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P5 Activity dates - adjust to act like P3 ?

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Martyn CoatesMember for 19 years 2 months
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Hello

I’m new to P5 and trying to get it to run in days like P3.
Can anyone tell me what type of duration and percent complete to use.

Fixed duration and units/time?

Also I want the project in days but the hours assigned to resource in (hours).

It seems there is no setting to have an activity in days and budget in hours assigned to it.

When I put in an origional duration for an activity the dates are incorrect.
It seems the duration has a time assigned and the activities are all starting at different times of the day - all I want is a number of days. I dont want time.

please help !

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    Arnold Puy ·
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    Hi Martyn, Try to go to Edit --> User Preferences --> Time Units tab, under Units Format, change the "Units of Time" from Day to Hour. In Durations Format, change the "Units of Time" from Hour to Day. You can use the default: "Fixed Duration & Units" Regards, Arnold
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    Martyn Coates ·
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    Arnold - afraid I tried this and the duration is incorrect. i have a 7 day a week calendar and have dates as following.

    ES 23 Nov EF 16 Dec

    origional duration is showing 10 days, clearly it is 23 days between these two dates.
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    Arnold Puy ·
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    Hi Martyn,

    I guess the problem is that, in your Admin --> Admin Preferences --> Time Periods tab, try to check your Hours/Day, try to change it to 8. Maybe it is 18. Otherwise, there is something wrong with your calendar.

    Just try this.

    Regards,

    Arnold

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    Martyn Coates ·
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    Hi

    I set everything as told to do so and seems to be OK.
    I noticed any successor activity always stats the day at 8.30 instead of a default activity at 8am. problem I think will happen is links all the way down to add up to a whole day - eg 16 activiies stating 30 minutes later the next day. It will knock the scheule out by a day.
    This is madness - why cant it just work in days? if you say it is a day then it uses a day and no more or no less?

    seems primavera is going off on a tangent here.
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