Good morning colleagues, I have some challenge which I haven't witnessed before... I added milestone summary in my WBS to enable users glance through the first page and understand the schedule but I just observed it wasnt effecting the date as suppos...
Is there a formula to calculate efficiency loss due to overtime/acceleration?
Hello Guys,Just like to know if some of you guys experience what we experience with the latest version of P6.We migrated from v8.4 to v17.12.2 and everything has been okay, but when we import our native .xer file and send it to a client with same ver...
Hi there.I am working on a project and I used the columns Budget at completion, Earned value cost, Planned value cost and suddenly they are showing exactly twice the data that is there in the resources tab. Any solution? Thanks
How will changing the default units/time from 1/d to 8/d or vice versa effect the calculations? I changed them in my schedule and so far didn't notice any change.
Hi there. I am doing resouce loading via excel and then I import the file into P6. I wanted to know, if someone among you is using this method, how to properly represent the data after importing it. for example a certain activity uses 12 mandays on c...
I am working on this prog that was made by someone else. I, don't assign cost or labor units to engineering activities such as submissions and approvals of materials, drawings etc because often these activities have a lot of float so they end up mes...
Planners of Planning Planet, what are the most common mistakes/oversights/errors that can be avoided at the begining of planning the prog and might prove to be consequential over the course of the time?
Hello Planners,Working with P6 8.4 on a France / UK project, I need to display the resource daily rate and budgeted cost in Euros for the french resources and in GBP for the english ones at the same timeI mean, I cannot answer the project director's ...
Hello,I would like to merge a repeating sequence of activities so that a single activity would have the predecessor and successor logic of the five constituent activities. I am not concerned about retaining any conflicting activity code, WBS, calend...
Guys I am sharing a new PowerBI application, it reads xer file and show some information WBSFloatPredecessors and driving relationship You need to install PowerBi desktop, which is a free application, please let me know if it works for you, and what ...
Hi,I work as a plannner in a big construction company. I want to show my boss how we can save/gaive money by planning. I have mentioned for example that we can see in a early stage that all extra work is delaying us. And with our baseline we can visu...
I got a brand new laptop with i5 CPU and 8GB ram. I installed P6 V17. When I move the split bar, black lines appear.What should I do?
Hi I'm quite new to planning / P6And have a resource assignments questionI am trying to export the1. Budgetted Units2. Actual Units3. Remaining Units I go into the Resources Assisgnemrnt Tab and select one of the above and copy the information into e...
Dear, I have intentionally allow more time in the early stage of the programme in order to avoid early warning from the architect if there is any delay, and more tight schedule at the later stage. The progress is actually delayed at the early stage d...
Dear All, Thank you for your support. I am creating a new resource loaded P6 (v7) Schedule for oil and gas project and Pipeline project (KSA).Kindly help me by providing the " Labor and Non Labor - Standard Productivity Norms/ chart/excel/ " or sugg...
Gentlemen, I am very new to this concept. I can create schedule and can create resources and assign in P6 (individual activites) , but I heard that we can import Resources from Excel to Primavera and also Vice versa.Kindly tell me how to upload the r...
Hi. Greetings to everyone. I am planning to switch to Project ( oil and gas construction). Currently I am in oil and gas maintenance. Honestly, I will be really grateful if anyone shares his project xer file to understand the project schedule. Waitin...
Hello,I am using P6 R16.2.4 version and Update Baseline Button is missing in the Maintain Baseline Window. Could you please advise how to fix it ?Thanks
As a bigenner planner, I have made a plan for a client as two projects, the start and finish dates for one of them are the actuals. whereas the start and finish dates of the other one are the planned ones, then I maintained the latter as a baseline t...