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Partner needed

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Hi, I'm looking for a partner to discuss about planning. I'm an Asta user with the knowledge all the basic knowledge that a planner need to know such as progress line, baseline, resources, labour, s-curve, macro etc. I'm currently looking for someone...

Mar 21, 2011

Updating Physical % Complete with MS Excel & P6

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Hello, Summary: I am updating numerous traits of selected activities ( including physical % complete) for a project by exporting from P6 to Excel 2007 on Windows XP, updating the traits (including physical % complete), and then importing back into P6...

Mar 21, 2011

The Exact Definition of Open End Activity

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Dears:   A discussing was going on in regard of exact definition of open end activity. Some said that open end activity, the activity without successor and others said that open end activity which is belong and come under open end track or path even ...

Mar 22, 2011

How to add daily production rates column and quantity

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Hi all, So I'm working on a school project planning the construction of a bridge (already have the schedule set up). I got the production rates for each of the activities needed based on our District's database and I'm calculating the quatities for e...

Mar 22, 2011

Cannot change Original Duration in P6 2.0

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Hello Planners,my customer is facing a strange behavior in P6 V2.0:she's trying to change the duration of some "Task dependant" activities, no resource loaded; she enters a new figure in the Original Duration field of the Activity Detail, Status tab,...

Mar 22, 2011

Hong Kong Rugby 7s

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Hi Planners Anybody going to this years Hong Kong 7s? If so give me a message and we may make contact - I think they have a bar there. I am particularly looking forward to the womens final - its an international match so they will be swapping shirts....

Mar 23, 2011

Steel Structures

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Dear ALL, Any one  have a sample for steel strucure schedule

Mar 24, 2011

Tilos import

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Dear friends,What is the best and the easiest way to use Tilos (Import from PERT SCEDULE P3, MSP) or injecting the data directly in Tilos?

Mar 24, 2011

Importing and updating in P6

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Has anyone come across this problem with P6.7. Whenever I import a sub contractors plan and select update it induces loops. The loops are within a WBS level and appear to be random

Mar 24, 2011

HOW TO - Throw the progress in MS Project

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Hi...i have the following question...how i can in MS Project through its tools throw the progress of the activities in a specific date and see which of them reflect delay.  Note that some tasks have been given time to reflect progress ... which would...

Mar 24, 2011

Urgent help pls regarding re-scheduling (F9)

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Dear Forum could u pls help me ... its very utgent...   I was given some schedule prepared in P3 so when I reschedule it to some other dates (F9) early activities dont move they are frozen. Data date line keeps moving  but activities not... I even in...

Mar 25, 2011

How to print 2 windows on one page

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Hi Planners, Anyone know how to print Gantt Chart and Resource Graph on one page? Those twe windows can be display at the same time in screen but no matter what I tried, they can not be print to one page. Appreciate it that if someone can help on thi...

Nov 3, 2010

Exporting Resource Spread from MSP 2007 into Excel.

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Good Day all   I am used to working in Primavera and having the luxury of exporting resource spreads into Excel with ease.   How do I do the same using MS Projects 2007.   I want to view the following:   Column A = Task Name or Resource Name of Phase...

Nov 3, 2010

Recording Actual Units in P6

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Hi Guys   Is it possible to record actual unit rates in P6, lets take an example of concrete fora an activity Budgeted unit rate of concrete assigned in Baseline is 500 dollars per m3 and total quantity is 200 m3 then from site we got the report that...

Nov 3, 2010

SCHEDULE VARIANCE LABOUR UNITS

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dear all i have finished recording progress for the project. all the activities are now 100% complete but due to some updation problem i still have the difference between the actual labour units and budgeted units. all the activities are resource loa...

Nov 3, 2010

percent complete

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Is it possible to use weighting for rolled up performance % complete. I have noted that as long as the budgeted units >0 then performance % complete rolls up. However the performance %complete does not change whatever the number of units is e.g. if 2...

Nov 3, 2010

P6.1 global change

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Dear all, I established 4 user number columns and make the following global change: Column #1 Column #2 Column #3 = 1 x 2 Column #4 = 3 / 80 But after I run global change columns #3 & 4 still empty and did not include the new values as a result of ab...

Nov 3, 2010