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MPX to MPP

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I am having trouple converting a file from MPX to MPP. Could someone help me out with a converter or something.  Under pressure. 

Feb 23, 2018

Cost Centre Help

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Hi there, new user in need of a bit of help.  I have set up a few Cost Centres which I would like to allocate to tasks.  Asta seems to set these Cost Centres up with a value of £0.62 as standard.  This means when I enter 100 into the allocation part ...

Feb 26, 2018

Asta Natural Order Hierarchy & WBS

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I have a schedule file for Asta that needs to be imported into P6.The problem that I am having is that the schedule was created using the "Natural Order Hierarchy" instead of WBS.Is there a function that copies the "Natural Order Hierarchy" into a WB...

Feb 28, 2018

Schedule Narrative

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Dear All, I received these comments regarding program narrative from client."The Narrative shall define the strategy of how the Supplier will execute/implement the project including but not limited to; logic used in programme, calendar to be used, in...

Feb 28, 2018

% complete Type for Milestones in P6

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Good EveningI use P6V8. The schedule I inherited has activties using "physical % complete" as most common way to status progress. So are milestones.  As "activity percent complete based on activity steps" is checked at the project level, whenever I c...

Mar 1, 2018

Budgeted cost extends beyond the project finish date.

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Hi everybody         I have a problem with one of my program (Updated Program), I want to use it as a revised baseline.  The issue is project finish date is 24-Jan-2019, but when i check the activity usage spreadsheet, Cost loaded in the Preliminarie...

Mar 1, 2018

Interactive Planning Session Question

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A few times a month, I facilitate interactive planning sessions between owners and subcontracted engineers and constructors. Normally ill print out a big paper timeline, hadwrite activity descriptions on post it notes and positon them on the timeline...

Mar 1, 2018

Error to create visual report to Microsoft Excel

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Hi ,I am trying to create an visual report using excel 2015 but the error message below pop up"This operation requires that you have Excel 2003 or later installed on your computer"does anyone encounter the same issue as well? May i know how to solve ...

Mar 5, 2018

How to speed up a project

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Dear All,I am working in MS Project 2016 with some plannings, mainly product development project plannings with a lot of engineering tasks which I have all scheduled from a starting date onwards and then resulting in an end date.Now the question I ne...

Mar 6, 2018

Prefab Pod Schedule

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HelloI have recently transited into planning from architecture and i am working on a multi story residential project. I have been asked to do a "Pod Schedule" for the flats as we are using prefab pod bathrooms. What is a pod schedule? does anyone kno...

Mar 6, 2018

How can you filter items that are not assigned to Hammocks

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Hi all,Can anyone help, I have assigned activitities to Hammock bars  based on work package list I have created and assigned a cost to the Hammock bars to produce a cash flow. I am however unsure if I have allocated each activity to a Hammock bar. I ...

Mar 8, 2018

Is it possible to export with unique and persistent task ID's

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Hi! This is my first post.I'm looking for any ID in the resulting exported (XER or XML or whatever) file.An ID that uniquely identifies a task and that is "persistent".I mean: in my tests I exported twice the same project.The first time, the task "Co...

Mar 12, 2018

The Importance of Management Roles in Business Transformation

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Hi guys, Just wanted to share this blog that many organizations struggle to increase success rates with change programs as they attempt to transform overall business success while improving performance and consider how management is important in tran...

Mar 13, 2018

E & I schedule

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Dear Members,  Kindly can anyone help me out in making a schedule for E & I project schedule which includes installation, commissioning and startup of control system in oil and gas field. Im new to this work and would like to have some help you guys....

Mar 19, 2018

Start dates in Gantt chart with baseline not on correct position

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Dear all,I have been searching for the answer to this question for couple days and did not find anything (it is driving me crazy!).When I insert both actual work/remaining work bars and baseline bars in Gantt chart, Start dates from actual work/remai...

Mar 21, 2018

Display link slope or the difference of two dates

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Hi, I'm fairly new to planning softwares but I get the basics of powerproject. My problem is that I can't display a column which shows link slope. Is it even posisible? There is a link loop but I ignored the link between these two tasks and now it do...

Mar 22, 2018

Duration % Complete not Rolling Up

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Hi Everyone, Can anyone suggest a reason why duration % complete isn't rolling up to summary level?My % complete type is the same for all activities, but I'm unsure what else to checkThanksEmma

Mar 22, 2018

DCMA 14 Point Schedule Metrics

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Hi,Wondering if anyone knows if  you can pull the DCMA 14 point assesmment info from a programme in Asta easily or at least elements of it.Any help would be appreciated.ThanksChris

Mar 23, 2018