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Planning Level

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Hi everybody,I have always a real trouble to define the Level of my planning or to discuss a plannig with our contractor, sometimes the planning that I have to discuss for me is a L4 and for the contractor is a L3, do you have an answer ?

Jun 21, 2020

Task Name / Date used in a movie column

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Hi,I'm managing several project schedules all of which have the milestone task GoLive. I want to be able to capture the date into a movie date column I've created. Is there a way to do this via a formula or other method?Many thanks for your help. ---...

Jun 24, 2020

EOT - Covid 19

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Good Afternoon Respected Planners, I am working on EPC Project guided by FIDIC form of contract Unlike NEC in FIDIC programmes cannot be rejected by client but there is a mechanism for acknowledging the programme on receipt from contractor every mont...

Jun 24, 2020

error - user is logged on

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I am using a standalone P6 v16.2 and cannot get logged on after my computer crashed.   I keep getting error message that 'user is logged on'.Any advice on how to clear this?

Jun 25, 2020

Activity ID in Project Online

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Hi,We are developing a solution when enterprise schedules could be reported via backend from Primavera and Project Online (Enterprise Master Schedule). Our solution already works with P6 schedules and we need to add all schedules from Project Online....

Jun 26, 2020

WBS Name Maximum Characters

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Hi All,When try to import a P6 XML file, show up an error window saying "Valvue too large for cloumn WBS_Name (actuall:116, maximum :100)", Any advice on how to solve it or where can adjust my WBS name Maximum Characters. thanks and regards

Jun 28, 2020

Revised Program of Work

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Good Day,If i want to submit a revised program of work for a counstruction project witch is four months to finish, do i have to submit the remaining activities only or the full program??regards,

Jul 1, 2020

Making Complex Decision

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“…when faced with a difficult question, we often answer an easier one instead, usually without noticing the substitution.”  Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and SlowIn the midst of the pandemic, we have and will continue to face numerous complex decis...

Jul 1, 2020

Imported XER showing as 4 separate items in the EPS

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Afternoon all,I've been sent an XER file of a single plan, yet once the import is complete it's showing as 4 separate items in the enterprise screen.  Open one and they all open, try to delete one and all go.  It's behaving as one but appearing as 4....

Jul 6, 2020

Hide Non-working days in P6

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 Hello, Can i know if there is a way to hide the non working days using P6? For example Working day = Monday to FridaySaturday and Sunday are not working day  Activity A F/S Link to Activity B. Activity A finish on Friday.Activity B start on Monday b...

Jul 7, 2020

Asta Version 15.0.01 - Did the "Save As" an XER get removed ?

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Up until late May ’20 I could utilize a “Save As” function to retain a copy of an Asta Project as an XER File (for translation to P6).I am now on Version 15.0.01 – The "Save/Save As" drop down does not offer the ability to Save As and XER (only varia...

Jul 7, 2020

Importing excel dates- changing the 00:00 to 17:00

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Importing excel dates- changing the 00:00 to 17:00 .  The odd thing is when you look at the excel "bar" it shows 5/16/2018 12:00:00.  I have had schedule effected by the "hours" so i want it 5pm or 17:00.  I tried replace but there was no excel optio...

Jul 8, 2020

Late dates showing for some completed activities but not others?

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Late dates showing for some completed activities but not others? Why would this be?  My assumption would be there is someting un-completed in the chain but that is not checking out.  Not the biggest problem, but makes me think something is wrong.

Jul 8, 2020

Get the WBS Magic Tool ( It’s free )

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The Magic Tools family presents the WBS Magic Tool ( It’s free )The fastest and the most accurate tool to design, present and export the WBS.WBS Magic Tool features:Design and create the WBS for any project by very simple and easy ways without any pr...

Jul 10, 2020

Time to Go Column & Hiding duration for the summary line

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Hi,How can I add the column to show the remaining days for an activity to start? I assume it should be a formula Today's date minus the activity's start date. Please see the photo below;[[wysiwyg_imageupload:7465:]]Also, how can I hide the start/fini...

Jul 10, 2020

Need Guidance on Schedule Risk analysis

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I have an updated schedule,3. some activites are completed.2. some have started but not completed3. some not yet started.I want to run a schedule risk analysis to no my probabilistic completion date. the schedule is not resource loaded. whats the bes...

Jul 13, 2020