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Can the approach to delay analysis in construction be standardised?

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  Delay to construction projects will often result in time and cost overruns. Such claims are at the heart of most construction disputes today, and the effort involved in resolving these claims is not without considerable time and cost to all parties...

Feb 9, 2011

Output Rates - where is the detail?

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What has happened to the previous history of output rates? when i now look on the rates pages of the new site its look as though there is a lot less than the prvious site. anyone else noticed or is it just me? 

Feb 9, 2011

Correcting actual dates

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Good day,After entering actuals for an activity, a finish date is wrong: the activity is not finished but it got an actual finish date assigned. I tried to correct this by going to the performance archive and deleting the finish date, but the field c...

Feb 9, 2011

softwares vs SAP

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Halooo Planner!anyone know what are the differences between primavera &asta powerproject &                          VERSUS                              SAP????????????????????microsoft project &spider. my friend said SAP is dominating than oracle.i l...

Feb 10, 2011

Job Alert

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Hi   Can someone point me to where the job alert is? I've been having a look but seem to miss it.Thanks in advance

Feb 10, 2011

how to generate S Curve in P6

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Hi all, Normally we do our S curve in excel,but I wanted to know 'how the S curve is generated in P6?

Feb 11, 2011

Import Dates from excel to P6

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When importing an excel file with Start and Finish dates to P6, it doesn't give me the correct dates. Instead the dates shown in P6 are only one date which is the project start date. Thus, could you please advise what format of dates required in exce...

Feb 11, 2011

Edit an activity more times in the same layout

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Hi all, I am a P6 Enterprise user and as per title of this topic, I have a problem to edit a layout in which I can see one activity more times in the same layout.  To explain you this issue better, please refer to this picture attached: [[wysiwyg_ima...

Feb 11, 2011

Project Cost

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Hi, I am trying to create a cost centre for my company here. I have a few question   a) i look at my company bill of quantities and it look scattered and i feel very hard to transfer the cost from my excel sheet prepared by my estimator to the progra...

Feb 11, 2011

20 hour shift

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Hello Project-teers, I'm missing a link in my brain and cannot figure out how to create a 20hr shift in "change working time" in MSP 2003. And, too, how might I create a resource calendar for a 2nd shift that works from 6PM to 4AM? Thanks, Eric

Feb 11, 2011

Procurement Plan vs Procurement Schedule

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Can the experienced guys tell me about the difference? I need to develop a Level 3 Schedule that includes engineering, procurement and construction. However, there is also a document called "procurement plan", which I think is managed by the procurem...

Feb 12, 2011

Variance Report in MS Project

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I need to compare the changes between this period (this month) and the previous period (last month) in order to see slippages in the schedule. I will appreciate any support on this matter.

Feb 12, 2011

Mile stone and float

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HI Friends,There are some dicrpency with my main contractor's plannerthe case is,i said to main contractor's planner that you can use a total float of an activity when the finish milestone is with Zero float. My main contractor's planner is having to...

Feb 12, 2011

Easy way to create WBS for P6 users

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Hi to all, It seems everyone in PP using P6 have already the file for easy creation of WBS. PATTLNK_1172008_031-WBS.xls. UNFORTUNATELY, I don't have yet the file. Can I request from some soft heartedly PP P6 users to share the file. Advance Happy Val...

Feb 13, 2011

baseline activities does not appear in the present schedule

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  Dear All   I am now working on a project. the project has started on jan 2011. so one month is over and i am updating the project for each  month. now i had to add some activites to the baseline project so i used the restore baseline option.there i...

Feb 13, 2011

Primavera Install

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I am trying to install stand alone version of P6 on my laptop.While Installing,I am getting error message:Error creating Project Management Database..same next error message:Error creating Methodology Management Database. For Database configuration.....

Feb 14, 2011