Removing Progress and Fixing Mistakes in Primavera P6

Sometimes we make mistakes! But don't panic. Primavera P6 is very forgiving. In this lesson you'll learn how to remove progress from an activity so you can correct any mistakes. But I know you'll never mistakes....right?

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What happens if I make mistakes while I'm progressing? What if I put in the wrong date? Or what if I've progressed the wrong activity and I need to undo it? How do I get out of this conundrum? In this short video I’ll show you a couple of things you can do to undo progressing and to fix any mistakes you’ve made.

First thing, Primavera is very forgiving whenever you’ve entered incorrect data, it’s very forgiving you can usually go ahead and correct it, for example this activity is already progressed but perhaps I’ve indicated the wall finish date, not a problem, I can go ahead and indicate a new finish date either earlier or later.

The one thing you want to recognize about finish dates though however is if you change the finish date the actual duration may not be calculated until after you reschedule the project, so that will be updated again a little bit later, not a problem to go ahead and change either the start or the finish dates, the same thing occurs on the resources and expenses tab.

Primavera will let you change the actual units and change the actual costs, you’re welcome to go ahead and make adjustments even after you've rescheduled and moved to data date, it's not a problem.

One challenge people have with Primavera is undoing progress on an activity that they’ve already statused, so for example we’ll look at th...

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