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Cost Accounts

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Hi,Can we allocate Cost Accounts to the Resources and Expenses via exporting and importing spreadsheets?Please explain the procedure for it.Thabks in advance!

Jan 2, 2017

Activity Padding

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Paul it looks like you are still having anger problems.

Jan 3, 2017

Importing: PDF to ASTA?

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Hi All, An odd question; is anyone aware of a way to import a PDF* back into ASTA? I have inherited a few historic programmes and it would be nice to not have to re-create them! Many thanks, C *to clarify, the document is a PDF of an ASTA file.

Jan 3, 2017

Career advice for Planning Engineer with 1.8 Year experience

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Hi,I'm a Planning Engineer with 1.8 year work experience in construction industry, UAE. I've a Diploma in Project Planning and Management and a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering. I want to know what might be the best advice for taking the n...

Oct 8, 2016

Quick Tip: Assign Same Resources to Multiple Activities in P6

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Earlier this week someone asked me if they could perform a Fill Down with resources in P6 and when I said no, the next question was is there a way to quickly assign same resources to multiple activities? This quick tip outlines steps that answer this...

Oct 8, 2016

Are we all a bit negative?

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Recently, several people have commented that as a profession, PMO and Projects people tend to be negative. But are we really? I did some analysis on the #PMOT twitter tag and the results are overwhelmingly positive. What are your views?Full article h...

Oct 9, 2016

Forensic delay analysis with an automated simulation engine.

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Dear all,I know that many Planning Planet users have previously expressed an interest in Delaymaster, our start-up software tool designed to perform forensic delay analysis computations and calculate extension of time entitlement at the touch of a bu...

Oct 10, 2016

WBS changed after Importing XER file

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i have a situation where after exporting my project and send it to our planning team on project when they try importing the Xer file the WBS is not correct , its all under one level of the WBS what could be the Issue ?

Oct 10, 2016

Planning Software of major Engineering

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Dear All,I am working for an engineering chemical company as PCM and have been evaluating for 2 years, several softwares, due to our growing on internationnal project.I intend to present to my management the shortlist. In order to securise my recoman...

Oct 10, 2016

Use of BIM for Planning Engineer

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I am Planning Engineer, I am thinking of learning BIM but I am confused should I do it or not.Many People tell me it is of use for a draughtsman job who wants to move up in his career. I have read on internet that it helps in finding contruction diff...

Oct 12, 2016

Planning and BIM ?

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I am Planning Engineer, I am thinking of learning BIM but I am confused should I do it or not. Many People tell me it is of use for a draughtsman job who wants to move up in his career. I have read on internet that it helps in finding contruction dif...

Oct 12, 2016

P6 Update Start & Finish Date Time problem

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Hi All, I have a problem about update my schedule. When I imported my actual dates from excel to primavera, I see my actual start & finish column shows 00:00 time format Even though my works time starts 08:00 and finish 16:00. This couses unexpected ...

Oct 12, 2016

Technical Deliverable Progress Measurement Software

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Hello Everyone, Could you please tell me which is the best Software suitable for a Technical Deliverable Progress Measurement. For a very huge project we would have lot of engineering deliverables say by main healding Process, Mechanical, Piping, Ele...

Oct 12, 2016

Activity Usage Spreadsheet with financial periods

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Hello,I am trying to get an accurate cost spread for my project.We do not use resources only expenses and we have specific financial periods which I have set up in the admin tab.However, when I show the activity usage spreadsheet on my layout, the co...

Oct 12, 2016

Converting Activity Codes to WBS in P6

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Hi all,Is there a way to convert Activity Codes to WBS in P6. I have searched and some people suggested to use SDK. First i dont know what SDK is and i dont have that too? I would appreciate if anyone could suggest the easiest way to convert. Thanks,...

Oct 12, 2016

Planned Labor Costs

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Hi all,I'm trying to have an activity with a set labor cost. This is a cost that has been agreed upon for the activity and shouldn't change. Staff record to a timesheet.  Different staff have different rates. My problem is that when applying actuals ...

Oct 13, 2016

Compensation Events

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Hi all Apologies if this has aready been asked / answered.Can anyone guide me in the best direction on how to schedule compensation events into the project baseline? Im working under the NEC contract.Thanks James

Oct 13, 2016

External Links in p6 Schedule need removing - inter project links

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So i have opened my schedule today in p6 and relised someone else has copy parts of my project into their's as they needed the same type of activities in there schedule. However when they have copied and pasted the WBS it they seem to have had the On...

Oct 14, 2016