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P6 Data Date

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Hi All,Can you pls explain the real meaning of Data Date in P6. Is it the same thing as Project Kick Off Date (Start Milestone) and if it is or not, does it need to change anytime I reschedule.

Aug 25, 2014

Critical Activity

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 Hi All,I made a schedule of about 99 activities and after running my F9 (schedule), I found out that all my activities havenegative total float and turned every activities to be critical because I set my critical to "Total Float equals or less than ...

Aug 25, 2014

P6v7 SDK Object-Defined Error

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In the SDK activity6.xls file when pressing "Update Project List" I receive the following error in the ErrorRpt tab:"Row 0: application-defined or object-defined error." I recently installed stand-alone P6v7 on Oracle XE.  I included SDK setup into t...

Aug 25, 2014

Shrink activity codes rows not relevant to an activity

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Hi,When I group and sort activities by activity codes in the order; PHASE, EWP, CONTRACTOR and DISCIPLINE, there are 4 rows on top of activities for each code. If there is single activity and I assign it two codes PHASE and EWP, remaining two rows ap...

Aug 26, 2014

Activity % Complete

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Hi Members,Can anybody help me with updating activity % complete from importing excel file. I am currently facing issues in this. I can and have been able to export my p6 file to excel, update and re-import and its all working fine for BudgetedTotal ...

Aug 27, 2014

Construction sch. link to M/C sch.

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I'm a construction planner of offshore facilities such as fixed platform, FPSO, SPAR for oli&gas industries. WE've divided FPSO into small structural block (200~400 EA) and prepare consruction schedule for each small structural block. And then small ...

Aug 28, 2014

Resource Names and Automatic Capitalisation

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HiI'm typing in resource names in the "Resource Names" column, and the odd one is automatically capitalising the first two letters and I don't want it to (I think this is because I may have typed the name in incorrectly at some point, pressed return ...

Aug 28, 2014

P6 - Budget at task level and Actuals at Summary level

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I would like to enter budget cost by loading resources and expenses on activities (for example carpenter 8 hrs, truck 1 day, lumber $250), but our accounting system tracks cost at a higher level, so I would like to enter actuals at a higher level. Is...

Aug 28, 2014

GPC still a going concern?

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Hi Jo or anyone else from GPC, Can you give us a bit of an update on what is going on with the GPC please? The fellowship applications process seems to have completely stalled, and I can't find any evidence of any activity in any area from GPC since ...

Aug 29, 2014

Problem with Primavera Export from P6v7 to P6V8.3.2

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Hello There,  I just created a schedule using Primaver P6v7 and everything looks fine just as expected but the problem Im facing now is that my boss uses Primavera P6 v8.3.2 and something is not looking right when he imported the file into his system...

Aug 29, 2014

Resource Assignment Dates not equal to Activity Dates

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I am experiencing consistent problems with the dates on the Resources assigned to an Activity being at variance to the dates of that activity despite them being originally aligned.Does anyone know the mechanism, settings or steps that may been taken ...

Sep 1, 2014

Urban Planning

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Dear All,I am preparing a schedule for urban design, need you cooperation to advise the project phases that we are using for urban planning ThanksRamin

Sep 3, 2014

Need to configure database every time I log in P6 8.3.2

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Dear All,Recently every when I want to log in P6 it asks me to configure database! I didn't have this problem before. would you please advise?Also it take a long time (around 3 minutes) for P6 to come up , also it didn't have this issue before.Would ...

Sep 4, 2014

Need to configure database every time I log in P6 8.3.2

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Dear All,Recently every when I want to log in P6 it asks me to configure database! I didn't have this problem before. would you please advise?Also it take a long time (around 3 minutes) for P6 to come up , also it didn't have this issue before.Would ...

Sep 4, 2014

Choosing the right certification

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Dear All,Ii have completed 3years diploma in Electronics & Communication with 5years exp. working as Planning Engineer in Saudi Arabia (Gulf). I would like to know the best suitable certification. Im in delimma regarding few certification such as1. S...

Sep 4, 2014

P6 Checkout Feature

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Can someone explain how the checkout feature works and a good example where it will be useful. I know when someone checkout a project it becomes readonly so that noone can modify it until it is checked back in. Primavera gave an example where a sched...

Sep 5, 2014