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Material Resources Resetting to zero

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I have just started on a project in Finland where we are cost loading the schedule.I am working with P6 Professional R8.2 Release 8.2.1 The problem we are having is that after loading all the costs, as soon as we try to update progress on an activity...

Jul 30, 2013

Level of Effort Activities

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Hi All, It seems if I assign roles to a level of effort activity before I schedule it so the activity is of the correct duration, the distribution of the role will remain on the initial duration of the activity even after I schedule. Can anyone verif...

Jul 31, 2013

want to extract Activity Usage Spreadsheet on desired WBS

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hi to all,i am searching a way to extract Activity Usage Spreadsheet from P6 to Excel for desired WBS.i have loaded cost on Engineering, Procurement & Construction Phases & my Performance Percentage Complete is 12.72%. here i want to see Planned & Ac...

Jul 31, 2013

EOT for a Particular Section of the Road

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Dear All,I have a problem related to an EOT Claim. Our project is a 10 Km long Highway & there are no sectional project completion dates as per contract.Currently, work is in progress but behind the schedule. Unfortunately, at the very end sections o...

Aug 1, 2013

Unable to edit Header & Footer in Primavera P6 PPM R8.2 Layouts

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hi to all experts, after migrated form Primavera v 6.7 to 8.2 i am problem with Header & Footer.I am unable to edit & modify anything there. Do anyone know solution of this problem? , please share with me. thanks in advance....... 

Aug 3, 2013

Deferred Commencement and Priliminary clearance

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 Hi all,I have two small issues with  logical relationships, I hope you will get me out of this. The situation is as follows: I issue (Priliminary Clearance):The Project is a 80 Km Highway.I have two activities :A1) Clearing and Grubbing; andA2) Cons...

Aug 4, 2013

Longest Path based on activity ID

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I was wondering if there is an easy way to create a filter for the longest path leading to a certain activity which is not actually on the longest path. I know it can be done by adding an artificial activity or lag which exceeds the current longest p...

Aug 5, 2013

Primary Resource

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Dear Planners,In my schedule, I have two resources assigned to specific activity, two of them I do not have any price and the other one has the price according to the BOQ. I tried to assign the priced one as primary resource but the program said that...

Aug 5, 2013

Next step after preparing fragnet

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Dear All This is my first time time to work on EOT, but i have been guided through all your convesations in this forum and it was extremely helpful, i started and i reach this stage shown below and in P6 now i have these: 1- fragnet linked to the lat...

Aug 6, 2013

Query on Primavera Software

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Dear Friends, Kindly answer my question.   I have developed the baseline schedule, assigned and maintained the baseline and put a constraint to finish on 14thFebruary 2014. Then I have created the Financial period values starting from Wk-16 of 2013 t...

Aug 6, 2013

P6.1 Reporting - Budgeted Monthly Cost

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Dear Planet, How to produce a report where the total budgeted cost is distributed monthly in P6.1? I am only able to produce a report where the activity budgeted cost shows on the first month and not distributed for the whole period :(  e.g.         ...

Aug 7, 2013

Primavera P6 EPPM Progress Spotlight Explained

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Sometimes it’s the little things that can really differentiate a product from its competitors. One feature I really find invaluable and unique to Primavera P6 is the Progress Spotlight. Here's how it works http://ow.ly/nHUBh Emily

Aug 7, 2013

Primavera P6.7 Baseline Comparison Problems

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Good day Planners & The Like;I have a small problem, i am hoping its really that small.. well here it goes.I have made a Baseline Schedule Schedule out from our very own initial schedule. and so it goes.. after a few months of updating and revisions ...

Aug 9, 2013

NEC3 ECSC OPTION B COMPENSATION EVENT HELP!

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HI. Need help. PM has rejected the below compensation events! Do i have a case if i take it to an adjudicator/court? Compensation Event #1Clause: 60.1The following are compensation events. (1) The Project Manager gives an instruction changing the Wor...

Aug 9, 2013

Statistics or Project Success studies

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All,I am looking for any studies or whitepapers that have been conducted on;1) Project Startups - The increased chance of project success if the planning and initial setup is done thoroughly2) Project Execution - The lowered risk of project failure t...

Aug 13, 2013

Preparing an EOT Claim

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Dear All,I am working for a contracting company which is undertaking a "Warehouse Building Project". There are 2 contractual milestones, Milestone-1 to finish one warehouse by the end of 10 months and Milestone-2 to finish the balance of the warehous...

Aug 13, 2013