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How to lock the total budget cost in P6 V7

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I have recently changed from P3 to P6, and I am struggling through my first schedule. I setup my actvities and codes. Now I am inputing my recources and budget. But everytime I check out the project or make changes to the duration the budget goes to ...

Aug 10, 2015

If we can do Time Scale Change - Positive and Negative

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Hello Everyone,Just a doubt about if we can show the time scale to positive and negative.Like the award )Project award date would be 0 anything happening after the project award date would be positive dates like (Week) 1 ,2 3. How can we show in the ...

Aug 11, 2015

Changing Resource Calendars and Budgeted Units

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Hi Everyone… Could you help me with the following problem After allocating a Resource to an Activity(Task Dependent), when i change my Resource Calendar, Budgeted Units are not changing accordingly.For example, I’ve a Resource(with 8Hr Resource Calen...

Aug 11, 2015

Same Resources for different Projects

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Hi everyone....Is it a good practice to use the same resources in multiple projects?? If it's okay, then wouldn't the parameters(eg: Resource Calendars,Unit Rates etc.) assigned to resources in a previous project change when i modify the parameters o...

Aug 11, 2015

Level Of Effort Spurious Actuals ?

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Can anyone shed some light on why occasionaly and randmly all my summary level of effort tasks show an actual start and an actual finish when they have no physical progress  recorded and none of the tasks they are spanning have actuals?  They all hav...

Aug 11, 2015

Can't get rid of Line of Balance when trying to print

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Hello everyone, newbie in planning here.I am trying to print off a project.However when I try to print the Line of Balance view is still visible even though I pressed the "hide" button in format.Does anyone have any suggestions of how I can get rid o...

Aug 12, 2015

Indent by Resource type in activity window

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Hi every one, I would like to know if is possible to make a layout in activities window in P6 summarizing by resource type, I was trying to do that, but when i organize grouping by resource, it showme the resources assigned to the activity on the agr...

Aug 14, 2015

How to determine Total Float Calculation for Critcal Path

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Hi GuysI am reviewing a contractor P6 programme that has 0 Total Float as it is due to finish before the 'Must Finish By' date. It is therefore showing no Critical Path when scheduled using the Default setting 'Total Float less than 0d'. Can anyone a...

Aug 16, 2015

How to determine Total Float Calculation for Critcal Path

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Hi GuysI am reviewing a contractor P6 programme that has 0 Total Float as it is due to finish before the 'Must Finish By' date. It is therefore showing no Critical Path when scheduled using the Default setting 'Total Float less than 0d'. Can anyone a...

Aug 16, 2015

Saving Resource Histograms

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Please let me know if there is any way to retrieve a stacked histogram. For instance, for Project 1 i created a stacked histogram and afterwards a stacked histogram was made for project 2.Now, can i retrieve the stacked histogram i made for project 1...

Aug 16, 2015

Exception EAccessViolation in module PM.exe at 0048C5DF

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Hi, could anyone please help me in rectifying this error : "Exception EAccessViolation in module PM.exe at 0048C5DF. Access Violation at address 0088C5DF in module 'PM.exe'. Read of address 00000391."  

Aug 17, 2015

Project Calendar not showing in Default calendar Selection Pane

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Hi, I have a project which I created 2 project level calendars for, but even after summarising the project I can't select either calendar to set it as the "Default Project Calendar".When I go to set the Default calendar it doesnt show any of the proj...

Aug 17, 2015

Project Calendar not showing in Default calendar Selection Pane

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Hi, I have a project which I created 2 project level calendars for, but even after summarising the project I can't select either calendar to set it as the "Default Project Calendar".When I go to set the Default calendar it doesnt show any of the proj...

Aug 17, 2015

Formula Issues

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Good afternoon,I have just started using ASTA.1. The  problem is I have put a formula in a column and whenever I open the programme it is comes up as incorrect, I have to then proceed to change a " back to ' to make the formula correct. I have to do ...

Aug 17, 2015

P6 Licensing question

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My company currently has concurrent Licensing of P6 for for their users and I was wondering if I were to install a standalone license on my machine would that require us purchase an additional license?  What I am going to be doing is accessing the P6...

Aug 18, 2015

NOTPRMUSER displaying in P6

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Getting a login of NOTPRMUSER for certain projects.  After reading an article it says this is a hidden generic Oracle account that is used if data is updated directly to the P6 Database in most cases instead of through a P6 module. Has anyone seen th...

Aug 19, 2015

Resource Assignment

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Hello, All Please help me with my below query: In User preference my time units for time is set in days. Activity A is having original duration of 28 days. This activity requires 24 technician perday for 28 days.  So when i assign the technicain reso...

Aug 19, 2015

Primavera P6 Portfolios

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Here's how to create and utilize user defined project portfolios in Primavera P6 http://ow.ly/R5Lad

Aug 19, 2015