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P6 Licensing question

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My company currently has concurrent Licensing of P6 for for their users and I was wondering if I were to install a standalone license on my machine would that require us purchase an additional license?  What I am going to be doing is accessing the P6...

Aug 18, 2015

NOTPRMUSER displaying in P6

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Getting a login of NOTPRMUSER for certain projects.  After reading an article it says this is a hidden generic Oracle account that is used if data is updated directly to the P6 Database in most cases instead of through a P6 module. Has anyone seen th...

Aug 19, 2015

Resource Assignment

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Hello, All Please help me with my below query: In User preference my time units for time is set in days. Activity A is having original duration of 28 days. This activity requires 24 technician perday for 28 days.  So when i assign the technicain reso...

Aug 19, 2015

Primavera P6 Portfolios

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Here's how to create and utilize user defined project portfolios in Primavera P6 http://ow.ly/R5Lad

Aug 19, 2015

Display Activity Code values in schedule only, not "empty" bands

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Hi,I have 5 Activity Codes assigned to the activities in my schedule and these are all included in the Group By column of the Group and Sort window. The last Code is “Discipline” and one of it values is “Cable”.Within the Cable node in the schedule I...

Aug 20, 2015

Dependence of B2B Companies on Automation Proposal

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Automation proposal of today is driven by the attractive motto as well as tagline, “create, collaborate and captivate”. According to statistics, B2B companies spend an average of 16 percent of their annual budget creating and distributing marketing c...

Aug 21, 2015

Late units & Early units

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Hi,I have been posted to another project site and that is supposed to finish by 31 Dec this year. And have some strange result of man-hour report in the programme. The Remaining Late Units man-hors finishing 19 weeks (Nov 2016) earlier then the Remai...

Aug 24, 2015

Late units & Early units

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Hi,I have been posted to another project site and that is supposed to finish by 31 Dec this year. And have some strange result of man-hour report in the programme. The Remaining Late Units man-hors finishing 19 weeks (Nov 2016) earlier then the Remai...

Aug 24, 2015

Is there a shortcut way of entering progress on ASTA?

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Hello everyone, I was wondering if there was a shortcut way of entering progress into ASTA activities.I know that you can select the little box on the bottom corner and also use the mouse to drag percentage on the actual bar.However I was wondering i...

Aug 24, 2015

PMSDK: Connecting via standalone VB script (Visual Studio)

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Hi all,I have looked at previous related topics and they have got me as far as the (hopefully last) hurdle. I get an error when my VB script tries to access the database through PMSDK. My setup is as follows;I am running a standalone install of P6 Pr...

Aug 24, 2015

How to schedule a resource to switch from a job to another

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Hello,I'm schedulling an engineering job, MEP.the plan for mechanical as follows:there are 3 desginers, each will take a division - pluming 1 engineer, HVAC 1 engineer, and FF 1 engineer.each have a drawing list with assigned hours for each drawing, ...

Aug 26, 2015

Group & Sort - WBS ???

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Hello.I am hoping there is a sorting solution that someone can help me with.Can the WBS be sorted by Start Date? I'm in the Planning Stage of a project that has 11 buildings. If I change sequencing, Building 8 might be the 1st one being worked on, bu...

Aug 26, 2015

Problem with Primavera P6 version 8.3.2

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Dear all,I am using P6 version 8.3.2. I loaded one non-labour unit as weight factor for activities. Activity types are fixed duration and unit. After a few updates, now I see in my schedule, all the non-labour units assignment has changed which means...

Aug 26, 2015

Help Required - How to actualise several activities at once

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Morning all,I wonder if somenoe can tell me a quick way to actualise several activities at once in P6?I am working on a programme that has several structures within it each with their own WBS section, however a couple of the structures have been remo...

Aug 27, 2015