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User defined field name changed

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I'm working for a chemical company in Germany with different site locations. We all use Primavera P6 to plan our turnarounds.A strange thing happened yesterday. Suddenly we noticed after logging in that a user defined field which we have created at t...

Jan 6, 2017

Crew Size and composition

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             First of all, thanks to all the contributors who have provided their invaulable ideas and experience. My one main concern while deleoping the schedule is the resource loadng. The one piece of information I am falling short is the crew si...

Jan 7, 2017

Time distributed costs to Excel

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HiI want to export time distributed costs to Excel to include resource and expenses (which are loaded to milestones). There are reports in P6 that will do the resource costs but not the expenses. I want to the costs to be time distributed by financia...

Jan 9, 2017

Total Manpower

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Dear All,, I got a project that will complete within 2-1/2 yrs with estimted manhour of 175,000 Hours, I drafted a schedule that loaded with manpower. Expert advise how much direct workers required to complete the work activity. Thanks a lot.RegardsR...

Jan 9, 2017

Resource Id's not importing from SubContractor Schedule

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Hi,I am importing an updated schedule into our EPS and since the last update, I am not getting any Resource Id's. Budgeted Hours are fine, just no res. id's.Always importing as a new project, and previously did not have this issue. Contractor has pro...

Jan 12, 2017

Suggest tablet to use Primavera P6 Professional

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Hi All,I'm planning to buy a new tablet, as i travel alot, i want to buy a tablet which can access p6 professional compactably.Kindly suggest performing tablet for P6 on budget.

Jan 13, 2017

Adding to activity duration vs Lag

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What is the correct or preferred way to do this and why. Say you have a concrete activity that will require 4 days to complete and then 7 days to cure out before you can erect steel. Do you create an 11 day activity (4 days + 7 days) with relationshi...

Jan 13, 2017

Creating a non splitable task

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I have a situation where I have a task of 25 days duration that cannot be split and a shutdown period of one month. What I'd like to be able to setup within Project 2013 is the 25 day task so that it ends no later than the start of the shutdown perio...

Jan 16, 2017

Recovery Schedule

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I was requested from the consultant to make a recovery schedule on my latest updated , it show delay 42 days on the end of the project .what should I do ?

Jan 16, 2017

Event Code: AVAAO-3660-0

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While importing an xer file an event code was displayed (AVAAO-3660-0) and I was unable to complete the import.  When I ran the exception report the message stated that it was "Access violation at address 00B09AOE in module 'PM.exe'"  what do I need ...

Jan 17, 2017

PLEASE HELP .. I opened too many projects and cant access my P6

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Hi Everyone, if anyone knows a way out of this I would highly appreciate it.I wanted to backup my projects (over 100 projects) so I can transfer these projects to another computer with an higher version of P6, so I tried opening like 15 of them to ex...

Jan 18, 2017