microsoft Project XML files. This happens for both a MSSQL database and SQLite database.Also, I went to the Oracle website https://e...

Apr 29, 2019

P6 v 8.2 not installing

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Using the agents laptop with v 8.2 for several months now and today it would not start.The error message says Primavera P6 Professional R8.2 has stopped working.A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will close the program an...

Apr 29, 2019

Looping backwards through a 'For Each' collection

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 Here is the usual VBA code for looping through all tasks in a project:  For Each t In ActiveProject.Task      {code for desired action}  Next tThis loops through from the top down (as far as I can tell).Anyone have an ideas as to how I can reverse t...

May 2, 2019

Work Completed or progressed in the last reporting period

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Is there a method to capture and report the work that had been progressed or completed in the last reporting period.   Using a filter i created finish date is in the range of DD-7days to DD which will show all work completed.   But some of the tasks ...

May 6, 2019

Pain points of project management

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Hi,I just started my job as a junior project manager but, I have a question to you - more experienced PMs. What are your main Pain Points in your daily work and how do you handle them?Thank you for your answers!

May 9, 2019

How to deal with Hangers/Out of Sequences/Activity changes?

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Hi ... How to deal with "Out of sequences / Hangers" while tracking the project? I know how to find, but i just want to know how to fix it without changing the baseline end date?Please note, ours a simple duration tracking project, without any resour...

May 9, 2019

Primavera 15.1 - Udf query

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Hello Folks ,Just need to ask about UDF removal / hide- We are having lots of UDFs which are not using from long time but  consuming lots of data. Is there any way we can filter out which udf is not in use so that we can remove the UDF. Also need to ...

May 13, 2019

Primavera 15.1 - Udf query

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Hello Folks ,Just need to ask about UDF removal / hide- We are having lots of UDFs which are not using from long time but  consuming lots of data. Is there any way we can filter out which udf is not in use so that we can remove the UDF. Also need to ...

May 13, 2019

Configuring the database

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A couple of weeks ago I couldn't open my 8.2 stand alone P6 on the laptop loaned to me by the consultancy that I am contracting through. Didn't get any help and got the problem fixed by taking the laptop to a local repairer who deleted quite a few vi...

May 13, 2019

Historical information

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Is there any way in primavera that I can recall that information?I took over from a previous plan and now they want to improve in the past. for example, they want early start costs and late start costs for a specific day in the past.

May 13, 2019

Float not reflecting progress updates accurately.

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I've recently been charged with revising and maintaining a relatively substantial schedule (700+ tasks) for a client of the company I work for. This is the first time I've delved into scheduling, and it's definitiely trial by fire here, so please bar...

May 13, 2019