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Progress in Primavera schedule

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Fri, 2007-03-16 07:07
vasudevan Dhakshi...
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I am recently done a schedule in Primavera for a power plant project. I have sucessfully made the project schedule with assigning the base line. I got into a bit of trouble while entering the progress of each activity. I entered 100% completion for activity-1 and scheduled by pressing F9. The next activity date of start shifted earlier even though the start of that activity is after 10 to that of finish of activity-1.

any one can suggest to rectify

Vasudevan
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Mon, 2007-04-02 11:20
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Bijaya Bajracharya
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For S curve, check the discussion on http://www.planningplanet.com/forum/forum_post.asp?fid=1&Cat=2&Top=31037.

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Mon, 2007-04-02 09:06
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Hi all,

i have made a mistake in the data date entry and now the result is correct.

After entrering all my progress till date, how an i get the progress cure i.e. s-curve?

vasudevan
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Tue, 2007-03-27 08:57
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Mark Chapman
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Vasudevan,

Go to File and Project Overview and you should see the project start date and the data date. Hopefully you now know the difference between them.

mark
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Sun, 2007-03-25 04:09
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Charleston-Joseph...
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Vesuduram,

I think your link for each activity is not proper.

Please check and let me know.

Cheers,

Charlie
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Fri, 2007-03-23 10:00
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Bijaya Bajracharya
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Further to earlier discussion on Data date:

If all its predecessors are completed, the earliest date an activity can start is on the data date.

So it appears your data date is even earlier than the Actual start date of your activity 1. Instead of F9, if you had pressed the schedule button, P3 will generate a schedule report which will show you (in P3.out file) what irregularaties were there in your programme information.
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Fri, 2007-03-23 09:41
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Bijaya Bajracharya
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Data date is the last date progress was recorded in terms of actual dates, % complete, remaining durations, and/or actual quantities and costs.

Start date- which one? Early Start date is when an activity can start earliest. Late Start Date- the latest date when an activity can start without delaying the project. Actual start date - when the activity actually started.
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Fri, 2007-03-23 08:45
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vasudevan Dhakshi...
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can any one tell me difference between data date & start date?

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Sun, 2007-03-18 14:35
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ur relation is FS right? in ur case the predecessor is finished so the sucessor will come come to date date even before the finish date of ur predecessor i think u made mistake of not shited the data date cheak the data date !!! ( must be actual finish date or the date of actual entry)
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Sat, 2007-03-17 21:22
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Hi Vasudevan,

I suppose, the data date of your project is earlier than the Actual Start of this activity. The activity is finished, so it ignored by scheduling. As the activity does no longer exist, it’s relationships are ignored as well.

Regards

Dieter
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Sat, 2007-03-17 08:02
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vasudevan Dhakshi...
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i put actual start and actual finish bu a tick and also i put 10 daya lag in FS relationship.

Still i am getting the same result
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Fri, 2007-03-16 07:41
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did u tick actual start and actual finish( if the activity started and ended as planned ) or u put actual start and then put 100 % complted , and as mr. rodel noted did u put a 10 days lag on a FS relationship
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Fri, 2007-03-16 07:25
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Rodel Marasigan
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Did you put a lag of 10 on FS relationship to the next activity?
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