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Completion date still a mystery

Haresh JayanthMember for 20 years 1 month
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Dear Rodel,

I have tested my program in three different system. In 2 system i am getting the same completion date of 24th July 2011 , but in one system i am getting the completion date as 31st July 2011 , with -6 days float.

As per your earlier posting, i have changed the following:

a) Changed the default calendar.
b) Went to import - Change - Calendar from Keep Existing to Update existing.........
c) Match the working hours in all the 3 calendar same.
d) Made all the calculation changes , and any other changes same in these three systems.

But all my efforts have been failed, since in one system , i am getting a different completion date......

Any Good advice please....

regards,

Haresh Jayanth

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    Haresh Jayanth ·
    Dear Rodel,

    Yes , you are correct.......Delay in my program is due to the change of calendar at the time of importing............

    Now i have a minor problem:

    a) When i am importing "i am changing the calendar option from Keep Existing to Update Existing".....But this option is not working.....

    My calendar are not getting updated and thus it is generating negative floats.....even if i select "Update Exising option"....Kindly clarify the reason why my calendar is not updated , even if i select this option????????

    thanks rodel.

    regards,

    Haresh


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    Rodel Marasigan ·
    Haresh,
    When importing XER you have 3 levels of options that P6 will allow you to update.
    1) Activity level allows planners to update:
    ->     Activity data
    ->     Activity Relationship
    ->     Activity Resource Assignment
    2) Global level allows planners to update:
    ->     Resource Code
    ->     Resource Code Values
    ->     Roles
    ->     Resources
    ->     Shift Calendar names
    3) Project Level
    ->     Activity Codes Values
    ->     Activity Codes
    ->     Calendars
    ->     Work Products & Documents
    ->     Relationship to external Projects
    ->     Etc…
    ->     Etc…

    In regards to your issue I suspect that you are using global calendar assigned to a project. This means that you cannot update existing global calendar whether is used of other Projects or not because there is no option of updating Global Calendar to prevent overwriting if this is used by other Projects or set as a Global default calendar. There are two ways to solve your problem:
         One is to define and use Project calendar instead of using Global calendar so you will be able to update in case there is a change on the calendar settings.
         Another way is to define and create a different name or unique name of Global calendar to make sure that it does not exist on the other system.

    Best Regards,
    Rodel
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    Haresh Jayanth ·
    Thanks Rodel,

    You are always my problem solver.

    regards,

    Haresh

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