by Paul Harris | Jul 31, 2024 | Microsoft Project
The Print form Manual page breaks check box from earlier versions of Microsoft Project has been removed and not available on the standard Ribbon Toolbar in later versions of Microsoft Project and the Manual page breaks check box has not appeared in any Print forms.
Also, manual page breaks may no longer be disabled and have to be deleted if not required.
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Manual page breaks are inserted by highlighting the row above where a page break is required:
- Placing the Manual Page Break icon on the Ribbon or Quick Access Toolbar, and clicking on it, or
- Typing Insert Page Break in the Tell me what you to do box at the top of the screen.
- A dotted line in earlier versions and a solid line in later versions will indicate the location of the manual page break.
- To remove a manual page break, highlight the row above where there is a page break and the Manual Page Break icon or typing Insert Page Break in the Tell me what you to do box a second time.
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by Paul Harris | Jul 25, 2024 | Oracle Primavera P6 PPM
It is difficult to check multiple calendars in the P6 PPM Calendar form to ensure that working time of multiple calendars match or aligned.
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I was asked by a student what is the simplest way to compare calendars in Oracle Primavera P6 and decided to write this short post.
This post outlines a simple method that may be used to compare different calendars using P6:
- The user should create an activity for each calendar,
- Then assign the calendar to each activity,
- Switch on Necking for calendar nonwork time in the Bars from for the Critical and Non-Critical activities and
- Increases the timescale to so all splits in the nonwork time are visible.
- Display the grid lines as required:
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by Paul Harris | Jul 17, 2024 | Oracle Primavera P6 PPM
Relationships may be created between two projects when:
- Two or more projects are opened together, or
- When assigning a relationship another project is opened and a relationship is created to an activity in another project.
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Check the Ignore relationships to and from other projects in the Tools, Schedule…, Options form to:
- Ignore relationships with other projects that are currently not open, or
- To ignore External Dates that may be created when a P6 project is imported from another database and the imported project has interproject relationships.
Thus:
- This option will NOT ignore relationships with other projects that are open.
- It will ignore External Dates, which are the External Early Start and External Late Finish External Dates are constraints created when a project is exported from another P6 database and imported into P6. They act like Early Start and Late Finish Constraints and are used to represent the relationships that would have originally provided the Early Start and Late Finish dates to the Critical Path calculations of the imported schedule.
These dates can be very confusing if one is not aware that they have been created or how they operate. The negative float in the picture below is created by these dates after an activity’s duration was increased by 34 days:
When you import a project from another database ensure you ALWAYS check for External Dates and understand how they operate.
If you export and then import a project back into the same database, then External Dates are not normally created but the relationships are re-established with the original schedule they were linked with.
Primavera Version 20 introduced a new command titles Maintain Relationships with External Projects which also affects how External Dates are treated, ensure you understand how this option works when importing a project that was exported and had External Relationships before exporting.
On the other hand, if the original schedules have been deleted then these External Dates may be created.
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by Paul Harris | Jul 17, 2024 | Oracle Primavera P6 PPM
When an activity is deleted then a chain of logical activities is broken. The Edit, Dissolve command and the right-click Dissolve command will delete an activity and links the predecessors and successors with a Finish-to-Start relationship. A Dissolved activity may not be undone.
P6 Version 19 introduced the ability to retain lag when dissolving activities. When Retain Lag is selected from the User Preferences, Calculations tab, the dissolved activities predecessor and successor lags will be added together to calculate the lag in the new relationship.
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When Oracle Primavera P6 introduces new functions then they are often turned off by default so the software calculates the same as earlier versions and this option is unchecked by default in the User Preferences, as per the picture below, and the user must check the option before it operates:
- Before Dissolving Activity 2:
- After Dissolving Activity 2 in P6 Version 19 without Retain Lag checked or in earlier versions of P6:
- After Dissolving Activity 2 in P6 Version 19 with Retain Lag checked:
NOTE: The predecessor and successor lag are added together.
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- Microsoft Project,
- Oracle Primavera P6 and
- Elecosoft (Asta) Powerproject
Online video training is available through Udemy through following these links:
Please follow these links:
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- Eastwood Harris inhouse, one-to-one and public training courses are offered through Primaskills Pty Ltd, more details here>>>>.
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by Paul Harris | Jul 17, 2024 | Oracle Primavera P6 PPM
The P6 Percent Complete type should be understood if it is intended to be used to update (status or progress) the schedule.
In summary the default for new activities is set in the Percent Complete Type drop-down box and this option may be set for each activity individually after it has been created.
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Default Percent Complete Type
The Default Percent Complete Type for each new activity in each project is assigned in the Defaults tab of the Details form in the Project Window:
The Percent Complete Type of a new activity is set to the Default Percent Complete when created and may be changed at any time in the Activities window.
Percent Complete Types
- Physical % Complete – This field enables the user to enter the percent complete of an activity and this value is independent of the activity durations and no summary values are calculated.
- Duration % Complete – This field is calculated from the proportion of the Original Duration and the Remaining Duration and they are linked. A change to one value will change the other. When the Remaining Duration is set to greater than the Original Duration this percent complete is always zero.
- Units % Complete – This is where the percent complete is calculated from the resources’ Actual and Remaining Units of Labor and Non Labor resources only. A change to one value will change the other and when more than one resource is assigned then all the Actual Units for all resources will be changed proportionally. This will be covered further in the Updating Resources This is similar to the Microsoft Project % Work Complete.
Activity % Complete
The Activity % Complete field is linked to the % Complete Type field assigned to an activity in the General tab of the Details form in the Activities Window or the % Complete Type column:
The Activity % Complete is also linked the % Complete Bar and this value is represented on the % Complete Bar.
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Accelerate your understanding of scheduling software to advance your scheduling career and be able to prepare better schedules with Eastwood Harris books, training courses and online videos on the following software packages:
- Microsoft Project,
- Oracle Primavera P6 and
- Elecosoft (Asta) Powerproject
Online video training is available through Udemy through following these links:
Please follow these links:
- Eastwood Harris books and training materials are available here https://www.eh.com.au.
- Eastwood Harris inhouse, one-to-one and public training courses are offered through Primaskills Pty Ltd, more details here>>>>.
- Resources for Oracle Primavera P6 users such as third party software that works with P6 and technical papers on Primavera P6 at https://primavera.com.au/.
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