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SDEF

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I just switched over to P6 after some 25 years on P3.Using the stand alone P6 SQLite I cannot use the SDEF converter for COE projects.   The P6  P330XER files not deploy in SQLite.Does anyone know of an xer to SDEF converter that will work outside th...

Jan 23, 2018

Primavera P6 - Reader

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Hi everyone,I have one quick question to see your opinion with Primavera P6 reader. I am working for a small size company and we don't have lot of P6 users/licences. Some of our project engineers are using MS Project for planning but with our new pro...

Jan 24, 2018

Copying Custom Calendar between projects

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I created a custom calendar for one project and want to use the same calendar for another project.  How do I copy it from one project to another?Jeff

Jan 24, 2018

Total Floats

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Hello Experts,I have two Questions1. What factors contribute to the high total float and What steps one may take to reduce total floats in a project?2. How to derive a credible longest path.Practical solutions are highly appreciated. Many thanks,Indr...

Jan 26, 2018

Acumen Fuse DCMA 14

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Using Acumen Fuse DCMA 14. Test 12 Critical Path test returns "N" on single project. But when performed with other projects same project returns "N/A". I can't find anywhere that explains why this is "N/A". Has anyone any idea as to why and what I ca...

Jan 26, 2018

Critical Path

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Hello Experts, What % of total number of activities in a baseline schedule should ideally be lying on the critical path (TF=0), a number from your extensive experience / best practice would suffice. thank you indra

Jan 26, 2018

Delay Analysis

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Dears,I am very pleased to type my first post here, I would like to express my thankful to all who support this websitemy question is related to EOT, I have submitted an EOT using TIA method regarding delay of handing over roads from third party who ...

Jan 27, 2018

Earned Value

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Dear all. I have a question in regards with the earned value. I have added cost resources to my project schedule, and assigned them to my activities. However, when I wanted to calculate the eaned value in MS project, all values remains zero, no matte...

Jan 28, 2018

Rules of Credit - Engineering

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Hello,Can some one tell me if you can earn on partial milestones? For example if I'm using the rules of credit below, can I earn 20%? ( in this case inital engineering is almost complete) Start 10%Initial Engineering 30%Engineering Review/Check 60%Fi...

Jan 29, 2018

Setting a start date

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Good morning,Might be a noobie question but I am fairly new to Asta.I am wondering how to set a line to start on a certain date and not follow the logic.To put it in context, we can have the gas connection completed after we have removed scaffold but...

Jan 30, 2018

Allow Long Lag or Use Soft Constraints - Question

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I represent a client that specifically requires limited use of lag if used at all. I have a situation where the contractor chose to delay a series of activates to improve the schedule. The schedule includes several buildings each could be considered ...

Jan 30, 2018

Is it worth to keep as less as possible tasks on a Kanban board?

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Hi All! I would like to know your opinions about the following workflow:1. planning with user story mapping, slicing out releases and sprints2. pushing tasks release by release or sprint by sprint to a Kanban board. Is it worth? according to this blo...

Jan 31, 2018

Help with External links

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Afternoon all, I have inherited a project which has links to multiple external projects within the same database.  Given that on the relationship tab of the activity details I can see the project ID the link comes from but i can't find a report that ...

Jan 31, 2018

Primavera Baseline used bu Acumen Fuse

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Hi, i'm struggling to undertsnad what baseline Acumen Fuse uses when we export from Primavera. I assumed it will be PROJECT BASELINE but even leaving that field set as Current Project it seems to be picking up a date (that isnt the current finish dat...

Jan 31, 2018

Constraints and lags together

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Hi I have an urgent problem as I am also new using this tool. I am working on a project and I hit myself of a problem.I have 3 milestones : MIL10, MIL11 and MIL12. they are linked sequentially and they also have a "finish on" constraint. But the pred...

Feb 1, 2018

P6 Activities with Steps Name / Status Export

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Hi I would like to export activities with steps including step names and status of steps in to excel spreadsheet. While Actiivty steps export provides infor about steps completed, in progress, etc. I am looking more on the lines of exporting activiti...

Feb 2, 2018