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Primavera P6 Activity Codes Tutorials

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Bad P6 Progressing: Analysis With Deltek Acumen Fuse

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Bad P6 Progressing: Analysis With Deltek Acumen Fuse

In this post, we're talking about bad P6 progressing. That's right. Bad P6 progressing. I'm about to launch a brand-new course called "Advanced P6 Progressing". In this new course, I show you how to progress all sorts of different ways, earn value, financial periods, and much more. But one of the things that we really dive deep into is bad P6 progressing - what you should not do when you progress

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Convert an EPS Activity Code to a Project Activity Code in Primavera P6

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Convert an EPS Activity Code to a Project Activity Code in Primavera P6

The Primavera P6 EPS Activity Code is 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

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How to clean a Primavera P6 XER file using the XER File Parser

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How to clean a Primavera P6 XER file using the XER File Parser

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 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

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6 Ways To Clean Up Your Primavera P6 Database Nightmare

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6 Ways To Clean Up Your Primavera P6 Database Nightmare

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

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How to Audit Your Primavera P6 Global Activity Codes

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How to Audit Your Primavera P6 Global Activity Codes

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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Thou Shalt Not Group by WBS Alone – Try Grouping By P6 Activity Codes

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 Work

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Quick Tip: Use Fill Down To Copy Data Across a P6 Schedule

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Quick Tip: Use Fill Down To Copy Data Across a P6 Schedule

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,

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Convert WBS to Activity Codes in Oracle Primavera P6

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Convert WBS to Activity Codes in Oracle Primavera P6

The idea of this tutorial was inspired by a question in LinkedIn forum. A planner had received a Primavera P6 schedule using WBS. It's often useful to have different layouts to present the schedule to a different audience, so Activity Codes were needed. More importantly the Work Breakdown Structure was based on geographic area in the construction phase, and then based on systems in the

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