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Producing Reports from P6

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  Good Morning All I am using P6 v16.2 I cannot get a report out of it formatted as I want it to be, it is a simple report showing planned units for labour and materials, when I export to excelas an xls file the data on each line is one long line of ...

Nov 21, 2019

Changing Dates Cashflow/Income calculated from

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Hi all I have generated a cashflow forecast in Powerproject which by the default periods are calendar months. I want to change this so that the calculation is based on specific dates - i.e valuation dates, which in this case are on the 18th of the mo...

Nov 23, 2019

Project Category in Menu greyed out

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In Primavera 16 this item is greyed out.  In Primavera 18 I don't think it is.  I believe it to be a an Admin. issue but there is no "user section" on either due to the SQLite database.  How can I get it to appear so I can assign a baseline? (there i...

Nov 25, 2019

P6 - resource is not showing activities that are completed

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Hello All,  I suspect the resource is not showing on the activities that are completed because it is a bit light after the progress line. Please see image below. The design activities are blue resources but i cannot see anything blue on the histogram...

Nov 26, 2019

End-of-window (retrospective) validation in TIA with a SRP

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Hi guys,I'm working on a project where the contractor issued a schedule recovery plan (SRP) at the end of a certain window. The contractor had impacted Owner's event into the network to determine their EOT entitlement.My question is: how do we retros...

Nov 27, 2019

Skills - Partial Workload

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Vladimir,I need a little help understandin partial workload and skills.As far as I know (and tried) you cannot assign partial workload at the skill level, only at the resource level in the skill. when doing so Spider doesn't apply the partial workloa...

Nov 27, 2019

P6 Project Baseline Issue

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I have recently started a new role, and there are several issues with systems that i am trying to get to the bottom of....one of them is the Project Baseline functionality within P6.When a baseline is taken and assigned as the project baseline, the p...

Nov 28, 2019

Urgent: Apply Fixed Price Cost to Activity

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Hello All,  I want to apply a Fixed Price Cost to my activities. For exampleFoundation Original Duration = 10 days Fixed Price Cost for this activity = $10000 QUESTION: 1) How do apply the fixed price cost to this activity? 2) When i progress the act...

Dec 2, 2019

Resource Assignment

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Hi All,  Can i know why i can see the resource on each day?  For example, i have 4000 unit assign to activity A1010 but i only can see 800. I have 5 days on that activity so it should be 800, 800, 800, 800, 800  ThanksMike   [[wysiwyg_imageupload:716...

Dec 2, 2019

Resource Assignment on Activity Completed or in Progress

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Hello,  I am applying resources to the activities in progress or completed but the actual is not showing on the activities that have been completed or in progress Screen 1 - This is before the resource is applied [[wysiwyg_imageupload:7168:]] Screen ...

Dec 2, 2019

Different Durations of WBS and the Project

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[[wysiwyg_imageupload:7174:]]Hi. How can a duration of a WBS can be 50 days however upper level WBS and the project lasts 36 days at the same time?

Dec 3, 2019

Visualizer R16.1 (X64) not working after upgrade to Windows 10

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 My company pushed a Windows 10 update. My P6 works fine but Visualizer will not launch. It is a standalone database on my computer. I ran a trouble shooter and it comes up incompatable. There are no error messages it just doesn't launch. I tried run...

Dec 4, 2019

Work speed of EPPM P6 Web services

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Hi All.I'm working in P6 EPPM Web services in browzer. HOW can I increase the speed and response of P6 in the browser?

Dec 5, 2019

Cost

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Why ,at completion cost is different from budgeted total cost . The cost is increased at completion cost from budgeted cost

Dec 6, 2019

Testing and Commissioning Labour

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Hello,  i just produced a labour histogram for the testing and commissioning labour histograme, basically, i apply 1 manday to each testing and commissiioning activities. The natural of the project is refurbishment, fit-out, plantrooms and testing an...

Dec 8, 2019

1 Project - 2 Contractor - Import of Data

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Hello Everyone, May be this topic has been dicussed here but couldnt find it.The situation is I am the Client Planning Engineer for a "Building Project". I have 2 Subcontractors Civil Contractor and MEP Contractor and they have prepared the baseline ...

Dec 10, 2019

Assignment of productivity to activity type

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Dear all,I am just looking for functionality in Spider which i think must be there, but I can't find it.What I am looking for is that there must be a way not to assign productivity of every resource to every activity. Especially not when you assign s...

Dec 10, 2019