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P6 Earned Value

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Hi FolksNeeding a bit of advice on P6 Earned Value calculations.  Currently I have my schedule and I note that after updating progress   the "earned value"  is not calculated for activities that have been added after i set my baseline ( ie. activitie...

Oct 6, 2012

New Planner in New Industry

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All, This is my first post but I'm hoping for a good response as I've heard good things. I am a junior planner who has been given a role as a planner in a new position (Aerospace to now Subsea) and have been told that I will have my own project(s) to...

Oct 6, 2012

Activity Linking

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Hi,         What is the the Logic of providing a FF and FS relationship to same activity ?Any one please help. Sabu

Oct 7, 2012

Re: Importing Issues for Microsoft Project.

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Hi Guys, Hope all is well? After abit of assistance if you can. I'm currently a young Junior Planner having difficulty importing a Microsoft Project file into the P6 version 7 Programme.    I've got a MPP 2003 file format all ready and what I'd like ...

Oct 8, 2012

Defects Liability Period in the Activity?

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Dear All, Is it possible to include Defects Liability Period in the schedule?I don't understand what does the Project Consultant mean with this.Is there any possible option on how can I do this? Thanks!

Oct 8, 2012

2 Years Experience

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Hi, As Senior planners and managers, what would you expect from a planner with 2 years experience, coming into a role within your company.I am moving into an unrelated company and am a planner with 2 years experience (however around 14 months of this...

Oct 8, 2012

Layout with user defined data

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Dear All, How to export layout with user defined data (p6-7) to another pc and saving all full data.

Oct 9, 2012

Curtain from Calendar

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Hi. I'm new to the forum.   I want to create curtains in the bar view based on nonworking months in a calendar. Is that possible.   Hawken

Oct 9, 2012

Baseline Remaining Units and Costs

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Hello Guys, Can anyone guide me how can I get values for Baseline (BL) remaining units and Baseline remaining costs? My problem is when I look at the columns available, I don't find the columns for BL Remaining Units and BL Remainings Cost? Thanks Ij...

Oct 9, 2012

Changing Resources on an Activity with Actuals

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Morning all!, I need to clean up a database for my new company (poorly managed for a few years) and I am going through a process for rationalising the calendars and resources to start with.Calendars has been an easy part but im struggling with the re...

Oct 10, 2012

Active Project most important items

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Dear all Can you please answer the following questions? What is the purpose of prepare a list of most important items for running project? What are the purpose and the objectives of highlighting the project most important documents? Best Regards, Abe...

Oct 10, 2012

Global change to show column with future schedule % complete

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Hello and Good day all,I wish to ask for expert guidance on how to utilise global change and display a column containing next month's schedule % complete in P6 v7 SP3.In other words, the schedule % complete for next month's schedule with 'update prog...

Oct 11, 2012

Free tools for planning, scheduling, tracking multiple projects

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Hello all,I would appreciate if you could share your experience/recommendation for free PM tools (excluding Excel-Gantt alternatives) in task-based planning, scheduling and time-based tracking of multiple small projects (e.g. internal projects). Inde...

Oct 11, 2012

Equipment as work resource

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Hello all,What is your best practice in assigning both non-people resources (equipments, tools, instruments etc...) and people resources as work resources to the tasks in multiple resource assignments ? In addition to expecting your invaluable commen...

Oct 11, 2012

MSP Resource planning and tracking question.

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Hi guys, Would like to now how you plan your projects with resources/hours. Right now I am using Duration, Work, Rem Work and Act Work for tracking a project. Some only use Duration and then work with the Task Usage sheet I think? Would appreciate so...

Oct 11, 2012

Primavera Import

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Hi,I have a requirement of creating planning data (Activities, Resources)xml file  through with importing to Primavera should be possible.What should be the schema of that xml file and what should be the format.Can any one help me out by giving the s...

Oct 11, 2012

submission and approvals prior to commencement date

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Dear PP experts,I am developing a tender programme for a quite complex resort and hotel tower buildings in a tight completion timeframe.The qusetion is, "Is it contractually acceptable to make any submission and approval request from the Engineer imm...

Oct 11, 2012

UDFs in bottom layout

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What I would like to see is any UDF assigned to an activity in the bottom layout, preferably in the "Codes" tab.  Is this possible?  Showing a specific UDF as a column is no problem, but I would like to see whatever UDF I have assigned to an activiti...

Oct 11, 2012