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Calendar Question - Productive Time Per day

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Hi,We have a planned shutdown in 2018 and our max amount of resources will be ~50.  We will have a day and night shift but there will be a different amount of direct labour per shift.  The ratio maybe 30 direct on days and 20 on nights.  I will be as...

Mar 18, 2016

Resource Leveling In P6

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Good day for all,i was making a time schedule for a project respecting the resouces limitation using P6, after adding relations and assign resources i used Resource leveling tool in p6 to avoid resource over-allocation and get a real applicable time ...

Mar 20, 2016

Resource usage profile

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Hi all,I have few activities in the program with similar resource, but in different time period.When i tried the resource usage profile, it shows the units/cost distribution for the overall time period.Is it possible to see the unit/cost distribution...

Mar 20, 2016

Display the Percentage Progress of WBS

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Dear all,I'm new to this site. So this topic might have discussed before. I want to display the percentage progress of the WBS in "Activities tab" in P6. Thanks in advance. 

Mar 20, 2016

Line of Balance

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Dear, Could I just print the line of balance graph instead of print the Gannt Chart together with the line of balance?   Regards, Gary Lo

Mar 20, 2016

How to Set Revised Baseline with Actual Progress ?

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Dear all,I'm new to this Site. So this topic might have already discussed before. My management wants to set up a recovery program for the Project after couple of months. But after I "Restore", "Manage" and "Assign" the program, the new dates of my B...

Mar 20, 2016

Budgeted Total Cost not updating as the Budgeted Labour Units changes

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I'm stumped as to why P6 (version 8.2) is not automatically updating Budgeted Total Cost in response to changes in Budgeted Labour Units.I noticed the problem upon examining the results of some interim programming changes in the schedule.  Below is a...

Mar 20, 2016

Improving the Governance of Projects, Programs and Portfolios.

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A short while ago I posted a blog that was highly critical of the new ‘Practice Guide for the Governance of Portfolios, Programs, and Projects’.  The core of my criticism was the confusion of management and governance (and PMI’s focus on improving ma...

Mar 21, 2016

How to set delivery lead time in gantt

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Hi, Good day to all.In scheduling, when I have a scenario whereby I purchase an equipment from vendor, and need to wait for vendor to deliver it, should this wait time be set as a task with the duration being the same as the delivery time, or should ...

Mar 22, 2016

Renumber Activity IDs - Option Grayed Out

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Hi Forum, first post here from a new-ish Primavera user !I'm using P6 Professional release 8.3.5. User rights are 'power/key user'I have a project created myself, unfortunately the Activity ID's are a mess (due to importing activities from other area...

Mar 22, 2016

How to jump to a date in P6

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Hi everyone,We know there is a tab in MSP to jump to a date or activity. Do we have the same in P6 as well? appreciated your responses in advance.

Mar 23, 2016

Show selected activities with all relationships

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Hi all,Does anyone know how can we show a range of selested activities and their relatioships (Predec and Succ) in Gant Chart in P6. I mean just showing selected activities and their relationship in Gant Chart. I know with codes we can do that but it...

Mar 23, 2016

Show selected activities with all relationships

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Hi all,Does anyone know how can we show a range of selested activities and their relatioships (Predec and Succ) in Gant Chart in P6. I mean just showing selected activities and their relationship in Gant Chart. I know with codes we can do that but it...

Mar 23, 2016

How to jump to a date in P6

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Hi everyone,We know there is a tab in MSP to jump to a date or activity. Do we have the same in P6 as well? appreciated your responses in advance.

Mar 23, 2016

Changing the Version Number of a Primavera P6 XER File

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I know this may be a bit of old news, but it still keeps coming up. Here's how to change the version number of a Primavera P6 XER file if you're having trouble importing it http://ow.ly/ZQSfI I hope this helps!

Mar 23, 2016

Career

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Dec 7, 2015

Labor units

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Hi, When I'm assigning resources on activities the entrie unit is appearing on the first day itself. I mean an activity with 10 days duration when assignning 1000 labor units it should equally distribute during the working days. If it is seven day wo...

Dec 7, 2015

Labor units

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Hi, When I'm assigning resources on activities the entrie unit is appearing on the first day itself. I mean an activity with 10 days duration when assignning 1000 labor units it should equally distribute during the working days. If it is seven day wo...

Dec 7, 2015

Subcontractors as resource

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Please help... So I went ahead and set up all of my activities with dates, predecessors, successors etc for a project which is a construction contract where I have some of the work that is self performed, some where I have vendors providing materials...

Dec 7, 2015