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I am trying ti establish a filter for hiding the activities in a schedule that are 100%.That is easy.My schedule is broken down by 4 areas.As part of that filter, I still need to show all activities (including the ones that are 100% complete) in 1 of...

Nov 26, 2013

Effect of NLT constraint

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Hi,I was playing with priorities and found the following effect, which I can’t logically explain.Just wondering whether it “works as designed” and id "yes", then what is the reason for it?Effect descriptionRule 1. Any activity, which has in it’s succ...

Nov 27, 2013

Updating Programme

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Hi,I have encountered people (planners & non planners) with 2 schools of thoughts when it comes to updating programme. 1) First Type (Static type) " The baseline programme logic and relationship is fixed, you can't change when updating."" Update the ...

Nov 27, 2013

Spreading High Level Costs Over Multiple Activities

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I'm not sure if this is possible (I've not come across it in other software) but I live in hope so I thought I'd ask people who are more knowledgable than I am with Asta....What I would like to know is whether the following scenario is possible in Po...

Nov 27, 2013

duration decimal

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Dear Mike/All ,      How to make duration in round figure? I have duration column in days. In which few duration  are showing  as 1d 30min and 2d 2h. I need to change these durations in round figure as 1d and 2d in the whole column. How to do that? A...

Nov 27, 2013

Multiple Calendars

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What should I do if I want to set many calendars with different start time and finish time for each day and also different working days e.g.  Calendar A start from Monday to Saturday from 8:00a.m. to 18:00 , Calendar B start from Monday to Friday fro...

Nov 28, 2013

Activity and phase priority rules

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 Rafael, Vladimir,I am still experimenting with priorities and if I don’t take into account the unusual effect of the NLT contains on priorities discussed in a separate thread, I find that when it comes to activity priorities, everything is quite log...

Nov 28, 2013

Planning qualifications

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Hi Guys, I was just wondering if anyone can help with the following problem. I am a relatively inexperienced planning engineer (3-4 years experience). I am looking to improve my knowledge by completing some formal qualifications within our expertise....

Nov 29, 2013

Which smart features of P3 do you miss?

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I have been using P6 since 2008 but I still miss some smart features of P3.  My favorite two is below. What is yours?- Floating successor, predessor and recources windows.- Smart keyboard shortcut keys which lets you navigate, input and check the dat...

Nov 29, 2013

Which smart features of P3 do you miss?

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I have been using P6 since 2008 but I still miss some smart features of P3.  My favorite two is below. What is yours?- Floating successor, predessor and recources windows.- Smart keyboard shortcut keys which lets you navigate, input and check the dat...

Nov 29, 2013

Requirements to develop an EPC schedule

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What are the requirements to develop (from scratch) a level 3 project schedule for the following phases? - Engineering - Procurement - Construction Thanks,

Nov 29, 2013

can i change 1 word within multiple activity names?

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hi all   i have been given a plan to run that i didnt build myself and the plan has a few errors, there is around 200 tasks that are identifying the wrong peice of equipment were working on so rather than change each 1 individually i was wondering if...

Nov 30, 2013

Formulas

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I would like to create a column that has a dollar value multiply it by another column to give me a total in a third column

Dec 1, 2013

Fixed Works and Duration

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hi ms project expert. is there any option to assign a fixed amount of works and a duration to activities,basically I have the amount of work for the activities from the estimation software, and I want the duration to be independant from the resource ...

Dec 2, 2013

Critical path-Longhest path

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Dear all, In P6 critical activities are defined by either the total float or the longhest path. I set up a program in P6 ver7.2 and when I calculate the critical path using the Longest Path filter, the result is an empty page, meaning no activities i...

Dec 2, 2013

Store Period Performance

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Is there any alternative or equivalent method for store period performance to update resource along project life cycle with accurate way

Dec 2, 2013

Primavera P6: Critical, or not so Critical?

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Because Primavera P6 Professional has such a flexible method for defining how activity bars appear in a Gantt chart, you can create extra bars whose appearance can be controlled by the amount of Total Float they have. This allows you to easily see ne...

Dec 2, 2013

Event code..

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Dear colleagues,I have a problem with the Oracle Primavera P6 v7.0.After an exportation the project (.xer format) appear a windows event with de following events codes:AVAA0 - 2191 - CAVAA0 - 1637 - 5AVAA0 - 2295 - CACTAO - 1567 - Ban then [[wysiwyg_...

Dec 2, 2013

Earned Value S Curve from Project 2010 visual informs

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Hello everyone, This is my first post over here, and I have a question about S Curve (PV, EV & AC). Everything works out good on project 2010 when exporting the data to Excel, I even managed to customize the spreadsheets to my convinience, but there ...

Dec 3, 2013