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Tilos - Italian User Meeting 2013

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 The June 20th, 2013 at the Starhotels Metropole in Rome, will be scheduled TILOS Italian User Meeting, 2013, where we will present the new version of the most widely used tool for planning for Linear Projects: TILOS 8. Do not miss this opportunity a...

May 27, 2013

Total Float question

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Afternoon everyone, I work in Project Controls for a GC in Baton Rouge, La, and I had a question for you all. P6 is a program we use among some of our other duties and I was curious as I am still getting more and more familiar with the program. What ...

May 27, 2013

Project Variance Log Document

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Dear All,Please support me with a sample of Project Variance Log Document.Thank you very much.

May 28, 2013

Negative float in baseline schedule

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Dear Planners, Can a project have negative total float in baseline schedule? If not, why? I came across Ron Winter's article on baseline http://www.ronwinterconsulting.com/rabaseline.htm, and according him there should not be negative total float in ...

May 28, 2013

Updating the schedule (Actual Date > Data Date)

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Hi,I would like to ask the experienced guys in P6 if you "actualize" your dates for those activities that have already started (or completed) and whose start or finish dates are after the data date.For example, let's say your data date is April 30, 2...

May 28, 2013

Primavera P6 Industry Settings

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The naming conventions for various fields and wording for certain prompts in Oracle Primavera P6 are controlled by the industry settings chosen during the setup of the software. To learn about the Primavera P6 Industry Settings http://ow.ly/lsurp

May 28, 2013

Risktab not available in activity Details?

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Dear All,Firstly i like to thank our Founder Williams for his awesome idea website-Planning planet,Iam a Starter here but reached soon as a planning engineer in field of Proj mgmt.Question:  I dont find the Risk tab available in the activity details ...

May 28, 2013

Change the Activity ID of Various Series of Activities in P6.2

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Hi Fellow Planners,I am using P6.2.I have a lot of series of Activities strating with CS-A-PS-C-, CB-A-PS-C-, and so on with the activity number ending in 4 numeric digits 1000, 1010 and so on. CB-A-PS-C-,   CB-A-PS-C-,  CB-A-PS-C-,  CB-A-PS-C-,  CS-...

May 28, 2013

Tabular Reports

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For some reason my Tabular Reports/Graphic Reports is no longer functioning. When I select the report (any report) and select the Run button, it brings up the next screen and no matter what I select (View on screen, Print immediately, or Save to the ...

May 29, 2013

Exporting Budgeted Units Not Match

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Hi ,I have  an existing & repaired schedule with budgeted units(Labor & Non Labor). When i exported the report in time interval, only shown was the labor Units.hope somebody can help me.Thank You!

May 30, 2013

Ground Rules for Gadgets in Meetings?

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With so many choices of technology that we take to meetings, some of which is essential for the meeting, how do you control gadget use beyond silencing your phones? What ground rules do you have for gadget use in meetings? http://ow.ly/lxEfz

May 30, 2013

User import permissions

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I am trying to allow a user within Primavera to be able to import schedules.  I have his global permissions set to allow "import project managment xer, mpp, mpx and p3" and I have his project permissions set to be able to "create project within EPS"....

May 31, 2013

Having an issue altering the finish date for an activity

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I have an activity in which I know the exact date it will finish, however I am having trouble adjusting the finish date in my schedule.All predecessing activities have been completed, so it's not being pushed back because of that.Additionally, I have...

Jun 1, 2013

Primavera Risk Analysis - Guide Book

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Afternoon all,   I have recently been on a PRA course and was given a short manual from the training provider. Does anybody know of any published books that can help with using PRA? Regards Chris

Jun 3, 2013

Original Duration

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Hi!I have a programme that is going to last longer than originally planned, but it confuses me that when I updated it, the summary value of Original Duration column appeared to be the same as summary value of At Completion Duration column. OD of sing...

Jun 3, 2013

Actual Labour Units

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Hi, The actual units of few activities found changing to(equal to  the duration %) for the activity’s percentage complete type was Physical percentage complete.   Problem was fixed by removing the option recalculate actual units and costs when durati...

Jun 4, 2013

Identifying Cost and Schedule Risk Drivers with Acumen Risk

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The Risk Drivers report from Acumen Risk provides a unique insight into true cost and schedule risk drivers in an easy to understand tornado chart.  Using a metric called Schedule Contribution Factor, Acumen Risk reports activities or risk events wit...

Jun 4, 2013

P6 Calender Settings

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I face a problem as follows: I am demonstrating the problem through a sample network of 2 activities linked finish to start and both of original duration of 6d The Project and Activity Calender is following a 6 days Work Week, 8 hours Work per day 08...

Jun 5, 2013