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Show Completed Task as Critical

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Hello,I'm looking to analyse the critical path of a part-completed programme for a project, however, tasks that are 100% complete or have been progressed do not show up as critical.Is there any way of showing progressed items as critical without havi...

Oct 15, 2018

Starting career in planning/cost control

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Hi,I'm currently a junior civil engineer (2-3 years experience) working for a consultancy, and have developed in interest in project planing/cost control as a future career. I'm just wondering what can I do to become more knowledgeable in this area?I...

Oct 15, 2018

Combination relationship

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In Primavera P6 we can have a combination relationship i.e an activity can have same predecessor twice, once with Start-Start relationship & another with Finish- Finish relationship. Is it a good practice to have such type of combination relationship...

Oct 15, 2018

Import problem Primavera Risk Analysis mpp file

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When I import an MS project file, the duration of the activities are divided by 3.For example an actitivity has in MS Project a duration of 20 days and after import in PRA only 7 days.I tried to change the import parameters and match the number of ho...

Oct 16, 2018

eBooks for P6 and/or General CPM Scheduling

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Hello,I am taking a 17 hour plane flight and thought a good scheduling eBook would either make some nice light reading, or an effective sleeping agent.Does anyone know of a good eBook about CPM scheduling, or something particular to P6?I'm hoping for...

Oct 17, 2018

Integrated Programme Development

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Dear all,I took on an EPC programme as a client-planner with three different contractors on it. At the end of the month, these three contractors submit their programmes separately, and I analysed and produced various reports for Senior Management cur...

Oct 17, 2018

Adjust start date when schedule has logic applied to it

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Hello everyone, I am a construction student using asta to build a schedule for a project I am working on. Now, I have built the entire schedule start to finish, but unfortunetly I have forgotten to add my preconstruction tasks, which, are required fo...

Oct 17, 2018

PSA : : Primavera P6 Professional 18.8 - XML Import Bug

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OK, so we had this problem importing XML files into P6 and it stumped us for a while. It turns out it was a bug in P6 Professional version 18.8 and there is a patch to fix it http://ed.gr/blcwhI hope this helps other folks that have been struggling w...

May 20, 2019

Autoincrement of Project ID

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I see in P6, based on the default settings at project level, the activity ID gets incremented automatically when we copy an activity. Is there similar setting somewhere for auto incrementing of Project Number at EPS level when we create a project, pl...

May 20, 2019

Autoincrement of Project ID

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I see in P6, based on the default settings at project level, the activity ID gets incremented automatically when we copy an activity. Is there similar setting somewhere for auto incrementing of Project Number at EPS level when we create a project, pl...

May 20, 2019

Deleting activities on a baselined plan

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Hi, I'm looking for some advice on deleting activities on a plan. I need to delete some activities which are no longer valid and redistribute hours to new activities. The plan has been baselined. What is the best way for me to do this? I'm looking fo...

May 20, 2019

Restore Deleted Activity Codes

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Hello,During a process of passing XERs back and forth with a consultant, all activity codes for about 2000 activities were deleted.Are there any automated ways of adding them back in using a previous version where the codes still exist?Thanks

May 21, 2019

Identifying Second & Third Longest Path's in Primavera P6

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Hi Schedule Experts,Just to pick up your brain a bit; what is the best automatic method to identify second, third, fourth etc. Longest Path's in Primavera P6? I have a complex schedule with many constraints and resource levening and unfortunately the...

May 21, 2019

14.8 weeks - i want it to say 15 weeks

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Hello :-) How do i get the duration to show just whole numbers e.g. 15w not 14.8wThe project is Mon to Fri 9-5pm.I need to show the completion date as a friday not a sunday but still have the week as a whole number.I have Sat & Sun as none working da...

May 22, 2019

MS Project 2016 Histogram without assigning resources

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Hello, While I am familiar with reading various forms of schedules, (MS Project, Primavera, Excel), I am admittedly not proficient at manipulating the software. In trying to educate myself thorugh YouTube, I have found that all of the instructional v...

May 22, 2019

Office 365 compatibility

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Hello Planners,One customer of mine is working with Office 365 and MS Project 2010; he cannot use MS Project Visual Reports because these two software applcations cannot work together (I do have the same problem when using MSP 2016 with MS Excel 2010...

May 24, 2019

Steps to Tasks

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Is there a way to convert the steps of a task to tasks.  Originally some task were created as steps and now the team would like to view the steps as tasks and view the logic and driving tasks.  The task was entered as Task Dependent and the steps add...

May 28, 2019

% Complete calculated from Baseline

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Hi there!I am fairly new to Primavera, therefore the below question may seem a little strange to some of the pros here.In the programme update for the client, I've been asked by a colleague to calcualte % complete that we should be on as of Data Date...

May 29, 2019

Add new fonts to P6

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Hi All, I am running R16.2 and my client is requesting a specific font for all layouts that is not in the font library. How does the database administrator or Oracle administrator add the required font? Thanks, Rod

May 30, 2019