% complete Type for Milestones in P6

did you set an actual start or actual finish date  ? just sayng an activity is 100% complete does not make it complete you are still missing the actual start if it is a start milestone or an actual finish date if it is a finish milestone.

I did set an actual start and finish date for activities and manually changed the % to 100% for activities.

For Milestones, all one can do is change the finish (or start) date to finish. The moment I do this, the "physical %" complete box also gets greyed out and stays at 0% despite the MS being claimed 100%

Top 5 reasons for Primavera P6 Poor Performance

• If the Global Changes are carried out in the wrong sequence this will lead to further corruption and often irreparable damage to the data
• It looks like there are many ways to corrupt P6 database and often irreparable damage to the data if using Global Changes as well as if editing the database directly.
• Maybe it is due to a fundamental mis-use of the “easy-to-use” Primavera system. If easy and fundamental why so many mis-use the Primavera system?

Schedule Updating and Maintenance using Primavera P6

Activity and Project Status

• Activities reporting 100% complete without an actual finish date may behave differently in a CPM network than those with one.
• The data transfer system should not allow 100% complete and no actual finish date when % complete and actual finish dates are essential to the updating, instead a warning should be provided, otherwise the procedure is flawed.
• Microsoft Project avoids this issue by only using % complete as the updating mechanism.
• Another way to avoid this flaw is for the software not to use % complete as an updating mechanism such as Spider Project.

I hope you have not corrupted the data.

Good luck.

if you add the activity status as a column what does it say ?

Zoltan

Activity status says its complete.

Rafael,

I dont think the data is corrupt. The project settings I selected is "activity with steps" which I believe is causing the problem. (or a combination of "activity with steps" with something else that I am not aware of)

I thought P6 activity status reads either started or finished, but complete? To have a finish date and the "Finished-box" empty that would be a BUG in the software. Hard to imagine it could happen but I would not be surprised if this could happen in a P6 database under some data entry/editing. Maybe to fix the problem you have to edit the "Finished-box" and the Finish-Date in some sequence. I recall hearing about this bug before but not the fix details. It looks like Zoltan might be on the right track to help you find a fix. 

I do not use P6, I got the image on the web. 

Below is the snapshot from P6 highlihting the issue. Note that the  % complete is physical % complete which is not show.

(For some reason the image does not show up when i paste it - but %complete physical column shows 0% and activity status column shows completed)

I got another image, you are right, activity status for finished activity displays "completed", sorry for that I am not a P6 user but must deal with clients who have P6 so it is convenient to understand its behavior. Why not try unmark Finished Box on the status pane then change % complete to 100% and make any other necessary adjustment, then mark again the Finished Box.

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since activity with steps is already marked at the porject level, the only option that would work is adding a step to milestone and claiming it complete wihch seems a rather convuluted way of doing things. Hence wanted to see if theres a simpler work around to go about showing 100% percent complete in instances where "activity with steps" and "physical % complete" type is used in p6

Good to know.  Very weird indeed, I thought that by unchecking the Finish-Box you would be allowed to change %complete at activity level to 100% and this would do it; if activity with steps then 100% at activity level would flag finished for all steps.  

In such case I would rather not use the steps calculation mode, it is confusing and too convoluted.

Good Luck

Sam,

Would don't you the %complete type to Duration on milestones?

As a milestone has a zero duration and no resource can be assigned to it, what could be the reason to status a milestone as per a physical achievement? A milestone is no more than a date in a project, it is not an real activity

Alexandre

The bottom line should be:

• If P6 milestone has zero duration and no resource can be assigned to it, what could be the reason for P6 to allow to status a milestone as per a physical achievement?
• If there is no reason at all, why the software allows something that can create confusion?

Alexandre,

The preference was to keep all activiites to have same duration type so % complete could be reflected in column.

Nonetheless Good Point, I need to check if it wuld be alright to change the duration type on a 3 old project i inherited.

Rafael,

Although I agree with your comments, I cannot comment on the constraints of system. May be there is a reason why it is allowed that I am sure one of the mmore enlightened planners in this forum could educate us on.

Thx

That you can assign physical % to a milestone but you cannot update the physical % is nuts, makes no sense for the software to allow this. 

This creates confusion, SAD.

do not change the duration type just run a global change

where physical % complete is equal to 100

then duration % complete = 100

or 

where physical % complete is equal to 100

then activity status = complete

Zoltan,

a very good point; what you are suggesting will solve Sam's problem without disturbing his company's methodology

I will remember that for the next time

Alexandre

Thank you everone for the comments.

Zoltan, The global change does not work - 

where activity status = completed then physical percent = 100

There seems to be reluctance on changing the duration type on historical milestones esp. since they are complete wihch I do not disgree. for future milestones the thought is to add a step to a MS and claim 100% which is rather cumbersome and busy work. 

I know for certain that the first global change works.

then I guess the easiest way would be to filter for milestones and then a 1 step 

Can P6 do the following?

GLOBAL SEARCH AND REPLACE

1. Search: for Status = completed activity
2. Change: Step *(use wildcard) = complete(or whatever applies) 
3. Then after all steps are marked completed maybe the % complete can be calculated by the software to be 100% with a schedule or cost calculation run.
4. If the above does not works maybe you can filter activities for Status = completed and then mark as completed all steps in the Step Tab.

Good Luck.

Rafael,

It will not be able to as far as I can tell.

Zoltan's method would be the least tedious option.

Thanks all for the help and discussion on such a trivial yet critial item like % complete type.

glad I could help 

Now that you have a tedious but simple procedure it should just be a matter of creating a script.

If using Spider Project, if the user performs a task repeatedly, the user can automate this task using scripts. Script includes commands that perform individual tasks. Commands generally refer to certain items in program menus or dialog boxes.  

I find it easier to record scripts rather than using the script language, similar to recording an Excel macro. 

• So easy all is required is to know how to click the mouse.

When task recording falls short I complement it with the script commands I can pull down from a menu screen within the script editor.

If P6 does not provide for creating its own native scripts maybe you can if using external software such as Autohotkey, Mouse Recorder or any script/macro automation software of your liking. 

https://autohotkey.com/

http://www.mouserecorder.com/

https://www.raymond.cc/blog/make-your-computer-automatically-perform-tasks-for-you/

I tried long ago macro automation software but it worked following the computer screen so it might be the script cannot be transferred to different computer as when using more advanced software. It is like could take control of the screen, the mouse and keyboard but not the application menus or dialog boxes. I do not know Autohotkey or Mouse Recorder but are free and you might give it a try.  

Good Luck