Primavera P6 provides the ability to display project schedule information using “Layouts”. Layouts are customizable views of project information and are the primary method for printing Gantt Charts, Profiles, Spreadsheets, and Trace Logic views. Schedules are tough to read and all members of the project team can benefit from an easier way to interpret their [...]

  Many P6 users have trouble importing data from Excel.  Many of the problems are focused on importing costs or other numeric data fields that have been manually typed into Excel. Why can’t I import Primavera P6 cost data from Excel? Primavera P6 only imports data that is formatted as “Text” in Excel.  If you [...]

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 [...]

  Occasionally we revisit some of our reader’s favourite posts from the annals of the PlannerTuts tutorial library, and today we’re revisiting a topic that is always hot – importing updates from excel.  This video tutorial was first published on September 30th, 2011 and was very popular.  Let’s take a look! Often large projects demand [...]

There are three different methods of calculating the actual progress of activities: Duration Percent Complete, Units Percent Complete, and Physical Percent Complete. The first two are explained in the previous articles and this article will cover the last one, Physical % Complete. We will also discuss the ways of choosing the appropriate percent complete field [...]

A great way to see all your resource assignment levels comparatively over time is to use P6′s Stacked Histogram chart.  It’s a feature that is available in the Resource Usage Profile charting facility. Stacked Histograms are common sight in project environments.   Primavera P6′s stacked histogram stacks each bar on top of each other to give [...]

This article belongs to a series of articles about percent complete fields of Primavera P6. As explained in the previous article on the Duration % Complete, there are three percent complete fields for each activity: Duration % Complete Units % Complete Physical % Complete. We’ve already covered Duration % Complete and Schedule % Complete.  This [...]

There are many different methods for calculation of actual progress in Primavera P6.  These methods involve using many fields and settings, including: Duration % Complete Units % Complete Physical % Complete Percent Complete Type Activity % Complete Performance % Complete Earned Value settings of the WBS Elements I will explain Duration % Complete in this [...]

It’s not easy to find Relationship Lag in Primavera P6 project schedules. There aren’t really any features to highlight lag. But understanding how leads or lags are used on your project is an important part of really knowing your schedule.  We need a process to root out any relationship lags in P6. What’s wrong with [...]

If you missed Part 1 of Schedule % Complete in Oracle Primavera, go back now and have a read through.  Then come back here. The Proper Setup : Baselined and Cost-loaded Now let’s see how Schedule % Complete works in action on a sample Primavera P6 plan. Since Schedule % Complete is based on both [...]