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Apply Global Change with Job Services

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Hi everybody,I would like to apply a Global Change on my schedule, automatically, on a regular basis.The best solution would be to have something possible with the Job Services, but we know that the option is not possible.Does anyone have an idea to ...

Apr 15, 2020

Problems in importing Excel files

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Hi Everybody ,I exported a resource assignement excel file to change budgeted units and other data, when importing the resource is doubled (as shown in the attched image) , i recalculated the assignement costs , but still i will have to manualy remov...

Apr 15, 2020

Assign labor resources by teams in P6

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Hello everyone, I'm establishing a schedule for a new project, where I need to assign labor resources by teams.To simplify the problem, here is a more basic description:  We're building 10 tanks simultaneouslyEach tank is made of 4 shell ringsWe have...

Apr 15, 2020

Primavera Baseline - Even Without It, Data is There, howcome?

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Hi,I understand purpose of having baseline - it is used for comparing actual data with original data. However, I tried this and found out that Primavera maintains baseline data even if we did not create it.1. I make a plan.2. I enter actual progress....

Apr 16, 2020

Specify the interval to summarize and store resource spreads

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Dear MembersCould you please explain to me how does the "Specify the interval to summarize and store resource spreads" function works?I read about it but nothing happen when i changed options.Please help me with explains and template to understand it...

Apr 17, 2020

P6 ver 17 help please, copying WBS

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Morning all, I have a schedule and I'm creating another but I need to copy a section of WBS across both using the same ID's. I wouldn't think this a problem as they're different project IDs but P6 keeps renumbering them.Any ideas if this can be stopp...

Apr 20, 2020

Looking for reviews on Viziya

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Hi all,Hope everyone is safe and well in the current environment.The mining company that I work for is currently looking at a planning and scheduling solution called Viziya WorkAlign Scheduler and I am hoping that there might be some others out there...

Apr 24, 2020

P6 User Preferences

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Hello,Could someone help me to understand what is the diffrence and when or how to use these two options given in user preferences -calculations resource assignments title ?When adding or removing multiple resource assigments on activities1- Preserve...

Apr 24, 2020

Main project management software features

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Gentile Sig.,Sono uno studente universitario del corso di Project Management all'interno del programma di ingegneria gestionale dell'Università di Palermo, e attualmente sto sviluppando la mia tesi di laurea magistrale. A questo proposito, lo scopo d...

Apr 25, 2020

VBA code for setting Income value

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Hi expertsI'm writing macro for Asta and hit the wall when I want to assign income value in task.Below code finds Income Cost Centre assigned, but can't find a way to set value.Dim t As TaskBaseDim bcv As BarChartView Dim ca As CostAllocation Set bcv...

Apr 25, 2020

Critical Path Analysis

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Hi, everyoneI am managing a project for a client.I have claimed EOT, for the weather delays and the Principal Agent( PA) has asked me to support my claims with the critical path analysis (CPA)using MS Project ,Please HelpThanks , RegardsDavid

Apr 27, 2020

Exercise in Critical Path Analysis

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I just posted on LinkedIn a practice exercise I've used in my graduate courses for critical path analysis. It particularly focuses on understanding a network logic diagram and computing critical path darg and drag cost.Would be happy to answer any qu...

Apr 29, 2020

Alternatives to lags and dummy activities

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I haven't seen a good answer to this in the general forum and would really like to know the accepted theory or best practice.Example the engineering specification for a piece of equipment is available in M2, lets say it happens to be one of the first...

Apr 30, 2020

Forecast Schedule

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Dear Sirs,I would like to ask favor/ help for making the Forecast Schedule.Currently, I already completed the update on our Baseline Schedule to the current cut-off last 24.04.2020.After I run it , the outcome appears to be a -166 float. With this ap...

Apr 30, 2020

Critical Drivers help please

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Morning all, I have a plan in which I have an activity being pushed out and I wondered if there is an easy way to isolate it's critical driving predecessors going back to the initial activity causing the move?  Manually it's taking ages. Thanks in ad...

Apr 30, 2020