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Is it possible to split activity bars?

Chris FrankMember for 20 years 1 month
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Previous versions that I have used wouldn’t allow the spliting of activity bars, which it allows in Microsoft Project. Can p5 do this??

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    David Kelly ·
    You can "split" using suspend/resume or an activity specific calander, but not under resource levelling.

    Primavera has always resisted the temptation to allow multiple instances of the same activity number as in MSP. While this feature may help planning engineers, its a cost engineering nightmare. I am optimistic that Primavera will continue to resist imnplementing what I see as a mistake.
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    Kym Lesinski ·
    David,

    Your point is valid however there are always exceptions. Splitting activity bars would help me with KPI analysis, therefore becoming quite usefull on a number of my projects. What I’d say to Primaver is it’s always good to have options, make it possible and give us the choice to use it or not.

    Kym.
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    Tu Huynh Van ·
    David,

    - I agree, we can "split" using suspend/resume but only for activities in progress, others we can not.

    -Should using an activity specific calander,

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