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Budgeted Labout Units at WBS Level

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Hi All, I want to calculate the estimate weights for individual activities based on the labour units for Top down estimation. My idea is to use Global change where in I can divide individual activity's labour unit by the total labour unit of WBS. Whe...

Nov 26, 2018

Automatic tool for product management

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Hello everyone!   Sorry for bad english and grammar, I am not a native speaker...  I work at small metal metallurgical plant in East Europe. We produce different pieces of metal, they can be divided by size, materials, strength and so on. We have own...

Nov 26, 2018

Original Duration Summary

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Hi Guys,Does anyone here has an insight on how P6 calculate total duration? the issue is, the original duration total or Baseline Duration  is has higher number of days (although it is already a fixed date) than my actual duration when we have record...

Nov 29, 2018

Hello everyone.

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Hello everyone,It seems that I am the first to make a posting here.I am keen to be part of a self support and exchange discussion in all matters related to identifying, those planning and implementing project controls, which are both simple to unders...

Nov 29, 2018

Terminal Float - Increase in Duration

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Dear All Planning Planet Users,I understand that the contractor own the Terminal Float and I understand that if there was a compensation event that impact the planned completion date, the contract completion date will be impacted by the same amount o...

Nov 30, 2018

Scheduling Lane Closures for Multiple Operations

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Hello,I am putting together a short term schedule with multiple operations on a highway that requires traffic closures each night.   Each activity is specific in which direction traffic needs to be closed.If it were only one operation, I would consid...

Nov 30, 2018

[Q] Filter Showing LOE and Every Related Tasks to the LOE?

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Hi everyone.  Not a regular poster but I thought this is the best site to ask this question.So if I have LOEs on my schedule and I want to create a filter to show that specific LOE and the related tasks driving it, is this even possible? Thanks in ad...

Nov 30, 2018

Create a Learning Environment: Profit from Your Mistakes

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“All good lessons come at a cost.  Try to learn them inexpensively.”  Howard ZuckerWhen I made a mistake as a child, my father would remind me that all lessons come at a cost.  The goal was to learn them cheaply.  I did not always follow this maxim. ...

Dec 2, 2018

My post description & search function

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Hi, I don't know if this has been suggested before, but under my post rather than having 'Description' ('None' is placed for each post so far) could you place the thread title instead. It'd be handy as a shortcut to a thread you have contributed in. ...

Dec 2, 2018

Nested Filters

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I find the filters in P6 to be very difficult.  When correctly built, they are wonderful but I can't seem to find a good desciption of how to build a nested filter.... I just spent about 1/2 and got what I needed but, it is trial an error. Is there a...

Dec 4, 2018

Activity Network Diagram in P6

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Hi All,I need to make a print out of the Activity Network Diagram from P6, showing the main Critical Path and 2 nearest paths. In the print preview A0 size is too small to view and in A3 it will be of too many pages. Any one tried it .I tried to copy...

Dec 5, 2018

Urgent Help Please

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While scheduling my project, my schedule % complete value increases for few seconds on the screen and later it adopts the previous constant value. I mean my schedule % complete value is not changing. Any leads please?

Dec 6, 2018

HELP - Total Float While Levelling

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Hi All,I have a resource loaded and linked schedule with a finish milestone (forecast) linked to a constrained mandatory finish milestone(target finish date) and can see my float correctly in the Total Float column with no resource constraints applie...

Dec 6, 2018

Detaching the baseline

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Greetings to everyone. I have to detach the baseline to modify some duration and some calenders. After modification I am expected to re assign the same base line. Any Suggestion , what precaution should I take during this...? Thanks in Advance.

Dec 8, 2018

Client Instruction of Variation

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Dear All,We have 4 delay events in our project. First event has currently an impact of 124 days delay and is still not completed and it is the Client's reponsibililty of the delay. The other three events have been finalized and awarded 60 days EoT by...

Dec 8, 2018

Activity Gap

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Dear all,If for example I have one activity that has been commenced on the 4th of Dec, then the activity was paused on the 6th, afterwards it has been proceeded again on the 12th of Dec and totally finished on the 18th of Dec, how can I reflect that ...

Dec 8, 2018

MS Project- Progress Line

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HiI have an issue with the progress line in MS Project.I have a summary bar that has all the sub tasks beneath it with 0% complete. The summarry bar also shows 0% complete, but when the progress line is added to the Gnatt chart it shows all the sub t...

Dec 11, 2018