Activity with 1 day duration in P6

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Zahid Rehman 👤 Member for 15 years 2 months

Hi Gents,

 

Even I am years late on this platform but I am gald to get a solution of the above problem. few days back I was facing the same problem & I read all post regarding this but in vain. Finally one of my Kind net friend sent me solution which I am going to share with you guys....hope , it will work out for you guys,

 

1- Start of the Project to be at 1st working hour of the day,for example to be at 8.00am(from user preferences).
2- Try to show the duration by decimal to detect the problem(from user preference).
3- Adjust the data date hour to be at the end of the day or at the beginning of the day.
4- Check the calendars working hours.
5- The project finish date to be finished at the end of the working day.
Hope the above will help you.
 

Regards

Zahid Rehman

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Mark Anthony Alonzo 👤 Member for 16 years 1 month

ANYONE WHO CAN HELP ME REGARDING STATUSING 1 DAY ACTIVITY? WE DID NOT FINISH THE ACTIVITY AND WILL BE CONTINUED NEXT DAYS. 90 PERCENT COMPLETE AND 10% REMAINING KINDLY ASSIST ME.

 

THANKS

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Amit Parmar (PMP) 👤 Member for 15 years 7 months

Hi Raviraj,

in admin preference>Time periods please check if "use assigned calendarto specify the number of work hours for each time period" is checked ?

Cause if its not checked then Primavera would change the work hours acccording to the admin preferences Time Periods.

The problem in activity 2 must be coming because it is picking work hours from Time Periods and not Calendar assigned to it.

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Regards

Amit Parmar

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Ammar Abbas 👤 Member for 15 years 3 months

i think once you change admin preferences to 8 hr/day instead of 10hr/day it will change all the activities and all the schedules, if in user preferences units of time is days.. also calender for the activity should be 8 hr/day.

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Ammar Abbas 👤 Member for 15 years 3 months

i think once you change admin preferences to 8 hr/day instead of 10hr/day it will change all the activities and all the schedules, if in user preferences units of time is days..

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A D 👤 Member for 19 years

My Question is,



Y activity with 2 days or more considers USER preference, while activity with 1 day duration considers ADMIN preference.



Is this correct.



Now, is my question clear this time?

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Dieter Wambach 👤 Member for 19 years 4 months

Raviraj

There might be a misunderstanding: Entry in Admin Preferences "Default Duration for new ..." means: If I just add a new activities and don’t manipulate the duration, it will have that duration indicated under the Admin Preferences. If I enter 1d for duration, the Admin Preferences "Time Units" will be used or - if different - my user preferences will be used.

Good luck!

Dieter

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A D 👤 Member for 19 years

Well, I found d solution (In fact, Dieter Wambach helped me out from d problem), but it’s very funny.



U can try by creating sample project on ur system of just 4-5 activities.



1. Set Admin preferences --> Default Duration as 10 hours per day.



2. Set user preference as 8 hours per day. (Just do it and Dont ask y?)



3. Set calender as 8 hours per day.



4. Set Duration for Activity 1 as 2 days. (it will consume 16 hours and NOT 20 hours as set in admin preference).



5. Set Duration for Activity 2 as 1 day. Now this will make u crazy. Say, activity started on Monday 8.00am, then it will finish on Tuesday 10.00am.



It will consume 10 hours because u have set that in Admin preference, even though u have entered duration in days.



Dont u think so, it shud take 20 hours for Activity 1, as set in Admin preference.



This is really crazy, as its a problem for activity with 1 day duration only.



OR am i confused??



Hope so, what i said is correct.



Plz reply.

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Rony Roberto 👤 Member for 18 years 8 months

Ravi,



The problem you encounter is your activities start after few minutes more (0830hrs?)on your calendar starting time (0800hrs).



You can verify this by showing the minutes time on your column.

Edit-->User pref.--> Dates ; Check the show minutes.



Hope this help,



Rony

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Rony Roberto 👤 Member for 18 years 8 months

Ravi,



The problem you encounter is your activities start after few minutes more (0830hrs?)on your calendar starting time (0800hrs).



You can verify this by showing the minutes time on your column.

Edit-->User pref.--> Dates ; Check the show minutes.



Hope this help,



Rony

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Rony Roberto 👤 Member for 18 years 8 months

Ravi,



The problem you encounter is your activities start after few minutes more (0830hrs?)on your calendar starting time (0800hrs).



You can verify this by showing the minutes time on your column.

Edit-->User pref.--> Dates ; Check the show minutes.



Hope this help,



Rony

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A D 👤 Member for 19 years

Ok, thanx guys for all the help.



Its still not solved.



What I hav to prepare is now only level 2 program, so not worried much manipulating soem workhours in calender.



Lets see what happens when contractor submits his program.



Cheers,



Ravi

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Dieter Wambach 👤 Member for 19 years 4 months

Raviraj

I’m almost sure, that the reason is the default duration for new activities or a copy/paste with the wrong basis.

Switch you durations to "hour", then check the default duration.

Dieter

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A D 👤 Member for 19 years

Its all 8 hours.



problem is with day activities having 1 day duration only.



If i insert activity with 2 days duration, then its consuming 16 hours.



Help plz


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Dieter Wambach 👤 Member for 19 years 4 months

If you change to 1 day now?

Did you check your default duration for new activities?

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A D 👤 Member for 19 years

Hey guys,



I have changed 1 day duration to 2 days.



Now, its consuming 16 hours, which is correct.



i m really pissed off with this.



O P6 gurus, plz help me out.


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A D 👤 Member for 19 years

Sorry for teh late reply.



but as said earlier, my admin preference and user preference are set on 8 hours/day.



This problem is in all programs.



Let me check by entering new activity



:-|

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Oliver Melling 👤 Member for 19 years 1 month

As you know, P6 works in hours in the background, so if the ’1 day’ duration was entered when the admin preference was 10 it would consume 10 hours.



If your going to change it to 8, it won’t pass down the chain so to speak, you will have to go through each activity re-entering the duration of 1 day (which is now 8 hours).

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Dieter Wambach 👤 Member for 19 years 4 months

Raviraj

This situation I never had. By the way: What is the default duration for new activities? (Admin --> Admin Preferences --> General: 10h?)

Did you add new activities by copy --> paste and by this you copied 10 hours as a duration?

If you’ll change to 1 day duration, what happens?

Regards

Dieter

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A D 👤 Member for 19 years

Thanks Dieter for such a quick response.



I have checked both: Admin and user preferences



It’s 8.0 hours per day.



Issue is, it’s a problem with ativities having 1 day duration only. For all other activities, its OK.



Help plz

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Dieter Wambach 👤 Member for 19 years 4 months

Sorry I forgot: Then you’ll have to check the durations - fill dow will work.

Dieter

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Dieter Wambach 👤 Member for 19 years 4 months

Raviraj

Check under:

1. Admin --> Admin Preferences --> Time Periods: Hours per day = 10? change to 8. or

2. Edit --> User Preferences --> Time Units: Hours per day = 10? change to 8.

Good luck!

Dieter

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