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Time Unit --- HELP

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Planners, When I run the schedule, all activities are showing time for example: 27-Dec-2013 06:00Am to 29-Dec-2013 07:00Am. Whereas I have set 11hours work per day. I have even checked my user preferences, everything seems okay but this time i am una...

Dec 25, 2013

Values Stacked Histogram Wrong

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Hi all,Hope someone can get me out of my infinite loop I'm stuck in (i.e looking at the screen, be angry that P6 is not doing what it supposed to do, looking at the screen, etc. etc) When I look at the graph in the resource usage profile for a partic...

Dec 26, 2013

Planning Engineer Salary- Check if your salary is fair or not

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Hi all,I have prepared a good database for Planning Engineers salaries as per years of experience and country. So far about 300 planning engineer added their salaries throughout the salary survey.I invite you all to see what is the average planning e...

Dec 27, 2013

Admin Categories

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Good Day Everyone,I am new here and i can only say this is the best forum i have seen for a while.Can any one please explain the effects of the : Baseline type and Unit of Measure tabs in the Admin Categories and which one is ideal for Proper plannin...

Dec 29, 2013

Procurement Problem

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Dear Planners,I am establishing an EPC Schedule for a water supply project contains 81 Km pipeline and three tanks. For the tanks there are a lot of mechnical items to be procured, what is the best way to include those items in the schedule? I am thi...

Dec 29, 2013

Step by Step Technique

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Hello Everybody hope u r fine & enjoying life.Hi I have experience in Primavera P6 & I prepared different types of schedule like basic Plan & update actual after set the baseline & i can prepared the Resourse histrogram & also load the Resourse on sc...

Dec 30, 2013

The 1-2-3 of Primavera P6 Baselines

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Here's a blog explaining the primary, secondary and tertiary baselines and how they work. You can read it here http://ow.ly/scW0X

Jan 2, 2014

Guild of Project Controls Constitution

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BACKGROUNDThe Guild of Project Controls is an initiative founded by the website Planning Planet.  For the foreseeable future the Guild will form part of the Planning Planet website until it is deemed a requirement for the Guild to have its’ own inter...

Jan 3, 2014

P6 Enterprise in Windows 8?

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Dear all,I'm planning to procure a laptop but not sure whether P6 Enterprise could be loaded in Windows 8 so I dropped by to ask if it's ok? Need your advise..Thanks ahead! Adelfa

Jan 4, 2014

Cost Loading Activities

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Hi Planners,Just wondering if someone can help me cost load a 'warehouse rental' activity in my P6 programme.I've got a 'Level of Effort' activity which reflects the duration of warehouse rental requred. I've set the duration type to 'Fixed Units/Tim...

Jan 6, 2014

Program planning setup

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Dear forum members,I recently got assigned the task of program management for one of our business sectors.What is required of me is firstly to have a complete overview of what was done, when and where. And this is also where I am stuck. It is safe to...

Jan 6, 2014

Schedule % Complete Dieffrences

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Dear P6 experts,Acttualy, our consultant dont get the same schedule % complete on his programme,We took an example for one WBS level, activities have the same activity % complete, same expenses, but we don't get the same schedule % complete on the WB...

Jan 6, 2014

Leveling resources: "Activities that cannot be leveled". Why

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Hi. I'm doing a feasability analysis for an early fase project. I'm trying to build different scenarios with respects to resources and time. I have around 100 activites. I've set Original Duration and Budgeted Labour units. When i use Shift+F9 i stil...

Jan 6, 2014

Driving Predecessor(s) Report

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Is there a report in P6 that will identify which predecessors are driving the successor activities?  Can't seem to find it in the "built in" reports.

Jan 6, 2014

Resource Usage Spreadsheet

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Hi everyone, My Resource Usage Spreadsheet is not editable, it inactive! The schedule havent updated yet, even i have got this issue for a new created schedule, any advise is appreciated.   Nikan.

Jan 7, 2014