Resourse assignments in P6 Ver 7

Great !!!

 I have to remove the resourse assignment & reassign the same resourse again which is very boring and time consuming task.

I am not sure the above is an absolute requirement, perhaps you just have to make available the column for units/time in the resource assigment tab of your activity(es), then you shall be able to modify it directly (not sure but nothing is lost if you try) not a big step but a step in the right direction if it works.

I would not give up on the idea that what you are doing manually can be done with a global change as it is a simple request, just time consuming for hundreds of assigments, and vey boring indeed.

Beste regards,

Rafael

Hi NilKamal

Run a Global change to change the Duration Type of the activities containing the resource to "Fixed Units".

Then

Run another Global Change to Change the Budgeted Units/time to the new production rate. This will change your durations as required.

Units = Units/ time * Durations

You have to fix one of the variables to get a result.

**--"Drive Activity Date" option for the resource to be ticked(checked ON)

PS: The procedure become complex for activties with actuals statused and would not yield required results as changing form one duration type to another overwrites the actuals and can not handle the scenarios suggested by Vladimir and Raphael

Regards

Shareef

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Nikamal,

In the following link you will find a video of how in Spider Project I would do it using filers and formulas.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRFsNaDljtk

I had the suspicion P6 cannot mimic in any way, not even with SDK,some of the most basic functionality of Spider Reference Books. But your requirement is so elemental that you should be able to mimic what you already are doing in P6 with simple filters and global changes.

I tried Vladimir suggestion and it came out that if filter and formulas are easy the use of Reference Books for such simple requirement is even easier. I can generate as many scenarios and save them under separate reference book versions or I can use a single reference book and modify it using filters within the reference books but also can transfer the data to selected multiple jobs. Some bad habits learned from other software where options are limited are difficult to change.

Best regards,

Rafael

Hi Nikamal,

what you want to achieve can be easlily done in Spider Project. If you will change resource assignment productivity for certain type of work in one place (reference-book) everywhere where this resource is assigned to activities of this type its productivity will change and new activity durations will be calculated.

Potential workaround - to create the schedule based on amounts of work to be done and assigned resource productivities in Spider Project and expost the resulting schedule to P6 if this is client requirement.

P6 has no necessary functionality.

Best Regards,

Vladimir

Nikamal,

I use Spider Project and not P6 but used it before for a limited time.

Now I believe I understand your question. From what you say I am understanding P6 applies the current default value to newly created activities and that same as in Spider you can change the value individually or in groups. That you are looking for a way to apply the change to the selected group.

In Spider I would use UDF [user defined field] to identify and filter the assignments in question and then with a formula I would change the value to the selected activities assignments. This I can perform while in the assignments Gantt instead of using the activity Gantt. Note in your software different name apply to the views and tables and maybe there are differences on the close equivalent you call "Global Change".

Once you have identified the activities you can re-apply the formula [or global change] to change the value as many times as you want with a single click of the mouse.

Maybe you can mimic my suggestion within P6 but it is up to you and how P6 works, perhaps others can help with the idea to see if it works in P6.

Wish you good luck.

Rafael

Hi Nilkamal

The easiest way would be to use SDK. The other way I could think of is... delete the said resource from the resource list which will inturn delete all its assignments on the 50 activities which you have mentioned. Then create the same resource again with the new production rate and select all the 50 activities and assign the resource to all the 50 activities with one click.

Regards

Shareef

Nikamal,

The Max Units/Time from the resource library is the same as the limit of resources per time for the entire project and not for individual activity. Say if you assign the same resource to multiple activities with different budget units, the total units per time for that resource will be compared to that max units/time, which means that you may know that the resource is over allocated or below limit. The limit may be usefull too when performing levelling of resources.

Use the Global Change to change the units/time of the activities affected.

Hope this will help.

Nilkamal,

Is this what you are looking?

To be able to define different production rates (productivity) to a single resource and being able to drive activity duration with production resources of different resources each with its own production rate so that if you change the resource productivity the activity duration is adjusted accordingly?

after adjusting productivity on Activity 2 resources as shown we get

Note that resource A can produce different things say CMU installation and SY of cement plaster at different production rates. The following link will show you the video for you to see the change as it happens.

http://youtu.be/YU5E-ijy_kY

The idea is not to merely change productivity manually but also to be able to use skills so that depending on the availability and priorities the software assign the available resource and adjust the activity duration depending on the available resource(s) individual production rates.

Material resources represent consumable resources  so if you have 50cm of gravel it will be consumed until depletion while installation of 50cm of gravel is done by regular resources [labor/equipment] and the 50cm in this case represent volume of work.

Best regards,

Rafael

Hi Nikamal,

what is the purpose of this assignment?

Activity duration does not depend on material requirements per work hour. If activity will be longer of shorter the volume of work will become larger or smaller than 50,000m3 and that"s all.

Best Regards,

Vladimir

Hi, Nilkamal,

I am also new in planning and working on P6v7. Would you please tell me where did you enter/set the production rate, coz I didn’t find any column or tab for this,

Thanx & Cheers

Tanveer

My friend my concept is very much clear, I didn't about PRODUCTIVITY I asked Nilkamal where and how did he enter/set the "PRODUCTION RATE". Coz I didn't find any column, field or tab for this.

Thanx & Cheers

Tanveer

Nilkamal Parikh

Better make your concepts clear because I have not found anything like productivity in Primavera P6 yet.You first enter resource,assin its cost/Unit,assign calenders if any,assign max units per time,assign effective dates and shift calenders if any..... and after that you assign that resource to your activity.There you put the required resources in Remaining unit/Time column.This was a summary and there are reference mannuals easily available if you goole it. Check this one

http://www.ce.metu.edu.tr/~ce736/P6ReferenceManual.pdf

Regards

In Spider Project you can define activity physical volume (amount) of work and assigned renewable (people, machines) resource productivities. Activity duration and the speed of work and material consumption will depend on total productivity of assigned renewable resources. There is not such thing as material resource profuction rate, it depends on assigned people and/or machines production rate.

I don't know about productivities in P6. There is no such field at all.