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Resource Calendar

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If I have an activity, and the calendar for that activity is on a 7 day work week calendar but there is a resource assigned to that activity that has a resource calendar that is 5 day work week, will that limit my activity to 5 days a week? So if act...

Sep 28, 2012

Import

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Hi Everyone!!!  Pls tell how to import the wbs with heirachy from excel to primavera p6.

Sep 29, 2012

Manpower definition

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Hi guys I have a basic question pleaseCould someone enlighten me by what is meant by manpower, production rates and difference between manhours with manpower.Any explanation is much appreciated.

Sep 29, 2012

Reduce the Activity Duration (P6 7.0)

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 Hello GuysAs simple as this question may seem I’m new to Primavera P6.I’m trying to add resources to an activity, to reduce the activity duration. For example, it takes 1 man 10 days to build a wall, however if I add another man to the activity (2 m...

Sep 30, 2012

Coordination Strategy between Planning & Procurement Section

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Hello All;I have felt that in my new company there are many issues related to coordination between planning section & Procurement section.Although they come up with a plan togather and agree in the start but after that it seems that no one get stick ...

Sep 30, 2012

S Curve Reporting

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Hi, I need some help. Hope I can explain this okay. Going back on some old topics I found many discussions around s-curves. The one thing I can’t find is how to pull an overall curve that includes engineering, procurement and construction. I measure ...

Oct 1, 2012

Lost Actvity Codes

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Can anyone tell me why I lose my Activity codes if I copy a project ? I note that this is one of the options presented when copying but despite checking the box my activity codes don't copy into the new project. The workaround I have been using is to...

Oct 1, 2012

WBS Summary Question

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I was wondering if it is possible to do the following.  I have an activity that I would like to breakdown into three seperate sub  activities.  I have the estimated hours lets say 1500 hours for a total duration of 15 days.  I would then breakdown th...

Oct 1, 2012

Qualitative Risk Assigning

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Can we assign qualitative risk to set of activities from a particular WBS by just selcting WBS in Primavera Risk Analysis? To assign risk by checking individual activity is very time consuming. Thanks  Umerfarook Deshmukh

Oct 2, 2012

S curve in excel

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Hi Guys I need your assistance Quick question please, I  am trying to draw an S curve from P6 data showing early and late start together with actual In the resource assignment option of P6, under display - spreadsheet fields  -Customise, what are the...

Oct 2, 2012

Import P3 files to P6.8.2

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 Hi all,I have an issue importing P3 Files into P6.8.2 in win 7 . I am trying to import an old P3 project using Import command. When I go to file and choose import and check box to select project then press next this msg appear " an application event...

Oct 3, 2012

Suretrak Activity Delay Problem

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I'm having a problem with an 'unknown' delay in Suretrak.My preceeding activity 'activity A' has a 1 day duration ending on September 27th, the following activity 'activity B' is set to to start immediately after (finish-to-start relationships betwee...

Oct 4, 2012

Problem with Schedule% and Performance % calculation in summary level

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Dear masters, I need your help to clarify my problem with Overall % calculation of schedule&performance % calculation.  In my schedule : Activity Percent complete type: physical% complete. In all activities I manually enter Physical% complete. Acivit...

Oct 4, 2012

Creating TIA

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Hi Every one,Quick question. I have received a Time Impact Analysis from the Contractor who has used Baseline Schedule to show the impact of a delay which he thinks has been caused by the Owner. However, the project schedule has already gone through ...

Oct 5, 2012

PMI-SP Examination

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The PMI-SP examination will be updated on the 1stSeptember 2013. I’m not sure how extensive the changes will be but all five ‘domains’ within the examination have been re-named and some re-focused. If you are thinking of taking the exam before the ch...

Oct 6, 2012

PMI Changing the PMI-SP Examination.

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The PMI-SP examination will be updated on the 1stSeptember 2013. I’m not sure how extensive the changes will be but all five ‘domains’ within the examination have been re-named and some re-focused. If you are thinking of taking the exam before the ch...

Oct 6, 2012