I had a very simple question posed to me in the Plan Academy Member's Community area recently about auditing P6's Activity Codes. It was this: How can I prepare a report to see which projects use my Global Activity Codes? ie: Can I prepare a report where I can see all the “Global Activity Codes” used in each project in my Primavera P6 database? Posted by one our P6 trainees, it was a question
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Thou Shalt Not Group by WBS Alone – Try Grouping By P6 Activity Codes
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On most projects, the structure of Schedule and Cost performance reporting is based on the Project WBS and the reason for this is not farfetched since WBS is a deliverables-driven hierarchical structure. Planning tools such as Primavera P6 have a feature that enables Schedulers and Planners to replicate the Project WBS and this is why activities in a schedule are predominantly grouped by
How to clean a Primavera P6 XER file using the XER File Parser
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In the third part of our Primavera P6 databases and data cleansing series, we will show how to use the parser to clean an xer file. But if you haven't read them go back and read: XER File Parser Excel utility Part 1: 6 Ways to Clean Up Your Primavera Database Nightmare Part 2: Understanding Primavera XER Files Cleaning an XER File for Import NOTICE: the Primavera XER File Parser is not
6 Ways To Clean Up Your Primavera P6 Database Nightmare
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This is the first part in our series on Primavera P6 databases and data cleansing. Many of you work in Primavera P6 databases that are a complete nightmare - hundreds of global calendars, duplicate resources all over the place, redundant codes and more copies of projects than anyone should ever need in their lifetime. You may act like these don't bother you, but somehow logging in to P6 in the
Quick Tip: Use Fill Down To Copy Data Across a P6 Schedule
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As all of you know, when you want to develop a time schedule there are many attributes that should be assigned to activities and for this purpose we use Activity Detail bottom on the Activity Toolbar. By pressing this bottom, a form will be appear below your time schedule and in this for you can assign different attributes to your activities, such as type, duration, start and finish dates,
Convert WBS to Activity Codes in Oracle Primavera P6
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The idea of this tutorial was inspired by a question in LinkedIn forum, a planner have received a primavera schedule using WBS, as in the oil and gas industry it is very useful to have different layouts to present the schedule to different audience, and more importantly the Work breakdown structure is based on geographic area in the construction phase, and systems in the commissioning phase, the
Quick Tip: How To Convert an EPS Activity Code to a Project Activity Code in Oracle Primavera P6
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EPS Activity Codes are great when we want to have a set of Activity Codes available to certain projects based on where they sit in your EPS structure. An example might be having a set of Activity Codes for each Department in your database. Typically, EPS nodes would be set up for each Department, allowing an organization to specific a set of EPS Activity Codes for each Department that are only
