Hello Gurus! I have always been taught (maybe incorrectly) and used hard constraints - Start On / Finish On - for the first and last activity in my P6 schedule. I have completely stayed away from soft constraints because I'm not familiar with them a...
Hello Again! I have another P6 question......We have set up a filter for 2 week look ahead and it works. However, instead of using the high value of DD+2W, we changed it to DD +13d (due to projects having different data dates). The problem is, we a...
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Morning all, I've recently had installed a newer (17.3) version of P6. I've got a copy of a submission from last month which I'm comparing to a submission this week. However for some reason the dates aren't coming through correctly.I've assigned th...
Is there a way to adjust the field size or font size to make the values readable in this view. The only time I can read the values is when i set the time scale to days.I want to see what I have and make adjustments before i move it over to Excel. tha...
Hello All, How would you represent Duration and Hours in Minutes. If you want the duration to be 15 minutes what would we type it in hours 0.15H or the duration is 45 min = 0.45H If we want a resource to work 1/2 an hour would we type 0.30H or if a r...
I am starting to think that what makes a great schedule is what you don't put in it - what should you leave out? for example: P6 schedule make a bad, redundant Submittals log (why do it twice) P6 should just have the dates from the log that effect d...
Hello,I am working on a project that will have multiple bid packages awarded over a 2 year period, so the schedule will grow as each bid package is awarded. The owner wants us to use earned value management. My plan is to create a high level schedule...
Has anyone incorporated a Supplier Schedule (From Microsoft Project) from a supplier, to monitor their performance and Earned Value, into their Project's P6 Schedule?Is there any tips or information, UDFs, consistency advice across formats and genera...
The predecessor completion date and successor start date are the same. For Example, if predecessor finishes on 04th Feb-18, 04:00 PM the successor start on 04th Feb-18, 04:00 PM instead of 05th Feb-18, 08:00 AM with 0 days lag. Kindly Help me to figu...
Hi all,I currently work at a company where, as of September, there is no longer going to be a requirement for a planner within the company (that planner being me!). Myself and several other colleagues in Project Controls will leave the company due to...
Good day everyone! I'm a novice user of Project, and i have problems with clients causing delays, and i wish to show this(if you agree this is the place to do it), within my ghantt chart for client, consultant and contractor to see this,,for my endg...
Hi,I'm trying to decompress a PRX file using the restore option in SureTrak. Whenever I click restore the software froze and has a message saying it is not responding. I tried to wait and not close the software but nothing seems to happen. Does anyon...
The predecessor completion date and successor start date are the same. For Example, if predecessor finishes on 04th Feb-18, 04:00 PM the successor start on 04th Feb-18, 04:00 PM instead of 05th Feb-18, 08:00 AM with 0 days lag. Kindly Help me to figu...
I am having trouple converting a file from MPX to MPP. Could someone help me out with a converter or something. Under pressure.
I am having trouple converting a file from MPX to MPP. Could someone help me out with a converter or something. Under pressure.
Hi there, new user in need of a bit of help. I have set up a few Cost Centres which I would like to allocate to tasks. Asta seems to set these Cost Centres up with a value of £0.62 as standard. This means when I enter 100 into the allocation part ...
I have a schedule file for Asta that needs to be imported into P6.The problem that I am having is that the schedule was created using the "Natural Order Hierarchy" instead of WBS.Is there a function that copies the "Natural Order Hierarchy" into a WB...
Dear All, I received these comments regarding program narrative from client."The Narrative shall define the strategy of how the Supplier will execute/implement the project including but not limited to; logic used in programme, calendar to be used, in...
Good EveningI use P6V8. The schedule I inherited has activties using "physical % complete" as most common way to status progress. So are milestones. As "activity percent complete based on activity steps" is checked at the project level, whenever I c...