Critical Path

Find out which project has the latest finish date, in the projects view put this data as a Must Finish By date on each of the 6 projects, hit F9 and you should get a programme critical path.

a critical path can be detected by filtering the following comand longestpath EQ yes.
as for me now if i may ask a question .my friend , i wish to ask again some specific and nore challenging question regarding the use of primavera.
i am stuck on a stage where i want to find the difference between the variance at early start and the variance at early finish. all i need to know is how to perform column subtraction in primavera?
i tried using the converter to excel and do it there yet i am facing a proplem since MPX does not copy the primavera activity ID. what shall i do?
yours always , wael el hajj

MPX?

yes MPX stand for microsoft project.

El Hajj,
why are you using MPX converter to export project data fromP3 to Excel? use export to Lotus 123 or to Dbase3 format instead (dbf format if your project exceeds 2500 activities)
I think it would be much easier to use Global Change and create a calculation formula to get what you want.
maâ salama
Alexandre

thank you alexandre for your help , the problem wit export has been resolved, yet the more you know the deeper you get involved. as an IT project expert i ask you to help me out is resolving the issue of multi user on a single project. it is either that i can’t gasp the concept or something must be done that i am not aware of. i very much thank you if you enlighten me.
merci, ourvoir.

yâ waël,
P3 is multi-user by essence; that means you will store the project files on a server to which the users have access: several people will be able to open the same project at the same time, one person only will be able to edit ONE PARTICULAR ACTIVITY at the same time
You will ahve to run Netset to enable your distant users to access the project system, look at P3 help:
"The Primavera Network Administration program (Netset) is provided with P3 for managing the user database in a
multiuser network environment."
choukran

alexandre my friend you ahve been very helpfull and i can’t thank you enough for being their at my assistance. but can netset be used over the internet since the users on this project are very distant apart and i am thinking of a vlan that connects the users. is it possible to use primavera over the Vlan .? i have not tried it yet.
de rien!, il n’y a pas de quoi

waëz,
I don’t think Netset can be used over the Internet; at the time P3 was marketed, Internet was not as used as today.
If you need to give remote users access to the project chedules, you should upgrade to PM6.
If you only want to enable remote users to LOOK at the schedules, use P3 Web Publishing Wizard to create a Projects Web Site that can be accessed thru’ the Internet; but the schedules will be displayed in html files.
It is also possible to send electronic status sheets to your resources, containing activities to be updated; the resources will open the sheets, fill them in and send back to you; you need Primavera Post Office companion apps to do this, check your P3 cd-rom for that.
Alexandre
Where did you learn French?

thank you alot for that advice but the matter that wories me now if i want to adapt your method of web publishing my schedual is the concept of secrecy that i am worried about. if i publish it over the web then every one can know my future activities and the client could be very mad .... can that be resolved?
i might ask the people incharge of software purchase to buy the PM6 licence and train on it all over again.
Nous étudions le français à l’école, je suis libanaise bonne nuit et Merci beaucoup.
wael

waël,
Publishing projects via Web Publishing Wizard will make your projects available for people who do not have P3 but are working in the company premises; you could give access also to people outside, ask your IT guys about DMZone (a part of the company network that is heavily protected against viruses and violations).
enta loubnani? râni dziri
Alexandre

yes i am lebanese and a bit proud. well i have a question, if i publish over the web then all the internet users will have access to my data. how is it possible for only a selected group of people to read my project?
finally i did not understand what is it you really mean with "râni dziri"
yours truely wael

yâ waël,
you would publish as html pages but give access on the company intranet/extranet only, i.e. for authorized users; refer to your network administrator
"râni dziri" I was born in Algiers, Algeria, and I consider myself as Algerian, eventhough a french citizen
maâ salama

thank you for enlightening me over that matter . i really apreciate your help. it is nice to know that you believe that you are from algiria i really like to visit algiria some time i the very future. i assume that in spring it is the best time to enjoy .
yours wael

alexandar my friend ...
veiwing critical path over one project is not being processed over P3 using longest path eq yes.
how can that be done in other means??