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Moving from P6 to Project...Help!

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I've recently been asked to take over a team of Planners by my boss however the team are using Microsoft Project whereas the rest of the company uses P6.Having used P6 for 11 years I'm not new to Planning but am completely new to Microsoft Project an...

Mar 1, 2021

How to link Percent Complete to Progress Periods

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Good morning everyone,I would like to link the Percent Complete to the Progress Period so that when I am looking at each Progress Period, the Percent Complete entered will reflect that Progress Period. This relationship is present with the Progress P...

Mar 2, 2021

Priority, Relative Priority

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Hello Vladimir, For some time I have seen you added a new field called Priority Relative. From what I have read in the manual Spider considers priorities as follows: a). Phase priority is the highest priority and if a phase has a priority then the ac...

Mar 2, 2021

Planned Progress for Building Project

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Greetings Planners,Based on what to estimate the planned progress for a building project that includes sub-structure and super-structure items (steel fixing, shuttering, casting, deshuttering, slab on grade ect.I have quantities for steel and quantit...

Mar 3, 2021

Slip disappears in new progress period

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Hi all,I have multiple progress periods, and for some reason, the slip values in the slip column disappear on all progress periods past the 5th one. For all progress periods 1-4, I have had no issues.I am basing the slip on a baseline.Nothing has cha...

Mar 5, 2021

the MS Excel schedule template you have seen? EASY ONES & COOL ONES

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Excel Schedules have their uses.  (I am a 33 year P3/P6 user also)  What is the best one we can get a copy of that you have seen? - price not being an issue either.  For example from the MS template database etc.  CATEGORY 1 - EASY FOR CONSTRUCTION S...

Mar 5, 2021

Show Calendar Days instead of Dates in MS Project Schedule columns

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Sometimes during tender or bid submission for a project, the client might not provide a Project start date and bidders would be required to show ordinal dates in the Gantt chart timeline and calendar days in the start and finish dates columns, so tha...

Mar 9, 2021

4D Planning Software

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Afternoon all, Looking for a bit of advice regarding 4d planning software, Not sure what thread to put this is.I am a  construction planner currently working for a tier 1 Contractor in the UK , we are looking to use a current project as an exemplar t...

Mar 24, 2021

Primavera Date Range

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Hi,Can anyone tell me if Primavera has a specific cut off date for long range portfolio planning?  I know the system can cope with 10-20 years but am not so sure projecting say 80-100 years plus for full lifecycle portfolio planning.  I ran a few sce...

Mar 25, 2021

Creating Resource Curves for Labour Loading Profiles

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 Hello All,I am trying to understand how the Resource Curves are created when using the 21 points shown in the development window.Enterprise > Resource Curves > Add or Modify.[[wysiwyg_imageupload:7689:]]I have a 3 month duration activity with a budg...

Mar 26, 2021

Creating Resource Curves for Labour Loading Profiles

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 Hello All,I am trying to understand how the Resource Curves are created when using the 21 points shown in the development window.Enterprise > Resource Curves > Add or Modify.[[wysiwyg_imageupload:7689:]]I have a 3 month duration activity with a budg...

Mar 26, 2021

Adding One Time Expense

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How can i add one time expenses for a project in the total cost that will add up in the total cost but should not distribute in any activity?

Apr 13, 2020

Primavera EPPM Test Environment Permissions

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I have Primavera EPPM installed on a test server. I have created an EPS, OBS, and user security privileges on the test server. When my IT department moves me to the ‘live’ (or some call it a production) environment. Can I copy the work I created in t...

Apr 14, 2020

Date Center Programme Sample

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Hi all,I was wondering if any of you work in any Data Center project? I was thinking of getting into data center projects and was wondering if any of you have a programme sample for data center, if so I would really appreciate it, if you could share ...

Apr 15, 2020