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Changing end date on progressed activity

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I've just started using Asta PP after working on P6, and I'm a bit thrown by how you accomplish even simple things.In P6 once I had marked the progress on an activity you could use the Anticipated end date to change the planned end date of a task, no...

Apr 11, 2017

Help with Histogram Excel

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hi guys, i want to make a labor histogram for interior fitout manufacture or production, how can i make days ,hours for 4 month, i have labors catergory carpenter, fabricators, helpers. with MS EXCEL i want to make siomple with 2d graph.please help m...

Apr 12, 2017

An sterisk on start or finish date

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 Hi All, What does an asterisk shown on start or finish date of an activity mean??I understood that this symbols comes up when the activity has a constraints date (any kind).I have received an schedule with asteriks on start or finish dates without a...

Apr 12, 2017

PrimaveraReader - Viewer for XER schedules

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A new way of viewing .XER project schedules exported from Oracle® Primavera P6. It’s a standalone application and offers greater control by providing each member with clear activity insights. PrimaveraReader is a reader for project schedules created ...

Apr 13, 2017

Design Deliverable Planning

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I have project which consists of quite a large  number of drawings.My cliet asked me to incorporate all drawings in the design and deliverables part of the project. Since i have to link all(majority of ) the drawing to construction part and each draw...

Apr 18, 2017

Integrated Project Controls system using PowerBI

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some random thoughts on how to build an integrated Project controls system using PowerBIhttps://datamonkeysite.com/2017/04/18/integrated-project-control-system-using-powerbi/  HTHMimoune 

Apr 18, 2017

Primavera P6 Professional Reporting

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Here's a quick primer on how to generate a tabulated report of schedule progress in Primavera P6 Professional http://ow.ly/JRLv30aWEZa

Apr 18, 2017

Scheduling Activities Just in Time for Its Successor

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I have equipment procurement activities that need to be delivered just in time for each install.  I place all the orders on Day 2 of the project.  I want to show, for each equipment, a lead time extending upto its install activity (its successor) sta...

Apr 18, 2017

Reference Lik Planning Planet?

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Hi Everyone,                For us www.planningplanet.com very good to discuss each and every topics as well as doubt also. Same like this forum,kindly request me other forum. It may helpful to everyone guys.   Thanks,Vasanth

Apr 18, 2017

Primavera P6 and XML Format Data Files Explained

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Primavera P6 Professional has the functionality to both export and import XML files. The question is what exactly is the XML data format? Here we answer that question http://ow.ly/f45p30aYPoS

Apr 19, 2017

summary bar label

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All,I'm organizing the layout using activity code, all the activity names are using English, and at the right side of the bar, I'm showing the bar label use another language to translate the activity names, so the people didn't know English can read ...

Apr 20, 2017

Loop checking in V 8.2 and 16.2

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I have been previously running 8.2 using progress overide on the programme. Occasionaly I have inadvertantly added logic that created a loop that was detected and removed from the programme. Otherwise the scheduling wont run.This month we upgraded to...

Apr 20, 2017

Missing activities after restoring the copied Baseline

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I have a very strange problem with many aspects,  I will illustrate it at the following points : 1. this problem occurs with many project not only one and at different PCs2. When copying an Assigned baseline from inside a project from the maintain ba...

Apr 20, 2017

Microsoft Project Row Height Adjustment Quick Tip

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It may seem like a minor point, but I discovered that adjusting the task table row height in Microsoft Project schedules is not readily apparent. Here's how you do it http://ow.ly/pkrq30b35Sb

Apr 21, 2017

Excel Import in P6 16.2 error message.... PLZ HELP

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I am trying to import a line, list IDs and Activity name is all i really need. In 16.2 it is giving me this error message....The User Preferences used to create this Excel file are not the same as your current preferences. Importing this file could c...

Apr 21, 2017