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ask for some books

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Hi Actually,I found these books very practical and impressive, but in my country i can not reach them. If any body have these please send them to my email address below:   Links:   Thank you for your concideration  

Jan 7, 2014

Renaming/Changing Resource ID

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Hi All, I am trying to find a faster way to change/rename exsisting resource id's (about 500). I have tried import/export but that does not seem to change the resource id. And it seems that this cannot be done by global change either. Any assitance w...

Jan 7, 2014

User-defined Fields

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Hi,A question about user-defined fields.I've created a number of UDF's, some of them being of the Integer or Number type.How do I prevent these types from summarizing on parent/WBS-level above, e.g. if writing "2" for one activity and "7" for another...

Jan 7, 2014

PMSDK-Resource Baseline Information

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Hi All, Anyone knows if there is any way to call resource "baseline" information (like baseline budget and baseline time distributed data) by PMSDK? Regards,manochehr 

Jan 8, 2014

Baseline

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Hi everyone! What happens when you take a snapshot (baseline) of current update but the dates differ when you assign it as the primary baseline. The dates are different when you add BL1 start and finish column for comparison. Has anyone experienced t...

Jan 8, 2014

missing data while exporting-importing

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Dear all,During either the export or import process from P6 in xer file, a substantial amount of the resources data (MHRS) is lost.That happens even when I reimport the file to my database.When I copy – paste the schedule everything is ok. I assume t...

Jan 8, 2014

The finish date of my project is off by a few days.

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Hello, Im doing a schedule for school where a project started on June 25, 2012. The project duration is 584 calendar days from the start date, which the finish date will be January 29, 2014.  I created a new calendar to represent "calendar days" mean...

Jan 9, 2014

Question on Lag

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What is the implication of using both positive and nagative lags on a programme and what are the benefits?

Jan 9, 2014

Use Performance factor to calculate Hours to Spread in Histogram

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Hello,I am trying to incorporate a productivity factor to my hours to finish the project to show an accurate spread of hours/resources needed in Histograms.  However i don't want to change my remaining to earn hours (for S-Curves).  Ideally i would l...

Jan 9, 2014

Schedule Logic

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All,I am reviewing a P6 schedule submitted by a Subcontractor, the schedule has;6,793 total activities which includes;512 date constraints463 activities without predecessors126 activities without successors1 activity on the Longest PathIn the Contrac...

Jan 10, 2014

Two Ambitious Goals for Your PMO in 2014

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At Ten Six, we see a couple of themes and goals for this year which include raising the strategic profile of the PMO and improving its approach to organizational skill development. Here we take a look at both of these goals. http://ow.ly/sspOI

Jan 10, 2014

Advance Payment

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I have a Client and a Contractor both difficult to manage both don't adhere too much to the contract clauses due to some  kind of friendship . My problem is the advance payment , the contractor included it  on his baseline schedule  on the critical p...

Jan 10, 2014

Budget Cost Loaded

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Dear Planners,I assigned resourses to the activities, some of the assigned resources I loaded with Budget Cost, but after I changed the duration of those activities and the activity calendar, I detected that some of the assigned resources are not loa...

Jan 10, 2014

View of All Costs by Cost Account

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Hello Planners,Is there a view in P6, that allows me to view ALL costs, grouped as per the 'cost account' hierarchy?E.g. I have some activities cost loaded with resources, and other activities cost loaded with expenses. Some activities are loaded wit...

Jan 13, 2014

Graphical Representations of Gantt Charts and Linear Diagrams

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My appologies for posting off topic.I pasted the conversation regarding colors and paterns in this post in order to bring the subject "up to speed".Bogdan's Initial post:I saw in one of the Spider Team publications ("Tools and Techniques of Project a...

Jan 13, 2014

What is the best approach to update multiple project files in P6?

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Happy New Year to All.   I have inherited a set of 4 project schedule files to update in P6, all of them belonging to the same project. Also, all of them are resource loaded (resources have been assigned to level of effort type of activities, not at ...

Jan 13, 2014

activity network

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dear allIn activity network, can we re-organise the activities as per bar chart according to timescale 

Jan 13, 2014