HelloI am just starting out in planning and I don't have much experience when it comes to estimating durations. My question is, is it best practice to use whole days when inputting activity durations? I understand that having fraction or decimals of ...
HelloI have a couple of questions regarding the calendar within P6.1) If you are working on a project which starts with only a day shift then so far into the project a night shift is introduced, do you need to reflect this night shift work in the cal...
Hi all, I Have problem after importing project to primavera p6 17.7 , everything is ok except the resources names become and appear in a starnge symbols, tried to change fonts from table font and row option , but no changes, Also changed the windows ...
Hello everyone, Can you suggest any interesting conferences, events, gatherings (large and small) comming up in 2019, associated with the following topics? - technical scheduling/planning- oracle primavera p6 focused- turnaround/shutdown processes- p...
I am opting out of this discussion - the theme was "Leveling effort instead of resource quantity is wrong" but from the very beginning it was hijacked into a discussion completely irrelevant to the main theme.Sorry for any inconvenience.Best Regards...
Morning all, If I add the column Physical % complete, is there a reason it won't show me that percentage on the top line as it does with schedule % complete etc? Is there a way to make it do so or is it a calculation problem that causes it?Thanks, T...
Can aonyone help ,I am trying to create a filter for tasks that have slipped at a specific progress period but cant work out how to do this.Can ayone advise?ThanksChris
Because Blogs and Forums are under separate tab and have a different layout there must be some reason and purpose for this. Perhaps is how postings are moderated but I do not want to speculate, better if PP Admin tells me.No matter what the reason a...
Hello Everyone,What are the Ativities to be considered in a Piping Tie In Schedule. I do know Hight LEvel Activities but would like to know more like breaking it into Level 5.The case is " The Oil and Gas Plant is live and we would be shutting down t...
HelloI prepare my schedule on primavera p6... it has 3 wbs levels. All activities in same wbs level has their own IDs (for example superstructural works' ID = SP1000, SP1010, SP1020 in p6 schedule, and finishing works' ID= FNS1000, FNS1010,FNS1020 .....
Hi,I'm looking for step wise guideline for all 4 types of delay analysis. 1 - As Planned vs As Built2 - Windows Delay Analysis3 - Retrospective time impact analysis4 - Collapsed As Built.Detailed articles or books suggestions are also welcome..TIA
I have my programme fully resourced with "Consumable Resources" i.e Materials. I would ideally like to be able to export a spreadsheet which shows me:The quantity I have of each Consumable Resource The % of the Consumable Resource which has been use...
I exported a project from one computer so to import on another via an XER. The project has quite a few EPS level Activity Codes and none of these are coming over with the import onto the Lap top. Any reason why? There are no options to elimnate EP...
I exported a project from one computer so to import on another via an XER. The project has quite a few EPS level Activity Codes and none of these are coming over with the import onto the Lap top. Any reason why? There are no options to elimnate EP...
Hi All,I have recently imported few p6 files . The issue is that for some project's overall duration is not changing based on the calendar setting, coming under the default tab of the Project. But the overall duration is only changing based on the s...
G'day,I'm trying to export a simple Primavera P6 (XER) schedule to XML and keep getting Export Fail and the following msg: Prism.Modularity.ModuleInitializeException: An exception occurred while initializing module 'CommandLineModule'. - The exc...
Dear all, On what basis the Budgeted Units are calculated in the Resource Assignment? I need it to be based on the manhour, but in my Xer file it is based on something else, please chech the attached screenshots shown in the second one that the budge...
Some won't like it, but I tend to like all Activitiy Names or Desciptions in ALL UPPER CASE simply because it is easier to see. Is there a way to change the case quickly to all upper case? or Vice Versa. Just curious.... Jeff
I'm looking for some information on the Last Planner system? Any information or articles to read would be appreciated? So far all I've heard is that it involves a lot of post-its, so I'm looking for more information.Thanks
I want to display my project's resource allocations in team usage, but I keep getting the message:"One or more projects are not published. Publish projet to view data."Unfortunately, when I try to publish my project I find that the "Publish Projects"...