An interesting problem has just arisen.We use fully resourced and costed programmes using P6R8 and I have just come across this.Our resource charge out rate changes every 1st April so I have added effective dates and correct resource charge out rates...
I have a project that I have imported from MSP. I have 215 activites in which within this I have 7 sites. Is it possible to replicate each site within my activities for 6 years. (example Site 1-activities associated with each. It shows the schedule...
Hi All,I just came accross a demand from my project Manager.He asked me about the Earned value cost till the End of September,2011.The Program is only Cost Loaded (Using Expence Tab and there are not unit (Resources).I know that if you Reverse the da...
Hi All Primavera Users, I have created financial perioods for a Project "Project A" but when I created another project separately "project b" and tried to creat Financial periods for it,I have found that the Financial Periods for "Project A" are alre...
Hello good morning to my fellow planners. I am in a predicament of estimating manufacturing durations which I have to incorporate to my Master Schedule Most of them are Mechanical Equipments. Strippers, Vessels, Heat Exchangers, Tanks, Filters, In-Li...
Hi All I am importing progress data and am finding the Actual finish dates are not importing. The steps follwed are below. Export Activity ID, Activity Description, Actual Start, Actual Finish, Remaining Duration & Percent Complete using a .DBF file....
Dear all, I need your assistance. My boss is asking me about the fixing of the manhours for unit of work. I do not know how I can do this. Thank you.
hi planners, how can i assign and define the area of a project..means the schedule for glazing of a building,the wbs prepared is based on floors- 1st floor,2nd floor etc.. i want to add and show the total area of glass using in each floor and no of d...
Please can soem one explaine to me what teh function of "Planned Dates" are in P6 and what benfit or use they are best used for ?
I have tried to delete global calendars but they will not delete due to being used on other projects.I have deleted all other projects and resource codes.They are not used any were else.I am thinking the problem is in the baselined project. How do i ...
I have a calender setup that is showing standard for all my activities and what I want is to change them all to a 7 day working week. I have added the column calender in and then I chose one activity with the 7 day a week in it, but it is not allowin...
I have an activity that when it finishes I allow 2 weeks approval until I then start my other activity below this. How do i go about adding a 2 week approval period as I thought I just needed to add a constriant within my next activity saying start...
hello everyone my design engineer gave me his planned hours.But his hours are not following any fixed pattern.Can someone help me how do i add his hoours.I have add this picture to give you an idea of what I have to do These hours are planned hour...
Hello, I'm new to this forum and have used p3 off and on years ago and had some exposure to p5, my background is more toward Project Controls - Cost management rather than scheduling. Here is my issue/question: I was told by the PM not to baseline ...
Good day for you,I need to filter all the activities are in progress within certain period typically to that is highlighted with the progress spotlight option. Would you please advise how to create such a filter?Thanks.
I'm using P6. I know that Primavera calculates Percents Complete like schedule%, unit%, physical% after starting the project and entering the actual values. but in the Planning Phase how can I get the planned % for each activity in every time period?
Hi Friends, How to fiilter the activities of a particular month, which neither starts nor ends in that particular month, but will be in progress stage during that month. Assume as a baaseline schedule For eg: Activity 1: Dec 2011 to Jan 2012 Act 2 ...
Dear friends I’m planning for a manufacturing company which manufactures Steel Structures. Here is description of what I should plan: Column: 200 ton Stairs: 400 ton Handrail: 500 ton I defined the amount of ton as the budgeted Units of resource fo...
Hi. There are 4 milestones in a project(P6 R8). One finishes after the other but are not linked to each other. How do you calculate the float for each milestones. Usually the float is being calculated from the last milestone of the project.
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