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Large Activity Filter

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Hi All you Brainiacs! Have any of you found a way to autocreate a large filter? I have about 75 Materials Delivery milestones and I want to show their Successor/s So my filter terms would be:Where Predecessor = (insert Milestone id)orWhere Predecesso...

May 27, 2022

% Complete Confusion - here is the data...

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April 29 Data Date April 29 Actual start on activity Orig Dur = 20 Actual Dur = 5 Rem. Dur = 20 Per. Complete Type = Dur. Dur. Complete = 0% Sched. % Complete = 45% - how is this possible.float -39.Should I tell the contractor it has to be wrong to h...

Jun 2, 2022

Good News for all Primavera SDK Magic Tool Users

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Good News for all Primavera SDK Magic Tool Users.Register Link:https://www.facebook.com/P6.MagicTools/posts/pfbid0RwfQK9bzbytb1Wmo8vf3Mq8SnGwG1MLRjUeo3d2MtqWQLhVLNGfYVcMu6p2UTGA5lNew Feature:Draw all S-Curves, Histograms and Cash Flow of Primavera Pr...

Jun 2, 2022

Gantt 101: Building a Better Project Schedule

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The Gantt Chart is the most widely used project scheduling tool.  It visually depicts the project’s activities, when they will occur, and their interdependencies.  When used correctly, it is powerful.  Unfortunately, most Gantts are poorly constructe...

Jun 4, 2022

Effect of a Crew on Productivity

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Hello,I've multiple crews working on the same activity type, but diferent buildings.Assume the are steel fixers and the overall productivity is 100kg/day for today, and by simple analysis, I found that 50% of crews (Group A) produced 150kg/day and th...

Jun 10, 2022

Longest path in under specific WBS

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Hi All, I am working with 20 different construction under one P6 Program. Example WBS as below;   1. Facility Construction1.1. Block A1.2. Block B1.3. Block C and goes on. they are not connected to each other. their only intersection is project start...

Jun 14, 2022

NASA RIDM Handbook SP-2010-576

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Hi, has anybody used this handbook to inform their E&C Risk Processes? Seems highly technical and couched in risk language for the average risk planner.thanks

Jun 17, 2022

Chronological Order

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I have just started to learn P6. Recently I wrote a small programme in P6 and linked it. Suddenly programme chronological order changed from back to front (last activity on top then earliest activity to bottom) Has anyone got any idea why  this happe...

Jun 17, 2022

I have 2 projects open with 2 different data dates.

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I have 2 projects open with 2 different data dates.  I am sliding a bar in the 2nd one but my Duration at completion is not coming out right - or to fix that the dates are not correct.  I have checked the calendars - could it be because of the data d...

Jun 22, 2022

Who is the delay on for "Supply Chain" problems?

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Everybody is claiming "supply chain problems"  -  for structural steel - that has always seems to take longer than planned - shouldn't that always be on the contractor?  The pandemic is effectively over, shouldn't the associated claims be also? what ...

Jun 22, 2022

P6's crazy calendar

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I date vs duration complications I cannot figure out.  I assume it is from the contractors's calendar.  I am going to import others to see.  But also, will all time be calculated correctly if I put the hours per time period at 8dy 40 wk 172 mo, 2000 ...

Jun 22, 2022

Complex Negative Float Query

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Hi all,I am looking to resolve some negative float on a P6 schedule handed over to me.Please note:1. There are no hard Constraints2. No 'Must Finish By' on the project date3. No external relationships  As you can see below, the on the 'Project Start'...

Jun 23, 2022

Complex Negative Float Query

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Hi all,I am looking to resolve some negative float on a P6 schedule handed over to me.Please note:1. There are no hard Constraints2. No 'Must Finish By' on the project date3. No external relationships  As you can see below, the on the 'Project Start'...

Jun 23, 2022

Contractual Dates, in the past

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Could someone please give me a suggestion on how to deal with contractual milestones that are in the past as far as the Data Date is concerned?I have a number of projects where the contract completion milestone date is now in the past, yet is not com...

Jun 23, 2022