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Problem with importing resources in P6

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Good day! I have a small query...please help me to resolve it if you canWhen I’m importing a project in P6, resources(budgeted labour units) are not showing the same value as per the imported project.Awaiting your replies Thanks in advance  Prince Ra...

Jul 17, 2019

Resource Loading

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Dear All,Hope you are doing great! I have few queries related to resource loading:1. Let's say there is an activity (duration 1 day) which required 10 welders and 5 helpers. So how to assign resources to the activites. Do I have to define 10 welders ...

Jul 18, 2019

Exporting Problem from Primavera to Excel

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Dear All,To day I have tried to export a P6 file to Excel format but unlucky it appeared to be failed, the dialog box said that: "Cannot export while sub-unit for duration/time are enable". I have tried in several ways to solve it but still failed. A...

Jul 19, 2019

Exporting Problem from Primavera to Excel

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Dear All,To day I have tried to export a P6 file to Excel format but unlucky it appeared to be failed, the dialog box said that: "Cannot export while sub-unit for duration/time are enable". I have tried in several ways to solve it but still failed. A...

Jul 19, 2019

Change of Direction

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Last month I celebrated my 75th birthday.No I am not retiring but I am contemplating a change of direction.In future I will not be completing the entire commission myself but will act as strategist and guide and let others do the work under my contro...

Jul 19, 2019

So why does Oracle Primavera still not compute Critical Path Drag?

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I believe it's now 10 years since Spider Project started computing critical path drag in CPM schedules and 5 years since it introduced the computation functionality on its resource critical path schedules.It's also approaching 3 years since Asta Powe...

Jul 20, 2019

Critical bars Display before Baseline

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Hi Everybody,Please clarify thisWhy my some actvities are showing Red in Gantt Chart even i didn't make the baseline and not entered the project must by Finish Date. Thanks

Jul 21, 2019

P6 Interview Test

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I found this quite interesting. Apparently, it's a real interview test for hiring P6 schedulers. Not that this is a bad thing and you can call me old school, but I guess we no longer trust our verbal interviewing skills?  ow.ly/kVjE50v7OSI

Jul 22, 2019

Primavera Layout - Information fetch

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Hello Folks,Scenario - There are many UDFs used in different Layout. (Total Layout-2000+)User has discountinue 2 UDF and now they want to know in which layout this UDF is getting used. Is there any way to find out from backend because checking one by...

Jul 24, 2019

Earned Schedule with P6

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House,I'll like to know if anyone using the P6 has applied the principles of Earned Schedule especciall Spi(t). I will appreciate if I could be guide through please. Thanks

Jul 24, 2019

Local resources limit (for each project)

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Hi guys,I'm having several resources that are being used in different projects (same resource ID). Is is possible in P6 to set different limits  on same resource for each project?

Jul 25, 2019

Page Setup, Paper Size showing only 2 options

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Dear All,I have bought a new laptop and installed the latest version P6 18.8.In Page setup, i want to save Schedule in A3 Size but there are only 2 options available (A4 and Letter).

Jul 27, 2019

Project Scheduler - Uploading of Actuals Costs into PS8

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Hi all,We have just migrated to SAP Business By Design, and I am struggling to download Actuals Labour sts and Material/Expense Costs into PS8. Im currently doing this manually by hand, and its not a small task, trust me.We used to do this in the old...

Jul 28, 2019

Activity cost as a percentage of the Project Budget Cost

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Hi guys, I would like to express an activity cost as a percentage of the project budget cost. For example Project A - Total Cost is $5000Project A has numerous activities and I would like a Column that expresses the Cost of the Activities as a percen...

Jul 29, 2019

Engineering Sequencing

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I am trying to schedule an EPC project but I am unsure of the logic that is incorpoarted in each discipline: Process, Mechanincal, Structure/Civil, instrumentation, Electrical, and Piping. Also, how are disciplines connected to one another? If anyone...

Jul 29, 2019

Project Summary Task Displaying Inaccurate Total Slack

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Recently my project schedule started displaying the wrong total slack number. In the screenshot below it should display -47 not -33. I am using the same calendar throughout the project. Please advise![[wysiwyg_imageupload:6903:]]

Jul 30, 2019

How to Password Protect .XER file??

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Firstly, yes I searched for my question/answer and found nothing useful.  I'm working with... an "interesting" client to say the least. PDF prints of my schedule are not sufficient, and they require the .xer file that I am working with. I absolutely ...

Aug 1, 2019

Actual Finish Dates On Team Member

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Without going into the background, when using Team Member, our Task Owners often need to update their tasks on a Wednesday and they need to mark a task as finished and give it an actual finish date of Thursday or Friday, one or two days in the future...

Aug 2, 2019

Is Your Agile Project Healthy?

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Experienced agile coaches and practitioners develop a sixth-sense. They can quickly assess the health of an agile project or team just as doctors do with their patients. In 2013, Mike Cohn coined the term scrum smells to describe the signs that a scr...

Aug 4, 2019