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Planned Monthly and Weekly Progress

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Greetings! Hi Planners, I extracted the Planned monthly and Weekly progress in P6, but the percentages does not match at every end of the month. Weekly percentage is beat higher compared to monthly. All settings have been applied accordingly,  e.g. u...

Sep 28, 2013

Overriding Duration field

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This problem is basic so I can't help but think I'm missing something really obvious.When I open a new Powerproject docuement, after I enter a start date for each task, the duration sets itself at a default of 1 week and then populates the finish dat...

Sep 30, 2013

Construction of villas

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Dear All,Currently I am working on a villa project of 483 villas, area around 500 sq.m each , I have to finish the project  in 24 months , I want to create a cost reducing planning schedule inorderto complete the project within time, your feedbacks f...

Sep 30, 2013

How to Check contractors schedule

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Hello Everyone,I am planner scheduler and I want to know how we will be checking contractors schedule? What will be next course of action after checking it? 

Sep 30, 2013

SCHEDULE % NOT MATCHING WITH PERFORMANCE %

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Dear All, Please Help about, on my running schedule, i make revision (extend dates) and copy same schedule as Baseline, But Schedule % not matching with Performance %, even same schedule attched as Baseline.

Oct 1, 2013

Generate S-curve in P6 R8.2

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Dear colleagues,Just want to know, in P6 R8.2, how to generate s-curves for the following:     1. Cost (Plan vs. Actual)     2. Earned Value     3. Schedule Variance     4. Resource LoadingRegards,Leonard

Oct 1, 2013

Duration error - I entered days & it took it as hours.

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I am new to P6 using P6v7.I entered activities & their durations the normal way & added resources to the activities. It is showing like this: -Original Duration Column as 20d [ fine as I entered 20 ]Budgeted Units as 20h in Bottom Layout - Resources ...

Oct 1, 2013

Delay Analysis

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I am trying to calculate delay to a project - there is nothing contractually written that states anything to do with extensions of time within the contract, however, the client and contractor both agreed to re-baseline the schedule when delay started...

Oct 1, 2013

Cumulative Schedule %

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Dear All,Can any one help me. I dont want schedule % complete for some WBS i dont want them to be added in the cumulative %?Any help will be appreciatedThanks

Nov 8, 2013

User defined fields?

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Hi all I have a spreadsheet, with milestone dates on that the boss wants putting into Powerproject.  Theres several headings such as "name", "Value", Status" as well as the dates. Im trying to make my own user defined fields for the headings.  I have...

Nov 8, 2013

Problems change effect

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Dear All, I have imported a schedule from P3 to P6, all seem to be working fine untill I tried to update actuals. the schedule early finish and early end dates seem the same. no effect on succesor activies . how can i over come this problem 

Nov 8, 2013

Resources leveling tool

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Dear all,Does anyone know a tool for leveling schedules that is more efficient than P6 ?Thanks

Nov 8, 2013

Not able to delete or copy a project in P-6-Rel 8.2

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 Dear All, I am having a strange problem, which I never face while using Rel-6.0,6.2,7.0, and that is while deleting/or copying  a program, It states a error code-TINAT-2680-D, or mentioning there is not enough space in database. Please any one advis...

Nov 10, 2013

Diagrams and table reports

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Dear all,I am playing with diagrams and table reports now and have a couple of questions. Just checking, that that I understand the things correctly and not missing something:Both diagrams and table reports are possible to save as a template for futu...

Nov 10, 2013

Multiple WBS

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I have to develop a schedule in P6 8.3 that integrates separate schedules from different Subcontractors.  Since some of the financial information from the Subcontractors’ schedules is confidential, I intend to create separate schedules under a single...

Nov 11, 2013

Display total float on Project level

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Dear Primavera Experts, My question is, How can I display the total float on the Project summary level?The project completion milestone delayed 68 days (TF=-68), But on the project level it shown (TF=0), how can I display on this level the same TF wh...

Nov 11, 2013