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Forum TopicHi I have a 78 page schedule and i was wondering if i could create an activity codes table of content with page number.Thanks if you could give me any help on this .I use P6 to create the schedules.
Apr 3, 2012
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Forum TopicHi guys i know i started to annoy everybody but sorry its me again and again well lets go for it i have a project and i have lets say 30 workers and i want to divide them in 5 teams every team is 6 workers like this team1 and team2 and team3 and so o...
Apr 3, 2012
Reduce budgeted manhours across the project
Forum TopicI need a global to reduce project budgeted manhours by 5% across my project.
Apr 4, 2012
Float Values Differ between Two Schedules with the only difference being some Asbuilt Activities Deleted
Forum TopicOn the project I am on, I can only show our Owner specific activities in the schedule as they will not approve a schedule with what my company considers a delay. With this, we escentially have two schedules for our project. Each month we update a sch...
Apr 4, 2012
Why critical activities not same longets path activities?
Forum TopicDear Planners, I have schedule 7000 activities our clints working on with critical activities 850 and longest path only 5 ... why they are not equal or close to geather? Thank you,
Apr 4, 2012
Why critical activities not same longets path activities?
Forum TopicDear Planners, I have schedule 7000 activities our clints working on with critical activities 850 and longest path only 5 ... why they are not equal or close to geather? Thank you,
Apr 4, 2012
Cost change when export / import layout
Forum TopicHello, I have exported my plan (as a save) and then when i import it back some of the budgeted cost figures are lost or changed. Nobody else has access to the plan. I cannot understand why this is happening, could there be a hidden formula or such th...
Apr 4, 2012
Importing from excel to P6
Forum TopicGood day all,I have an issue with import from excel to P6.Can I seek any of your expertise is advising me on how to create resource ids particular for a project, assign these to activities in MS excel and them import them in to P6.Cheers,Srinivasan
Apr 5, 2012
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Apr 5, 2012
P6 - (Activity % Complete) is not getting summarized as compare to other columns.
Forum TopicDear Expertise of P6. With reference to above mentioned subject i.e. P6 - (Activity % Complete) is not getting summarized as compare to other columns. your valuable inputs are required. Awaiting your usual positive feedback, please consider the snap ...
Apr 5, 2012
WBS / PERT add-on
Forum TopicIs there an add-on for P6 that will create WBS and PERT charts easily such as Critical Tools has built for MS Project.
Apr 5, 2012
Database Cofigurations
Forum TopicI am installing stand alone p6 on my laptop. Its 64 bit, AMD laptop.After installing P6 & have following error:Bad public user name or password. Database Server Error: Named Pipes Provider: Could not open a connection to SQL Server [67].Any suggestio...
Apr 6, 2012
Managing Your Projects with MSP
Forum TopicThis is Lesson 2.1 of MS Project Tutorial <<< Lesson here on youtube >>>
Apr 6, 2012
Substantial Completion Issues
Forum TopicOur project is actually delayed and it's due to the client. The client acknowledges the delay (for a lot of reasons), thus agreed to give the contractor a time extension (Time B). However, the developer where the client has a contract with to finish ...
Apr 7, 2012
High Ways Activities
Forum TopicDear All ,Could you please guide me for main Highway activities or sending me detailed sample for high way schedule Thanks,Amro
Apr 7, 2012
876 critical activities and 6 longest bath
Forum TopicDear Schedulers, I am reviewing schedul with 7000 activities and 876 critical activities and 6 longest bath. So, do you think those ok numbers I mean 876 critical and 6 longest bath for like this project and what is the avarge should be? Thank you ag...
Apr 8, 2012
Price/Unit does not recognize more than two decimals when exported and imported to another computer. Does anybody has any idea?
Forum TopicI have a schedule with more than 5000 resource assignments. The unit prices have about 8 decimals and it is working properly. So I understand Primavera actually detects all the decimals but is not able to illustrate more than two digits. However, whe...
Apr 8, 2012
Overtime input in Primavera P6
Forum Topichi ,I am new in Primavera P6, I am facing problem in allocating overtime to an activity.Suppose i have one activity which is of 5 days, and worker normal working is 8h/d , and one resource work on this activity whose rate is $100/h . So total cost of...
Apr 9, 2012
Differencies between Actual units in Activities sheet and tracking sheet (Resource Allocation)
Forum TopicDear planners,I am getting a problem regarding actual unit & budgeted unit.As it can be seen in below snapshot of activities sheet in primavera 6, the actual non labor unit is set to be 104650 which is same as actual cost since I assign 1$/hour for p...
Apr 9, 2012
Solving negative float in Primavera P6
Forum TopicI recently created a baseline schedule and now that I'm updating on a regular basis, I realize I'm getting huge negative float numbers (of up to 3 digits), especially on ongoing activities. Just would like to know the opinion of the experts that have...
Apr 9, 2012