Many of us are blessed with many things in our life that we seldom appreciate. Sometimes they are huge and other times they are small. Regardless of magnitude, Thanksgiving Day is the time of the year that serves well as a reminder to be thankful. Ap...
Hello,I am trying to update a baseline using the "Update" button in the "Maintain Baselines" window. I am working on a project that will have multiple bid packages over the length of the project and the owner wants to use earned value management. I d...
Hi,I have been given a task of standardizing Contracts and Project Controls processes and procedures. We are a service company in oil and gas and management is looking to reestablish these procedures based on well-known standards in major oil compani...
Hello Everyone, I am using P6.18.8.0 version.When I export it in XER format, the baseline is not been exported.when I export in XML format again the baseline is not exported.Any solution to this.ThanksJithin
Hello Everyone, Is there a way by which the Activity Bar which didnt meet the Basline Date can be highlighted in a different colour Say like Orange. Red coloured bar is critical activity, but I would like to show activities which hasnt met the baseli...
Hi,I need to change my relationship from FS to SS. When I try to do this via excel P6 keeps the FS relation. How can I remove the FS relations when I import the excel file. I want only SS relations.Many thanks for your support.
Hello all, My site was shutdown on the 24-Mar-20 due to Corona virus. However, my subcontractors returned to site at different time. Some of them returned on 15-Jun-20, some returned on 29-Jun-20, some on 22-Jun-20 and some on 03-Aug-20. My comme...
Hi everyone,I tried copying the resource assignment from P6 to excel, when i do this the units dont get copied across and the date column dates back to 1990 and my projects starts in 2020.Not sure what am doing wrong.Please help.
I will be creating a video mini-course on using Time Location Charts (aka Linear Schedules) to make better decisions and improve scheduling communication on projects, based on my practical experience over the past 20yrs in the industry, But first, I'...
In a schedule with a structured WBS what is the best practice for the activity names - exampleWBS: Site1/Building5/Area3/Machine foundations/ Activity Name: Pour ConcreteOR: Activity Name: Pour Machine foundation concrete at Site1, Building5, Area3 ...
Is there a way to zoom (increase size) of primavera (other than change computer default font). Like to be able to hit cntl + and have it work or whatever the common commands are? There is a +/- but that only effects the timescale.
Hi there,For people who have a very little knowledge of P6 Schedules: How do you argue that in order to assess schedule claims you need more than PDFs of the schedule.I need a very simple and preferably a visual illustration to demonstrate: Schedules...
The Magic Tools Family presents the BOQ Magic Tool ( It’s free )The seventh tool in the Magic Tools family collects all the divisions of the BOQ in one general table to facilitate the task of listing the activities of the schedule, pricing and price ...
Hi everyone,I am trying to import an xlsx file to P6 16.2 and getting the error "The User Preferences used to create this Excel file are not the same as your current preferences." Since I thought I could have tampered with the format of modified data...
Agile is now part of the general business lexicon. On the news, non-technology leaders keep mentioning the need to be “agile” or “pivot.” Even leaders of traditional industries, like football, use the terminology to describe their approach to their...
Hi,I am a newbie here for TILOS and I want to learn this as our company is pushing us to use this software.My difficulty is i want to display the same project in two windows but with different chainages.I have a road work project which runs from Ch 7...
I see a lot of posts regarding Unifier / P6. Is this because there are no issues, or it it just not getting used very much?
Hello Everyone,A majority of the projects have interim milestones, and clients are now more interested to know the longest path for each interim milestone. P6 does not have readily available options to find the driving path of any activity, and some ...
Is it a way to find out when each project last time have been published (Project Online)?
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