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How to create different Critical Path

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hi everybody,  I would like to do 2 critical path in the same schedule, for 2 different unit in the same plant , how is possible to apply on P6 ? thanks in advanceAndrea  

Mar 7, 2019

Daily reports

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I have a question about the production of the daily reports, who has the responsability to produce this document and who is responsable of the distribution during the realization of the project.

Mar 7, 2019

Interview presentation - help please

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Hi I have been shortlisted to attend an interview for a project manager position next week. Part of the recruitment process includes a presentation on the following - "If I asked you to invent a new language,how would you go about it?" I have a few i...

Mar 8, 2019

Project duration not reflecting overall original duration

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In the screen shot below, i have applied 7 days work week for project duration activity, start miletone and finish milestone , for all other its 6 days work week calender. On the overall summary level original duration is '959 days' , even though act...

Mar 9, 2019

Primavera P6 - Physical completion % question - I am a beginner

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  This is a simple schedule that I have made and I am required to update this schedule every month which is 22 Jan 19.Please refer to my figure 1 for a simple of this schedule[[wysiwyg_imageupload:6606:]]Now i press the F9 function - scheduling after...

Mar 11, 2019

Project changes tasks start time

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Hello!I'm trying to create project by importing data from xml-file. Almost everything is working fine, I get required resources and tasks? but when I click on task information - ok , all my tasks start dates are changed.I guess, the question is not p...

Mar 11, 2019

Problem on EPPM: Application Blocked by Java

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Hello Colleagues,I'm using P6 R8.2 Client-Server Based Version. I got a problem when I tried to use EPPM web based as shown in the picture below. This never happen before I updated version of internet browser and Java Application which I can't rememb...

Mar 12, 2019

Lag and Original Duration

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I need to have an excel spreadsheet that lists all activities original duraion as well as lags.I've tried numerous was of P6 exporting to excel, filtering/formatting within P6 to copy and paste in excel, but am unable to find a way to get both the or...

Mar 12, 2019

Lag and Original Duration

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I need to have an excel spreadsheet that lists all activities original duraion as well as lags.I've tried numerous was of P6 exporting to excel, filtering/formatting within P6 to copy and paste in excel, but am unable to find a way to get both the or...

Mar 12, 2019

Report - Manhours Planned Vs Actual

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Hello Everyone, I have made a resource loaded schedule. I am looking for report which can Show me Planned Manhours (As per Basline) and Earner Manhours (After Updating the Schedule) and Remianing Manhours (After Updating the Schedule) in Time Distrib...

Mar 13, 2019

WBS not in correct hierarchy order after MSP import

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Hi all,I am currently collecting vendor plans which are mostly in MSP. I have have saved them as a XML and imported them into P6. However, for some reason the WBS heirarchy is being reordered in P6 which is effecting the activities view.For example i...

Mar 13, 2019

Document company processes in a form of Project Schedule

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Dear all, I just would like to check one idea with you. I am looking for a good way to document internal company processes. The traditional way to do such thing - create some flow chart with additional description. My experience though is that it doe...

Mar 13, 2019

Spam and PP

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spam - irrelevant or inappropriate messages sent on the Internet to a large number of recipients.Recently the amount of spam at PP has increased.  I believe the main reason is because PP is allowing anyone to register.  The amount of spam should decr...

Mar 14, 2019

Remaining Units not calculating - why?

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Hi,I'm back using P6 after a few years off and have been tasked with creating a resource histogram that shows the remaining hours.Each time I run the report it is showing me the remaining actual units and not the remaining to earn.eg.Budget = 240, % ...

Mar 15, 2019

Managing big projects with P6 EPPM (web-based)

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Dear all, I just wanted to check whether somebody has practical and real experience of managing large projects (hundreds of tasks) with P6 EPPM (web-based). It is clear, that desktop version allows managing big project, but web-based??? Having workin...

Mar 16, 2019

Manhours Calculation

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I am relativly new to project planning and I am currently wotking on man-hours calculation for an Engineering-Procurment-Construction project. I can calculate the man hours for the construction activities but how do I calculate the manhours for Procu...

Mar 16, 2019

MS Project Code Libraries

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Hi All,  I have a progrmme in Asta that I have assigned a number of activities in my code library to. A colleague prefers to use MS Project because he doesn't have a license for Asta. I have saved this programme as a MS Project file but none of the c...

Mar 20, 2019

Planned Value & Resource Curve

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As per the following below Resource Curve and for an activity of  20 Days Original Duration the Planned Value will be exactly located on last day of the activity. But for any activity with Original Duration more than 20 Days, the Planned Value will n...

Mar 21, 2019

Global change not working for baseline programme

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I am aware of the need to change the planned start and planned finish of a baseline programme before attaching it to the programme that I am usuing to demonstrate a delay.However in certain instances the planned dates are not being changed. ie an act...

Mar 21, 2019