Quick Tip: Descrunch the P6 Gantt Timescale For Better Printing
Have you ever printed your P6 Gantt Chart only to find that you can’t quite see the first or last…
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Primavera Inspire for SAP version 8.0 released
There’s definitely a trend that is growing steam amongst companies that use Enterprise Project Management systems like Primavera P6. It’s…
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[Video] Building a Stacked Histogram in Primavera P6
A great way to see all your resource assignment levels comparatively over time is to use a Stacked Histogram in Primavera…
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Primavera P6 Planning – the Truth in Pictures (fun)
I’m a huge fan of the art of planning and scheduling. Critical Path, Total Float, submittals, Earned Value…it’s all great…
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Do You Make These Project Scheduling Mistakes?
Do you always document your scheduling methodology BEFORE building a project schedule? Is your schedule littered with relationship lag? Do…
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Approve Updates from Subcontractors using Reflection Projects in Oracle Primavera [Video]
Featured this week is a great way to use Primavera P6 Reflection projects. If you’ve perused our other Primavera P6 tutorials,…
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Primavera P6 Relationship Lines Point to Baseline Bars. Why? [Video]
Primavera P6 relationships lines sometimes do some strange things. By now you’ve probably figured out how to turn on and…
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How To Shade Non-Workable Time on the P6 Gantt Chart
It turns out that people like pictures. Yes, that’s right, we love pictures….and we love the Gantt Chart. What makes…
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P6 Professional R8’s New User Interface : A Game Changer
Oracle Primavera 8.2 was recently released in late 2011. The release for didn’t make a huge splash as there wasn’t…
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How to Build a Lookahead Filter in Primavera P6
A lookahead filter in Primavera P6 provides us with the ability to create lookahead reports. Lookahead reports are one of…
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Can A P6 Level Of Effort Help Define Work Stoppage?
Typically when we develop a schedule we assume that an activity can be finished uninterrupted once it has commenced. But,…
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Using Primavera’s .Xer File Parser – Import WBS From Excel Without The SDK
In this tutorial we explain how to import a WBS dictionary in Primavera P6 without the SDK. NOTE: The…
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How To Import WBS From Excel To Primavera P6 Using The SDK
In this tutorial we explain how to use the Oracle Primavera P6 SDK to import a WBS from Excel to…
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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 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 tutorial will use the APEX sample schedule to convert a WBS to activities codes, it is assumed you
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Video Tutorial: Activity Splitting in P6 Using User Defined Fields
Primavera doesn’t have a feature to split a planned activity. It does have “Suspend” and “Resume” fields for statusing an…
