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Unit of Time: Days (not affected by hours)

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Ahmet KILICMember for 19 years 6 months
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Hi,

This matter is one of my biggest problems over P6. I am a planning engineer in construction business. We don’t prefer working with hours on our construction schedules, only days just like the old days in P3 :) I mean even if you select the unit of time as Days and no sub-unit (hours), the durations and dates are affected by the hours. I want to use the system in P3 but I couldn’t find a way to do it in P6 or I couldn’t find the setting. I would be very grateful if you help me and help others in my situation (construction people) :D
I am sorry if there was a thread related to this subject on the forum. I tried search function but it is not working at the moment.

Regards,
Ahmet
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    Alaa Al haj ·
    #1
    Dear Ahmet

    I don’t think this is possible
    You have to accept what ever in primavera p6
    The solution to your problem is to match working hours in calendar with Admin preference working hours

    After create your default calendar

    Go to admin …….. admin preference …………… Time periods


    Please let mo know if you want something else or more elaboration


    Regards
    Alaa Al Haj
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    Jay S ·
    #2
    Mine Works Fine

    Below setting User Preferances
    Time Units
    Unit of Time = Day
    Duration Format
    Unit of Time = day
    Hours Per Time Period
    Hours/day = 24
    Hours/Week = 168
    Hours/Month = 722
    Hours/Year = 8760

    Remember if you enter data as Hours it will be converted to day when you switch over etc.
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    Mk Tse ·
    #3
    For Plan Plan,

    What is the working hour of the calendar assigned to activities
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    Mk Tse ·
    #4
    there is no solution.

    there are two methods for alert: -
    1. De-link Duration % and remaining calculation
    2. Display decimal, if any demical place not is zero, "hour" come back
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    Wilfredo Jr. Flores ·
    #5
    dear ahmet

    al alab is correct. the settings in the admin preferences, user preferences and the calendar that you are using should be the same. ie 10 working hours per day should be applied in the admin, user and calendar. dont use 6 hours (in ramadan) in your calendar as it will affect your schedule.
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    Ahmet KILIC ·
    #6
    Dear All,

    Thanks for your help. I also tried admin settings and any other setting of the software but seems like there is no solution for my problem. In my opinion P6 has some annoying and peculiar new featues full of nonsense. Of course there are so many improvements (interface, ease of command, works faster, better reports etc.) but some features cause problems. For example if you are working on several projects on several diffrent countries (for instance you may have construction projects on Russia and on UAE at the same time) you come across with the calendar problem. In Russia you set Sundays as holidays not Fridays like UAE and also in UAE you have to set your working hours like 7-12 15-19 or something like that which is different from other locations. So you have to assign different calendars for each project. Also there is this global calendar nonsense which might be totally different from these project calendars. And in a situation like this you have strange summary total durations on WBS items.

    I just want to stop P6 calculating hours which is very impractical for construction planning :)

    Regards,

    Ahmet
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