Eastwood Harris Articles
Oracle Primavera P6 Version 21 Date Picker Box Enhancement
1 Introduction In P6 Version 20 and earlier users could not see the time when setting a date when the User Preferences were set not to show the time. Often when setting an Actual Start of Finish date, Suspend or Resume date, constraints dates etc. P6 would...
Maintain Relationships with External Projects When Importing from Primavera XML Files
Oracle Primavera P6 Version 21 introduced a new function titled Maintain Relationships with External Projects When Importing from Primavera XML Files. When you import projects from a Primavera XML file, you can choose whether to retain relationships between activities...
New book and training material on Oracle Primavera P6 Version 21 PPM
Paul E. Harris has just released his new Oracle Primavera P6 Version 21 PPM book and this may be ordered from links here>>>. Books are available in paperback, spiral, Kindle, Kobo, Google books and training course providers may buy instructor PowerPoint...
MICROSOFT PROJECT CRITICAL PATH CALCULATIONS
Many building and construction contracts specify that a delay may only be claimed when it impacts activities on the Critical Path but in turn leave it up to the contractor to decide what scheduling options they may use in their scheduling software, thus allowing the...
NEW BOOK ON MICROSOFT PROJECT 365 and 2021, INCLUDING 2019, 2016 and 2013
Microsoft Project 2021 was released in October 2021 and Microsoft Project 365 is a subscription version of this software. This book is an update of the authors Microsoft Project 2019 book and has been written to be used as the basis of a two-day training course and...
PRIMAVERA P6 PPM ACTIVITY NETWORK VIEW
The Activity Network, also known as the Program (or Project) Evaluation and Review Technique - PERT View, displays activities as boxes connected by the relationship lines. Activities may be added, deleted and linked in this view in the same way as in the Gantt Chart...
TASK SPLITTING IN MICROSOFT PROJECT
Task Splitting is normally switched on in Microsoft Project and users end up with splits at the start of a task which is quite difficult to sort out. If you wish to understand how Task Splitting in Microsoft Project works then this article is an extract from the books...
UPDATING A MICROSOFT PROJECT SCHEDULE PROPERLY
A properly updated a schedule is very important if you wish to manage a project or substantiate delays with the schedule. It is very simple to update a Microsoft Project schedule incorrectly and end up with completed work in the future or incomplete work in the past, both of which are totally illogical. Download this article, which is an extract from my book Planning and Control Using Microsoft Project 2013, 2016 & 2019, that explains how a program is properly in Microsoft Project
Renumbering Activity IDs in Oracle Primavera P6
After completing a schedule, the P6 Activity IDs are usually not in order from top to bottom. To make it simpler to find activities when checking the relationships it is useful to renumber the task from top to bottom. Unfortunately, the P6 Renumbering function will...
SETTING PRIMAVERA P6 INDICATOR COLUMNS TO SHOW GOOD OR BAD VARIANCES
User Defined Fields has an Indicator option that allows four indicators to be displayed. These may be used in conjunction with a Global Change to indicate the status of an activity in respect to a Baseline. If you wish to learn how to create a P6 Indicator column and...