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About P6

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Hi! Friends, i am working as planner from last 10years- My name is Sridhar. Guies i want to learn P6, all these years i am useing P3 and i am more conversent with P3. i got trannied in P6, but it is on fast rack process nearly one and year back, and ...

Feb 18, 2011

What is the need to develop planning schedule for power plant (550

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Hi friends          I am in steel plant engineering and want to changeove to power plant engineering.Can any one give idea from where i have to start for power plant planning. what are basic rule for planning for power plant ? what are the major acti...

Feb 18, 2011

quantities Units Showing in profile

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Dear All, If Quantities are loaded in base line prepared by P6 how to show these quantities enclosed with their units ( like m3, m2,ton ) not in hours or days via  profile?   Thanks

Mar 9, 2011

P6V7 levels resource actual units

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Hello planners, on Activity A, Original Duration 5 days, Resource 1 is working 8 hour/day Activity Actual Start is Monday and Actual Duration 2 days Update Progress on Tuesday night shows Resource 1 Actual Units = 16h, 8 on Monday and 8 on Tuesday On...

Mar 9, 2011

25% PFS and 10% BFS Schedule templates

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I was wondering if there is anybody out there that has got standard templates for a 25% Pre-Feasibility Study and a 10% Bankable Feasibility Study? We are setting up a new project in South Africa and I need to train a junior Planner but do not have a...

Mar 10, 2011

Usage of SDK

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Dear All, Please guide me on this Topic. I have still not used SDK feature for any of my projects till now. but i see that there may be many benefits of having installed it,Which i am not aware.

Mar 10, 2011

Extension of Time Documents

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Dear Friends I am Working on a Palace Project , our project end date was 31 mar 2011 , we submit several impacted schedule whenever we recieve changes and new design , as per our impacted schedule the end date was in novemeber 2011 for the only the r...

Mar 10, 2011

Estimate Weightage not updating

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Dear All, can anybody please address this issue... I had to assign the est weights to all the activites so i exported the project with all the activites along with the est weight column.I assigned the est weights to all the activities as required and...

Mar 10, 2011

Progress Spotlight Colour

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Hi guys, I've been asked how you can change the colour of the spotlight from yellow to something more desirable to the client (I know, on a list of priorities...) With all the formatting options I would be surprised if this is not possible but cannot...

Mar 10, 2011

Script to create Calendar

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Dear all I have to create a calendar over several years with for example only Tuesday working day. Is there any automatic procedure (script) that can be used? thanks for your help L

Mar 11, 2011

Updating With Resource-Costs for Corps

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I have a P6v7 schedule created with the cost for each activity as a resource (rather than Expense, so that it can be used to create an SDEF for QCS input). The 'calculate costs' and 'auto compute' ticky-boxes are ticked. When I update the activity pe...

Mar 11, 2011

Malaysia’s Guild Interest Group Meeting, Kuala Lumpur

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Good day everybody....Hope everything in good shape on your side. As you may know we are planning a small Teh Tarik meeting for us planners in Malaysia to say hello, network and meet up.Date: March 19 2011, at 4:00pm (Saturday)Venue: Old Town Kopitia...

Mar 11, 2011

Error message backing up database

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Cannot get database to backup. Went to Programs/Orarcle Database 10g Express Edition/Backup Database and get the following error message:   Backup of database failed Unknown log mode: SP2-0640: Log file is at SP2-0640 Can someone give direction on ho...

Mar 11, 2011

Rolling Wave Planning

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We are on a mission to discover the origins of Rolling Wave planning – where did the idea come from?  Who used it first??  Is it an EV concept borrowed by schedulers or the other way round???    Any ideas or authenticated sources would be appreciated...

Mar 11, 2011

Squeezing of Duration

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I am now facing a problem in squeezing my project. My programe have over 4000 thousand activities and some activities have over 10 predecessors or successors. The programme have multiple critical paths. There are so many combination in squeezing the ...

Mar 12, 2011