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Dear Professionals,Is there a way of importing numerous XER files in P6 rather than importing one by one?
Here's a guide on how you can perform Earned Value Management using Primavera P6 http://ed.gr/i3ix
What is it?ScheduleReaderTM is an independent standalone application for viewing XER XML and XLS project schedules. It is designed to replace the way of sharing project information as PDF files.Who is using it?All the Project Managers, Engineers, Tea...
My new contractor's planners refuse to submit: (these are all stipulated in the contract)1. Recovery Programme2. Substantation to Claimed Progress in the weekly reports3. Procurement tracking system4. KPIs of the planned and actual works5. Any of my ...
Hello Everyone,Just understand where the Cost of each activity would come from if you have to Cost Load a schedule.The BOQ of a Project would have a lumpsum quantity say for example,Concrete = 250 Cu M X 350$ / Cu M = 87,500 $.And in schedule we have...
Hi All,I am lookingfor advice on software. Currently working on Projects within Pharma industry, we have a Roadmap developed in Excel showing all the projects between 2018 and 2023 (ususlly 5yr rolling calendar). This roadmap has all the major highle...
Hello all, We with colleagues are currently trying to sort out whether the Reserve held at the Programme or Sub-portfolio level can be deemed the management reserve of the project?We are a big organisation and there is a very large portfolio of multi...
hi all,what is projects deemed failure?best,muataz
Is there a setting that handles this...? Float using Mandatory = 30 for example, but if using "On or before" exact same date sais 0 instead of the 30 days - why? should be 30 also...I used P3 longer than P6 but if I add a finish on or before Constrai...
I've just started to examine the tables within XER files. Within the Calendar table, there is a field called clndr_data, which has the calendar data for each calendar, i.e. the working time / days within the calendar and exceptions.The problem is how...
Corporate project management system usually includes the databases (reference-books) of the corporate standards and templates.These templates usually include the library of typical fragments that are small projects describing creation of typical proj...
In my project, There are three WBS. The first and third WBS are about project start and finish procedures. And the second WBS is about all project works of different desciplines. Is there any possible technique in P6 to identify the total float based...
Hi All,Could any one recommend me with an excellent Project Management Information System (PMIS)? I need this for company projects and need to be used by project managers and planners.best,Muataz
I've imported a new project and I have started to update the progress. I've had a few problems:1. When I update the actual units on an activity the actuals are added on to the at completion instead of taken away from at completion units. In other pro...
Hello Vladimir,Materials in Spider have an option called Discrete Consumtion which rounds up the consumtion of the material (granted the Backload consuption is set to No).So here is my question, is there a way to do this with resources?Example: Backh...
Hi,Does anyone know if its possible to create user defined columns that you can populate from drop down lists?looking to create a columns where I can have units such as kg, tonne, m , m2 etcRegardsChris
Hello Vladimir,in the latest versions of Spider Macros have been introduced as a new functionality. There are two types of macros:Internal, from what I understand these are macros applied at the project (file) level;External, from what I understant t...