Earned Schedule with P6
Forum TopicHouse,I'll like to know if anyone using the P6 has applied the principles of Earned Schedule especciall Spi(t). I will appreciate if I could be guide through please. Thanks
Jul 24, 2019
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Local resources limit (for each project)
Forum TopicHi guys,I'm having several resources that are being used in different projects (same resource ID). Is is possible in P6 to set different limits on same resource for each project?
Jul 25, 2019
Page Setup, Paper Size showing only 2 options
Forum TopicDear All,I have bought a new laptop and installed the latest version P6 18.8.In Page setup, i want to save Schedule in A3 Size but there are only 2 options available (A4 and Letter).
Jul 27, 2019
Project Scheduler - Uploading of Actuals Costs into PS8
Forum TopicHi all,We have just migrated to SAP Business By Design, and I am struggling to download Actuals Labour sts and Material/Expense Costs into PS8. Im currently doing this manually by hand, and its not a small task, trust me.We used to do this in the old...
Jul 28, 2019
Activity cost as a percentage of the Project Budget Cost
Forum TopicHi guys, I would like to express an activity cost as a percentage of the project budget cost. For example Project A - Total Cost is $5000Project A has numerous activities and I would like a Column that expresses the Cost of the Activities as a percen...
Jul 29, 2019
Engineering Sequencing
Forum TopicI am trying to schedule an EPC project but I am unsure of the logic that is incorpoarted in each discipline: Process, Mechanincal, Structure/Civil, instrumentation, Electrical, and Piping. Also, how are disciplines connected to one another? If anyone...
Jul 29, 2019
Project Summary Task Displaying Inaccurate Total Slack
Forum TopicRecently my project schedule started displaying the wrong total slack number. In the screenshot below it should display -47 not -33. I am using the same calendar throughout the project. Please advise![[wysiwyg_imageupload:6903:]]
Jul 30, 2019
How to Password Protect .XER file??
Forum TopicFirstly, yes I searched for my question/answer and found nothing useful. I'm working with... an "interesting" client to say the least. PDF prints of my schedule are not sufficient, and they require the .xer file that I am working with. I absolutely ...
Aug 1, 2019
Actual Finish Dates On Team Member
Forum TopicWithout going into the background, when using Team Member, our Task Owners often need to update their tasks on a Wednesday and they need to mark a task as finished and give it an actual finish date of Thursday or Friday, one or two days in the future...
Aug 2, 2019
Planning Level
Forum TopicHi everybody,I have always a real trouble to define the Level of my planning or to discuss a plannig with our contractor, sometimes the planning that I have to discuss for me is a L4 and for the contractor is a L3, do you have an answer ?
Jun 21, 2020
Task Name / Date used in a movie column
Forum TopicHi,I'm managing several project schedules all of which have the milestone task GoLive. I want to be able to capture the date into a movie date column I've created. Is there a way to do this via a formula or other method?Many thanks for your help. ---...
Jun 24, 2020
EOT - Covid 19
Forum TopicGood Afternoon Respected Planners, I am working on EPC Project guided by FIDIC form of contract Unlike NEC in FIDIC programmes cannot be rejected by client but there is a mechanism for acknowledging the programme on receipt from contractor every mont...
Jun 24, 2020
error - user is logged on
Forum TopicI am using a standalone P6 v16.2 and cannot get logged on after my computer crashed. I keep getting error message that 'user is logged on'.Any advice on how to clear this?
Jun 25, 2020
Activity ID in Project Online
Forum TopicHi,We are developing a solution when enterprise schedules could be reported via backend from Primavera and Project Online (Enterprise Master Schedule). Our solution already works with P6 schedules and we need to add all schedules from Project Online....
Jun 26, 2020
Supplier masking Schedule performance and delays during Covid-19 window and Rebaselining in P6 in a COVID Period
Forum TopicHi All (and especially Zoltan! Thanks for your help in the past!) We were going through a schedule rebaseline with the customer and also including suppliers who were delivering late to key milestones and then COVID-19 hit. We are still progressing wi...
Jun 27, 2020
WBS Name Maximum Characters
Forum TopicHi All,When try to import a P6 XML file, show up an error window saying "Valvue too large for cloumn WBS_Name (actuall:116, maximum :100)", Any advice on how to solve it or where can adjust my WBS name Maximum Characters. thanks and regards
Jun 28, 2020
Revised Program of Work
Forum TopicGood Day,If i want to submit a revised program of work for a counstruction project witch is four months to finish, do i have to submit the remaining activities only or the full program??regards,
Jul 1, 2020
Transferring P6 8.4 standalone to new pc
Forum TopicAny tips on how I transfer P6 software running under windows 7 to a PC under windows 10? Thanks
Jul 4, 2020
Imported XER showing as 4 separate items in the EPS
Forum TopicAfternoon all,I've been sent an XER file of a single plan, yet once the import is complete it's showing as 4 separate items in the enterprise screen. Open one and they all open, try to delete one and all go. It's behaving as one but appearing as 4....
Jul 6, 2020