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Free Webinars in February 2021

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Here is a list of free project planning & scheduling webinars that will take place in Februaryhttps://www.plannersplace.com/blog/free-webinars-feb-21

Jan 30, 2021

Duration calculation when using 2 different Calendars in MS Project

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Hi,I'm hoping somone can help me with the following problem I'm having with MS Project. I have a project with Construction Activities (Standard Calendar appropriate) and Shutdown Activities (operating over 24hrs, 7 days a week calendar).I can create ...

Feb 1, 2019

Forecast Manhours Calculation - Engineering Deliverable

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Hello Everyone, Can anyone explain how to calcualte the Forecast MAnhours for a Engineering Document/Delvierables. Say for Example DeliverableBudgeted ManhoursPlanned %Actual %Earned ManhoursActual ManhoursForecasted Manhours ABCDEFTank Foundation Dr...

Feb 5, 2019

P6 Tracking Progress

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HiI have started with P6 few months ago.My issue is:Tracking progress on status tab: task Fixed Duration and Units, % complete type Physical. I chek the started, then Remaining days and % Physical based on actual and remaining days. If the task is de...

Feb 5, 2019

EOT

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Hi there.We submitted a baseline at the start of the project that was approved and had been following the same for some time. Then we revised the baseline by changing the construction methodology to change the sequence of activities and also the dura...

Feb 6, 2019

Text will not wrap after Import from Excel

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Hello all,I have successfully imported data to P6 via XL. I have some rather long "Activity Names" that refuse to wrap inside the field.I have tried ALL "Table Row & Font" settings to no avail.IF I copy the text into MS Word, then paste it back into ...

Feb 6, 2019

Change date format on Group & Sort

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Hi all,Trying to Group & Sort by Start Date (Group Internal =Day) and can't seem to find a way to change the date format. In my User Preferences, I have the Date Format set as Day, Month, Year yet in the Group & Sort it shows as Month, Day (US format...

Feb 10, 2019

Download Primavera PPM ver 18 from Oracle website

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Hi,I was trying to download the Primavera PPM stand alone ver 18.8, from oracle website.No I am stuck at the window, asking for the connection string and the data base configuration with username and password.Have anyone experienced it while download...

Feb 10, 2019

How can I Schedule from a known finish date backwards....

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I saw a scheduler do this once in P6 and I trying to replicate what he did. Say I need to be Finished on 12/31/19 and I have a schedule built out.  How can I schedule from that date backwards essentially given me the latest start of all activities to...

Feb 11, 2019

Man hours in oil and gas industry

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I always use a manhours in my job (oil and gas) with budget in manhours and lot of things in relation with it,but i always ask in my mind a question,why we use Manhour unit in the planning ?

Feb 11, 2019

LoE budgeted units not matching activity calendar

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I have a role assigned to a LoE (fixed duration & units/time) which has a standard 5 day calandar.Budgeted units / time is 100% and the total budgeted units in the resource assignments window match the activity duration. Planned dates match forecaste...

Feb 13, 2019

Problem Installing P6 8.3

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Hi everybody, I was using P6 6.0 without any problem. After some time , I ve decided the install SQL and installed. From that moment, I received database error from P6 when I try to log in. I tried to reinstall but nothing changed. In addition , whil...

Feb 14, 2019

Problem importing activities from excel

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Hello all,Here is the issue im facing;I made my activity list in excel with each WBS codes with the exact codes in Primavera. I then made one new activity in Primavera, exported the xls file, added the "Activity ID", "WBS code", "Activity name" and "...

Feb 14, 2019

Milestone Warning İndicator

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Dear All; i have a question about milestone that i want to see if its should be done in 2 months could be warned by ms project? for example: i have a summary task that building reinforced concrete works, and i linked this after a "rebar procurement" ...

Feb 16, 2019

P6 8.3 Install problem

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I am having problems intalling P6 on my machine. The following message is popping up:''Primavera P6 Professional R8.3.2 setup Wizard ended prematurely because of an error. Your system has not been modified. To install the program at a later time, run...

Feb 16, 2019

P6 Actual Cost

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Hello,In my P6 current settings, the actual cost is calculated as Total Units * Rate. The total units are collected from the period units. Is there a way to collect the actual cost from the Period Actual Cost? Say, the actual cost in Jan is 100$, Feb...

Feb 17, 2019

Updating Baseline

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I've tried updating a baseline in P6 and even if I change one activity by 5 days I receive the following error message in the log file. Assignment remaining start date cannot be earlier than activity remaining start date. Does the baseline not get up...

Feb 18, 2019

Activity Not Sorting Inside WBS Node

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Hello, I recently created a schedule and have it sorted by start date. I had to add a new activity with same start date and time as my first 2 activities and when I created the new activity it sorted it 3rd in sequence. I'd prefer to see this new act...

Feb 18, 2019