In my schedule after updating previou sactivites with delays,, the original duration of some of successor actitvites changes to zero.Why it happens so and what is solution.
Dear All, I am preparing commissioning schedule for 4000 MW combined cycle schedule. It has a configuration of 2GTX2HRSGX1ST total 6 groups. I am in the dialema that which software will be helpful to me in the log run if i want to monitor it on weekl...
Dear All, Whenever i assign last project updates for current month baseline all the actuals till last months updates gives wrong dates. It creats lots of confusion whenever i wanted to compare the current status with the last months status. Please he...
Mr Vladimir,I've worked for a drilling rig fabricator. My company has along time used P6 for planning manner so far. Next week, I want to convince my boss to replace with Spider Project. Can you please give me some material, key points. Thanks,Tuan
In which folder are the projects (samples or working files) stored? For example, in P3 my understanding is that these project files were stored under the Projects folder within the P3Win directory. In P6, where are the project files stored?
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Greetings all. I’m a new user of P6 rev7 and am having a challenge which I hope someone will help me with please. I would like to create a report to see resources man-hours, for a specific time period, of only the projects I have open. But, for some ...
I havent been on PP for a while, so I was shocked to see only 10 jobs posted, what has happened to PP? you use to be buzing with work. Please dont come with the quiet market excuse as other sites have several vacancies per day, are you steering away ...
I am assigning several resources to the same activity with budgeted quantities, progress % and remaining hours to complete.I then need to view each of these resource assignments using the "resource usage profile" view so I can see the bars showing th...
Is there a Primavera setting that will keep deleted Activity IDs from being automatically generated in Primavera 6 Rev 8.2? We normally utilize the "auto-numbering" capabilities within Primavera, but have noticed that deleted Activity IDs are being r...
I am trying ti establish a filter for hiding the activities in a schedule that are 100%.That is easy.My schedule is broken down by 4 areas.As part of that filter, I still need to show all activities (including the ones that are 100% complete) in 1 of...
Hi,I was playing with priorities and found the following effect, which I can’t logically explain.Just wondering whether it “works as designed” and id "yes", then what is the reason for it?Effect descriptionRule 1. Any activity, which has in it’s succ...
Hi,I have encountered people (planners & non planners) with 2 schools of thoughts when it comes to updating programme. 1) First Type (Static type) " The baseline programme logic and relationship is fixed, you can't change when updating."" Update the ...
I'm not sure if this is possible (I've not come across it in other software) but I live in hope so I thought I'd ask people who are more knowledgable than I am with Asta....What I would like to know is whether the following scenario is possible in Po...
Dear Mike/All , How to make duration in round figure? I have duration column in days. In which few duration are showing as 1d 30min and 2d 2h. I need to change these durations in round figure as 1d and 2d in the whole column. How to do that? A...
What should I do if I want to set many calendars with different start time and finish time for each day and also different working days e.g. Calendar A start from Monday to Saturday from 8:00a.m. to 18:00 , Calendar B start from Monday to Friday fro...
Rafael, Vladimir,I am still experimenting with priorities and if I don’t take into account the unusual effect of the NLT contains on priorities discussed in a separate thread, I find that when it comes to activity priorities, everything is quite log...
Dear all,I would like to get some guidelines from more experienced colleagues in the situation of using Earned Value in the following scenario:Before the start of the project I have created project schedule and based on this schedule the project cost...
Hi Guys, I was just wondering if anyone can help with the following problem. I am a relatively inexperienced planning engineer (3-4 years experience). I am looking to improve my knowledge by completing some formal qualifications within our expertise....
I have been using P6 since 2008 but I still miss some smart features of P3. My favorite two is below. What is yours?- Floating successor, predessor and recources windows.- Smart keyboard shortcut keys which lets you navigate, input and check the dat...