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Cost change when export / import layout

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Hello, I have exported my plan (as a save) and then when i import it back some of the budgeted cost figures are lost or changed. Nobody else has access to the plan. I cannot understand why this is happening, could there be a hidden formula or such th...

Apr 4, 2012

Importing from excel to P6

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Good day all,I have an issue with import from excel to P6.Can I seek any of your expertise is advising me on how to create resource ids particular for a project, assign these to activities  in MS excel and them import them in to P6.Cheers,Srinivasan

Apr 5, 2012

WBS / PERT add-on

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Is there an add-on for P6 that will create WBS and PERT charts easily such as Critical Tools has built for MS Project.

Apr 5, 2012

Database Cofigurations

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I am installing stand alone p6 on my laptop. Its 64 bit, AMD laptop.After installing P6 & have following error:Bad public user name or password. Database Server Error: Named Pipes Provider: Could not open a connection to SQL Server [67].Any suggestio...

Apr 6, 2012

Substantial Completion Issues

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Our project is actually delayed and it's due to the client. The client acknowledges the delay (for a lot of reasons), thus agreed to give the contractor a time extension (Time B). However, the developer where the client has a contract with to finish ...

Apr 7, 2012

High Ways Activities

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Dear All ,Could you please guide me for main Highway activities or sending me  detailed sample for high way schedule Thanks,Amro

Apr 7, 2012

876 critical activities and 6 longest bath

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Dear Schedulers, I am reviewing schedul with 7000 activities and 876 critical activities and 6 longest bath. So, do you think those ok numbers I mean 876 critical and 6 longest bath for like this project and what is the avarge should be? Thank you ag...

Apr 8, 2012

Overtime input in Primavera P6

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hi ,I am new in Primavera P6, I am facing problem in allocating overtime to an activity.Suppose i have one activity which is of 5 days, and worker normal working is 8h/d , and one resource work on this activity whose rate is $100/h . So total cost of...

Apr 9, 2012

Solving negative float in Primavera P6

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I recently created a baseline schedule and now that I'm updating on a regular basis, I realize I'm getting huge negative float numbers (of up to 3 digits), especially on ongoing activities. Just would like to know the opinion of the experts that have...

Apr 9, 2012

Password protect a plan ????

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Dear All,Where I currently work there are a number of admin superusers that tend to "meddle" in plans that causes issues. Unfortunatley I cannot revoke this status therefore I'd like to "password protect" a couple of my plans if that is possible simi...

Apr 10, 2012

My P6 is very slow

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Dear Friends Iam working on Primaver 6 R8.1 - SQL SERVER 2005 my problem is that making any process now take extraordinary time. opening one file take may be 15 minutes, opening 2 files together to make any work take more than 30 minutes. i checked p...

Apr 11, 2012

Open V7 in P6.0

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Hi there, Is there an easy way and/or any tips to follow when trying to open a V7 file into P6.0 thanks jamie

Apr 11, 2012

Activities Relations

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Dear Schedulers,I have WBS and the all activities in it are FS relations so, each one should start dierect behaind the processor is finish. But what happend I have gab now beteen two activities 20 days as far as the relation is FS. So, any idea why t...

Apr 11, 2012

Baseline Target Schedule

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I am using P6 V6.2. When I create a baseline using Create from Current Schedule it is not saving the latest / current schedule. Every month I need to generate snapshot target or new baseline of this month status. We use this to measure variance betwe...

Apr 11, 2012