I created a WBS in P6 (8.3 VERSION) exported to a spread sheet as activities settings. then copied the list of activities from another excel file to this spread sheet and specify the WBS name and WBS code for each acvtivity.While importing it back to...
Out of sequence report is showing predecessor that is not showing as the pred in the Pred Tab? How is this possible?
Is there a technical name for delay caused by not being able to work as scheduled? for example if something is FS instead of SS? (for example thought could start steel same time as concrete but had to wait until done.) "Out of Sequence Delay" or "Lo...
Contractor claims baseline was never approved? wouldn't it be the defacto BL either way? Or would the first update? If this claim were true would it get them anything?
Do template Project folder and sub-folder systems exist? or Any software that places attachments in folders automatically? I have used e-builder and procore, but I do not think they put docs in folders automatically - they provide the folders - but...
Hello guys;I am a new user of P6 and I may be asking a lot of questions from now on and I hope noone gets bothered. I have a question regarding deleting an activity. I magin the program is almost ready and there are some links between activities, and...
There is a convention in our company that we don't extend the duration of an activity which is on critical path, to capture the activities which have caused the delay in the program in a better way. We have a WBS and under that WBS (which is named Ch...
Hi I have been told that when you are doing a monthly update, you shouldn't " schedule" ( F9, I mean) in the middle of update. and you should do all the actualizing and updating and after finishing that, you can " schedule" the project to the new dat...
Over the last couple of months there has been a discussion running in the Project Management World Journal around the purpose of EVM. The general consensus seems to be EVM is a performance management system, focused on measuring the performance of th...
Hi All, I have 2 baselines and i need to compare the Labour units for both with the current schedule. How can i get the labour units for both of these baselines?From below snapshot under "Units" both of the highlighted options are giving the same val...
Interpretation of Progress S-Curve without ScheduleCase-1 the actual overall actual progress value of reporting period is less than the overall early planned value but above the overall late planned value: the agreed baseline completion of Project...
Hi Everyone, Has anyone found a way to display individual resource assignments in Activity View Gantt chart? I have Group & Sort as by Resource, but activities that have multiple resources are grouped together as if they were a single resource. Is it...
It's possible to save a dashboard in order to transfer into the other project ?Reference book ?
has anyone ever seen a timeline for a business plan in scheduling software? it would make sense...I am looking for a template. Has logic, cash flow etc - would be a good idea. Or even one in excel?
Are there any good references on how to manage on master schedule where a few partner companies have thier own sections of the master WBS which they create, maintain and update. I see two possible options; I don't think updating by Excel would be pra...
I'm looking to update 17.12 to 21.12 but concerned about losing the license since I have no idea where it's stored - it's a bit opaque in comparison to the SSO software I'm used to. It's been years since I installed it as well so can't even remember ...
If you do not choose New for the Calendar on a project update import, could the other setting change the calendars and thus dates on previous updates and the baseline? when do you choose which settings for Calendars. But if I choose new everytime I...
Most posts by a wide margin - I took a look, Rafael Davila started posting 17 years ago and stopped 8 years ago. Kudos to Rafael - hopefully on a beach having an Old Fashioned or the Puerto Rican equivalent. I don't think he is on linkedin. Seems ...
Have exported with this ver., now it is saying "Export Requires MS Access DB Engine" and won't export?
when I import updated data I lose the WBS data, perhaps there should be no format when importing? Does certain wbs info have to be in the export - what am I doing wrong. Anytime I go a year without doing something I forget the associated "tricks".