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Cost & Budget Loading

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Edited after more research:My EPC project includes materials, engineered equipment, subcontracts, constructions equipment, indirect and dirct labor. I would like to try the cost / budget loading and earned value functions of P6. It seems that the com...

May 7, 2020

Purpose of Retired activities in Schedule

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Hi Expats,In one of my UK clients schedule, they advised  to retire completed activites and non performing activites in the schedule. and my collegues recommended to change the duration of non performed activities duration to 1D in the schedule to av...

May 11, 2020

Construction Planner Survey

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Hi All, I am doing some research for a MSc in Construction Project Management, looking for some feedback from construction planners in industry. The aims of the research is to investigate the practical application of Planning and Scheduling in the co...

May 14, 2020

Expanding Task Usage View

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Hi,Just wondering if there is a simple way to expand each task on the Task Usage View so that it shows individual resources against the task rather than the total for all resources?In the example below, I have manually expanded task 213 to show the t...

May 14, 2020

P6 Filter

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I'm hoping someone can help me.  I need to filter my P6 schedule for a 2 week look ahead HOWEVER the PM is looking to also see all milestones - not just the ones within that 2 week period. Can anyone help?

May 14, 2020

Global Change - Status Indicator for expiry date alerts

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hiwandering if someone can please help me with thisi have created a User Defined Field (UDF) named Insurance Expiry which i have allocated this with a date field so i can track when a resources liabilty insurance expires. i have also created a UDF ca...

May 15, 2020

Covid-19 Production assessments

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Is there a quick process of applying a reduced productivity to remaining activities on a programme to assess the impact of Covid-19? This is as a result of a reduced permitted workforce on site e.g. 66% efficiency v planned. Can this be done in a new...

May 15, 2020

Urgent : Delay Days

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Please explain if a project has Cost Variance of 6.93% and Baseline Duration of 486 days how can we calculate the Delay days based on Early % Variance.Can somebody explainIf Planned 16.14%   Actual    9.21%  Cost Variance - 6.93%

May 18, 2020

Showing productivity changes with different Resource Calendars

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Hi everyone, I am kindly asking for help about following problem.I need to show lower productivity per several resources in my schedule in winter period. Those resources are commodities.Other resources (manpower and equipment) as well as activities s...

May 18, 2020

Calendar Days do not match Calendar Hours?

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Hi, I have a calendar running 10 hours per day, 5 days per week. It is assigned as the Activity default calendar. When I create a new activity with a duration of 3 days and then change my User Preference to show Duration in Hours, the hours are only ...

May 19, 2020

Main project management software features

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Dear Mr./Ms,I'm an undergraduate student of the Project Management course within the Management Engineering Program of the University of Palermo, and I am currently developing my Master Degree thesis. In this regard, the purpose of my thesis is to fi...

May 19, 2020

Free/Cheap P6 Comparison Tools

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Hi There,I'm wondering what's available as far as free/cheap P6 comparison reports. I developed a free P6 comparison report (jobsessions.com/tool/compare) that compares the changes between two files and I'm wondering what else is out there that shows...

May 22, 2020

Primavera not responding

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Hello all!Primavera client after log in is not appearing and not responding. Only icon stucks taskbar and not responds. This appears only with one account. bThe other accounts are working without problem. I need your help.

May 22, 2020

Wrong project name in Print preview

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Hi, am trying to print out a project in P6, when i do a print preview, it shows another projects name from the Enterprize , when i go through the project information it has the right name on. How to i change this, i need to present the project to sta...

May 23, 2020

Overall vs Duration on Table Definition Dialog Box

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I have created a column for Planned Percent Complete(PPC). When I opened the Table Definition Dialogue Box under Measure of Progress I can choose on drop down following options;DurationOverallCostI'd like to know the difference when reporting progres...

May 28, 2020

Converting MSP TO P6 with Activity Relationship

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Hi Expats, I'm trying to convert one of my project from MSP to P6 due to client demand, but afted converted the file, I can't to see atcitivty relationship.Is any way convert MSP to P6 with relationship and Activity CodeThanks,

May 29, 2020

Resource / Cost Loading Questions

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Hello I have two issues:1. When exporting an Excel to add resources and costs - I need to add add multiple resources or cost values for one activity - I cant get a worksheet that gives me a row per resource. Is this possible?2. Where I have resources...

Jun 2, 2020

WBS description into Activity Description- Global change

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Hi,I am generating a engineering schedule. Our Client has asked to present schedule that it lists the control gates under each WBS.I have listed the Deliverables at WBS level and would like to have the WBS name concatnated with the Activity Descripti...

Jun 5, 2020