The Collapsed Schedule View In Primavera P6 Sometimes, a high-level view of a P6 schedule’s tasks helps to highlight gaps in their deliverables’ work plans. Let’s take a look at this. P6 Professional has a bar settings feature to “show bar[s] when collapsed, ” providing a high-level view of the efforts associated with deliverables at […]
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Activity IDs and Activity Names Best Practices In P6
When generating Activity IDs and describing Activity Names in Primavera P6 Professional, there are best practices that make for a better, more efficient, and understandable schedule. Understanding the proper convention for Activity IDs and descriptions for Activity names in P6 Professional is essential. You will often have to interface with the Activity IDs and Activity […]
Baseline Fundamentals in Primavera P6
A recent question from a user asked us to write a blog clarifying the difference between the project and the primary baseline. Here we explain the baseline fundamentals in Primavera P6 and how they work. The baseline in P6 functions like a ruler. A ruler is a straight strip marked at regular intervals to measure […]
Become a Primavera Scheduler by Learning How to Use P6
Have you been looking for a way to change careers and get into project management as a Primavera scheduler? Then learning to use Primavera P6 is an obvious must! P6 is powerful tool that project managers use to create comprehensive schedules and monitor progress throughout the life of a project. In this blog post, we’ll […]
Primavera P6’s Schedule Comparison Feature Explained
The Schedule Comparison feature in Primavera P6 Visualizer is great for comparing the differences between two projects or a project and its baseline. As a quick side note, Schedule Comparison used to be run as a separate P6 utility called Claim Digger. The Schedule Comparison utility in Primavera P6 Professional allows us to compare the […]
Multiple Float Paths in P6
How do you display multiple float paths in P6 to provide a more complete view of the probable pathways through network logic when there are several paths close in duration? Here we take a look at how to do this. The critical path is an important concept in scheduling a project. By most standard critical […]
Updating a Baseline in Primavera P6
Updating a Baseline in Primavera P6 A customer recently asked about what to do when scope is added to an ongoing project. Their question: “After I enter the new activities, how can I set new baselines for those activities without affecting the baselines of the original activities?” To review how a schedule is progressing, you […]
Change the Font and Color of Your Primavera P6 Schedule
A P6 Professional user recently asked how to change the font and color of the bars or banners in the schedule. Here’s how you do it. In Primavera P6 Professional, it is possible to personalize your schedule. P6 has features for changing the color and font of your schedule to give it your own look. […]
Actual Cost Calculations in Primavera P6
Actual cost calculations in Primavera P6 Professional do not always update during scheduling to match the resulting Activity % Complete values. That is a problem, so let’s investigate the P6 actual cost calculations. If you want the Actual Cost of an activity to update when the activity duration progresses, toggle on the resource assignments calculation […]
Using The Expected Finish Date in Primavera P6
Typically, schedulers think in terms of remaining duration for activities when progressing the schedule, but it is also feasible to specify an expected finish date and have P6 calculate the respective activity’s remaining duration. The physical percent complete type is the most accurate way to show progress on a schedule. However, it does require more […]