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Lecture 5

This document discusses several Primavera P6 features for project scheduling and visualization, including: 1. Linking work packages to create a connected project schedule with a critical path. 2. Scheduling options like retained logic, progress override, and actual dates that control how activities are scheduled and adjusted during execution. 3. Layouts that allow saving and switching between customized views of the schedule, including different columns, timescales, and bars. 4. Filters that enable viewing only a selected subset of activities, such as in a look ahead plan for a specific time range.

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Lecture 5

This document discusses several Primavera P6 features for project scheduling and visualization, including: 1. Linking work packages to create a connected project schedule with a critical path. 2. Scheduling options like retained logic, progress override, and actual dates that control how activities are scheduled and adjusted during execution. 3. Layouts that allow saving and switching between customized views of the schedule, including different columns, timescales, and bars. 4. Filters that enable viewing only a selected subset of activities, such as in a look ahead plan for a specific time range.

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• Interlink Work Packages

After Activity Link-ups next step is to connect Project work-Packages to make Complete Project
connected so that Primavera p6 will develop Real Project Critical Path.

• Scheduling & Scheduling Options

Press F9 ………..> Schedule window………..>Before pressing Schedule Button

 Make sure Project start date

 Make sure scheduling Options


Retained Logic : While Scheduling your work program under this option will restrict Activity relationship

Progress-Over-Ride : Under this option scheduling of your work after during execution will be more
flexible towards activity relationship

Actual dates : the most Flexible in Execution phase and adjust planning-execution accordingly

Once It is done

Press Schedule button on window and get your work plan on p6 with defined duration and critical &
non-Critical path.

• Critical Path Method

Excel Solution sheet is attached

• Layouts

Primavera P6 Provides multiple layout feature to easily switch in required one on single click.

You can add different columns

Change timescale configuration

Add required Bars

Now you want such templates with different project information so that whenever your project
manager is asking for a certain layout how you can present
Step-01 : Add required columns & Change timescale as per requirement (if any)

Step-02: View ………….>Layouts…………>Save as ……….>Name the layout ……….>save

Step-03 : How to switch layouts

View …..>Layout ………..>OPEN……………>Window ………>User ………>Click on your Layout and

Layout Feature is not only applicable on Gantt Chart but also

1. Activities screen
2. Project screen
3. WBS screen
4. Resource Assignments screen
5. Tracking layout screen

• Filters

After you’ve created your Primavera P6 schedule, there may be times when you want to
view only a selection of the activities in it; particularly if it is a large schedule.
Primavera P6 have dynamic feature of filter by.

View ………….>Filter by ………..> Window ……..> Customization


When you structure filter it must follow your requirement as p6 provides you

 Parameter
 Condition
 Range/Values
To Process your requirement

Look Ahead Plan :

Once you Develop Project Schedule you need to extract Weekly/Monthly Most
near future plans to Site Team and consultant to have more realistic execution.
Such plans are called Look ahead Plans.

We can filter our data within required range of Timeline using Filter by Option.

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