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It has been an interesting week for my family.

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Hi AllThis week has been interesting:My grandson has a job as a deck hand on a small drift trawler in the North sea. On Tuesday it sprung a leak and he had to keep bailing while the skipper rushed to the beach.On Thursday my grand daughter was accept...

Aug 29, 2015

Filter projects in EPS by milestone status

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I (as well as my company) am new to running P6, and have what should be a basic question.  I have searched the internet and have come up empty.  What I want to know is if I can filter projects in the EPS window based on milestone status.  Now I know ...

Aug 31, 2015

How to reschedule??

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Intially the project finish date was 30April 2016, Because of the Penalty milestone, dates have been prepon to Dec 2015..so how to fix this in p6???

Aug 31, 2015

Updating Problem

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Dear all, I want to be updating percentage comple so I rename the "Performance %Complete Colum" as , but when I try to enter a value, it only display 6%, no matter the value it will display 6%.Please help solve this problemThanks

Aug 31, 2015

total negative float

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Dear All,My name is faizi imam and i am working on revising a beseline schedule to claim for EOT.After revising the schedule i got the new project completion date in the summary but i am not getting total negative float,instead i am getting total flo...

Aug 31, 2015

Resource Max units / time

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I am using P6 Professional 8.3 and I'm having issues with the Resource - Max units / time allocation. I enter an effective date to start assigning 8 hours per day (Max units / time) for a activity, and then another effective date later on to start as...

Aug 31, 2015

Productivity for Building MEP services

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Hi Everyone,Please someone post the productivity of manpower for different services like, Water supply, Drainage, Chilled water supply, fire fighting, elctrical works etc for building construction project.

Sep 1, 2015

Primavera P6 Level Of Effort Activity Type

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Quite a few folks have been asking about how and when to use Level Of Effort activities in Primavera P6, so we though we would make a short movie explaining how they work. http://ow.ly/REuDC

Sep 1, 2015

Progress Calculation

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Hi All, In MS Project is it possible to remove the link between percentage complete and remaining durations.the concern is that based on the assigned emaining duration the achieved/inserted % progress is changing. MS Project is calculating the progre...

Sep 2, 2015

Convert Activity Code into WBS

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Hello Planners,is it possible to convert Activity Code into WBS entries? I have tried to write a Global Change saying "WBS = ", but the value can only be one of my WBS nodes.Thank you,Alexandre

Mar 23, 2016

How to load MS Project .mpp file to p6

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I have a schedule  done in MS Project thats in .mpp format. I tried to load the schedule into p6 but it accepts only XML. I converted the file format to XML but of no use. Could anyone shed a light on how to load this into p6

Mar 23, 2016

Is there a benefit to a frequent Primavera P6 upgrade?

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How often would you upgrade your P6 to the latest version? I know people that refused to upgrade and they are still using P6 v6 and it works perfect for them. They are basically doing the same job I am doing with my v15.2. It appear that primavera ma...

Mar 23, 2016

Activity Spreadsheet Usage / P6 V8.2

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Hi everyone,Right now I’m doing a contract migration from Lump-sum to Time & Material, I updated my schedule once a week but now my client need the number of hours expended by day.  Throw the Activity Spreadsheet Usage I can found all the information...

Mar 23, 2016

Update baseline

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Hello PPers,What could be the procedure to update a baseline in the recent P6 releases, where the Update button has been erased in the Maintain baseline dialog?Somebody around me is suggesting to restore the baseline, edit the resulting project, and ...

Mar 24, 2016

Automatically insert filter name in a report

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Hello Planners,Is it possible to insert the filter name as a variable in a report?Also, how could it be possible to dynamically change the filter before / when running a report? Is it possible to insert a filter as a variable in a report?Thank you al...

Mar 25, 2016

Problems With Contractors

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Hello, I invested a lot in planning, project management through certifications, training, reading and a Masters degree in Construction Management with 3.9 GPA. After all of this work, when I am meeting contractors for interviews, I try to explain to ...

Mar 25, 2016