HELP P6 Calendar

Civ
I don’t really understand your quetion, so a little general reply.
Modifications of calendars in general: Grant the right to change general calendar to very few persons. Give "speaking" names to calendars, e.g. 5d_10h_PhilippineHoliday. Have a discussion for the default calendar because all summary calculations are based on this one.
To change activity calendars for many activities, use "Fill Down".
Hope that helps
Dieter

hi,

use of more then one calender not advisale in P6 By Paul Harris.

If you want to change All activites claender there Should no harm.

Shahzad
This I cannot support.
We use different calendars. There is no problem if you are aware of some details:
- Floats, durations in summary lines base upon default calendar, don’t display them.
- Float of an activity is based upon the activity’s calendar
- Lags depend on your scheduling options.
Different floats on a longest path are misleading, so don’t show them. Primavera promised an improvement, e.g. an additional column with a float based upon the project calendar.
Regards
Dieter

Hi Dieter

Thanks for your reply.
Really i was not aware of this setting ..

i will try in next project if it will work for me.


Thanks

Shahzad

gotta love Primavera’s "Features".

this is an issue i’ve run into previously.

In particular where i have a job where i have engineering and construction activities. More often than not these 2 are on different calenders which is a big issue when displaying durations in days, weeks or months (usuaully days) as we all know what happens as a result of the user settings :P

in this situation i ended up displaying hours instead anyway. it’s ugly but there is easy solution here.

I’m aware of the float issue with regards to this. This greatly impacts the critical path if you are using the = or less than 0 days critical path option. P6 can actually miss the critical path as a result of calender changes. I’ve activities on the the critical path deviate between 0 days and 1 day even though they drive each other. this deviation is a result of calender changes. i do hope Primavera solve this soon.

- Peter.

Peter

Primavera internally calculates and memorizes everything in hours. But if you’ll display 0h in days it will be 0 independent from settings. A change between 0 and 1 means that there is no zero-float. Display your durations with decimals and it will be evident.

Regards
Dieter