I'm exporting resource assignments from P6 to Excel, updating budgeted units, actual units, and at completion units, then importing and Excel sheet into P6. Once the import is complete, I noticed that the resource has been updated based on my import,...
Hi,Does anyone know how to assign a resource for a period in the middle of a task?I have a number of tasks that are say 10 weeks long, however I would like to assign different resources to the first 4 weeks the middle 2 weeks and the last 6 weeks but...
EveningJust thought I'd better check - fairly new to P6 with a basic setup so I've simply enabled Windows' File History to backup the PPMDBSQLite.db to an external HDD on an hourly basis, thinking if there were any irretrievable mistakes, I could the...
Dear All,I'm so pleased to write here, as recommended by my ex. manager to discuss here, I really look forward to hear your advice.In brief, I'm a planning Engineer, instructor of PMP & Primavera, and I already have worked partially within constructi...
I've just written about two options on how to recover a Primavera P6 password. I'm not sure my content is welcome here in the forums, so let me know if this is a subject that you're interested in this.
Good morning,I am struggling with Primavera to Copy Paste a schedule. When I select paste once schedule is copied, I do not have the option to select Summary Data, when I then select ok I recieve an error that reads Item not found and it gives me an...
I'm really struggling to run Primavera P6 Job services! Primavera P6 17.12, 15.2 and 16.1 64 bit (tried all with no luck)Database: oracle 11g JSDB alias is set with pubuser credentials.When I start the Primavera P6 Job service (JDBC) it stops after 1...
When attempting to import an XER from a new version of P6 to the 8.4 version I have, I get an error stating, "The import file is invalid."I have already changed the version number in notepad. This trick only works sometimes when I import files from n...
Hi all,Im curious to know if someone could explain how to apply for the jobs advertised in the 'Jobs' section. Do I need to be a premium member or part of the Guild or Certified? As I cannot see a method of actually applying for the jobs or a link to...
Hi allI have a 30 week programme that has a 2 week shutdown over Christmas. The current week numbers in the date zone show it coming out as 32 weeks, is there any way to not show week numbers over the 2 week shutdown?ie. up to week 5, then nothing fo...
I know that this is a somewhat open ended quation but I am trying to understand how many shutdown planners should we have in our business.I am fully aware that it is dependant on many factors including:skill level of the plannerSystem health of the C...
Hi,Im having a weird issue whereby I am exporting an XER of a project that has been progressed, changing it to a .txt file then opening it in Excel to "bulk add" activity codes. I then save the file, change it back to an xer and import the project.Ev...
Greetings,fluid structure is one of the many organizational structures in project management, in this structure different tasks are assigned to staff. I do not see any project manager in this structure, how the control will be done?best,Muataz
This question is for the any project management professional. Kindly describe the three relevant challenges, but possible solutions as well. Good examples can include challenges you’ve had personal experience with, along with effective solutions that...
Good day Experts,While changing the timescale from Days to monthly or quarterly or yearly in MS project, I'm getting the error of "Invalid argument" because of that, I cant able to change the timescale in MS project and the same MPP file I can able t...
Dear Experts,I'm holding PMP certification, and currently I'm looking for some risk management certification that has global validation and helpful for risk management professional carriers in the construction sector. Thanks in Advance.
Dear everyone,I am creating my own turnaround scheduling, and I am also confusing to select which of the WBS percent complete to reflect and track the progress of my schedule? I have read that "Performance % Complete is the final field, used for actu...
I'm in the process of rebaselining my projects and our management decided to implement SPI with the new baseline. As the revised baseline should show SPI of 1.00 (earned = planned or whatever earned is planned), I made the SPI equal to 1.00 by using ...
Hi everyone, I have a probleme with a project in P6, the dates ( delta of 1 minute but the date change to the day after ) of about 30 activities (30/1600) changes when i close and re open the project. I think that the problem comes from the excel th...
Hi All, I am trying to come up with a research question and general areas of study within planning and scheduling. They are as follows:To examine criticism of planning tools (primavera, MS project, Astra, full Project Management tools), traditional ...