Importing Resources Assignment From Excel To P6
Importing Resources Assignment From Excel To P6
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Abdel Rashid Why does primavera read resources imported from excel as Labour although it is defined in
Nosair primavrea as material and specified in excel in resource type as material as well
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i want to import resources from excel to activities in primavera, every time i import i find in
Joined: 5 May 2009 the price/unit field this symbol 0^ and primavera deals with it as labour
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Arab Emirates, Water i came to know that becuase i found that the budgeted cost equals budget units * price/unit *
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that means that the price/unit is actualy price/hr although i have defined this resource as
Material and its unit of measure as each in both primavera & the excel sheet i’m iporting to
primavera
Can someone help please
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Tue, 20130416 04:16 #1
Kenny Monroyo
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Joined: 14 Apr 2013 I am new in Primavera 6 and I encounter problems same with Abdel, I search in google and
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Posts: 3 I come with this forums. I think this conversation is incomplete and not solve the exact
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problems thats why I would ask what would be the best solutions. My problem is same that
when I am importing resources assignments from excel to p6 it appears that all of my
resources(materials and non labor) change to labour (you can tell by the symbol). It is the
same resources that exported before and I try to use in other activities. Maybe this time I
can expect for the best answer.
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Kenny
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Sun, 20130414 14:56 #2
Kenny Monroyo To All Planning expert,
Offline I am new in Primavera 6 and I encounter problems same with Abdel, I search in google and
I come with this forums. I think this conversation is incomplete and not solve the exact
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Posts: 3 problems thats why I would ask what would be the best solutions. My problem is same that
Groups: None when I am importing resources assignments from excel to p6 it appears that all of my
resources(materials and non labor) change to labour (you can tell by the symbol). It is the
same resources that exported before and I try to use in other activities. Maybe this time I
can expect for the best answer.
Regards,
Kenny
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Sat, 20101113 11:26 #3
Salar Al Zubaidi Good Day Arnold Puy and Good day all,
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Joined: 10 Apr 2007 I am using P6v7.0 and I have made a resource "Labor" with Unit/Time 1, Price 1, as
Posts: 29 weighting factor, I have done my job in regarding the project weights depend on discipline
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Works, GPC United cash flow i.e. mobilisation is 1.3% of the project Procurement is 47.88% of the project
Arab Emirates etc,... now I need to upload these percentage in the programme that’s why I have create
this dummy resource to weight the activities, bearing in mind that I don’t’ have any other
resources been used for this project, it’s the weighting resource is the primary, my intention
is to gain an accurate percentage of actual vs. plan in weekly basis using the software and
not use the excel.
To cut the story short, I have exported the resource to excel format and have made the
changes to the activities (Budgeted unit) as per the exercise that I have made before based
on the disciplines mentioned above, my first question is that the sum amount of the
overall weighted activities in not 100% why is that! ,and when I import the changed figures
to the programme suddenly the overall programme duration has changed and some of the
activities original duration changed also and can't return back to its original duration even
when try to write it manually, please let me know what can I do, does anyone have the
same issue happened to him before.
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Mon, 20100927 09:17 #4
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Offline I JUST WENT THROUGH YOUR POSTS QUICKLY AND AM FACING THE SAME PROBLEM
WHEN AM IMPORTING THE BUDGETED UNIT FROM EXCEL, ANYWAY I THINK IN A WAY
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Posts: 4 OR ANOTHER WE CAN DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.
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Building, GPC Jordan WELL I GOT OTHER ISSUE AM USING MULTIPLE RESOURCES AT THE SAME ACTIVITY
WHICH SHOULDN'T WORK SIMULTANEOUSLY SO I WAS THINKING HOW TO SOLVE
THIS. I TRIED RESOURCE ORIGINAL LAG AND START AND FINISH DATE I CALCULATED
EVERYTHING ON EXCEL BUT AFTER THAT I NOTICED THAT SIGN (*) ON THE RESOURCE
ORIGINAL LAG AND START AND FINISH DATES WHICH MEANS I CANT IMPORTE TO
PRIMAVERA 6
IS THERE ANY WAY I CAN FIX THIS ISSUE
I WILL REALLY APPRECIATE YOUR HELP.
REGARDS,
DHAFER
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Mon, 20100927 07:05 #5
Sehari i'm planner i work in gas oil from 2006 , i think P6 very esey than P3
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Mon, 20100927 09:18 #6
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Tue, 20100427 08:15 #7
Abdel Rashid Arnold,
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I’m using P6.1
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Joined: 5 May 2009 and the best solution i’ve found is to select all the activities you want to assign the resource to
Posts: 7 then assign the resource to them at once (in Primavera) then export to excel and use the
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excel to specify the Budeget units only then import again to primavera and it will recognize
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Arab Emirates, Water the resource as material and update the budget unit as you put in excel and calculate the
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budget cost as per the price/unit that you defined earlier in primavera
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Tue, 20100427 07:52 #8
Arnold Puy Hi Abdel,
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Rodel Abdel,
Marasigan Sorry for the late response, I was having my dinner.
I heard about that issue in P6.1 release but the work around is to define another material
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resource then global change and it should fixed your problem.
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Australia, PetroChem Resource Id Name = x
/ Oil & Gas then
Resource ID Name = xx
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Tue, 20100427 07:27 #10
Arnold Puy Hi Abdel,
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Tue, 20100427 06:34 #11
Abdel Rashid Rodel,Arnold,
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My problem have not been solved
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I’ve tried whatever you’ve been saying but it still there
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Posts: 7 If any of you try this he will get the same:
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2 assign this resource to any activity
3 export resource assignments to an excel file
4 assign this resource to another activity (in excel "take resource info copypaste so you
make sure nothing have been changed") and specify Budget units
5 import this file to primavera
6 check the activity you assigned the resource X to
7 you will find the resource is assigned as labour (you can tell from the resource symbol)
and the price/unit is 0^ even if you tried to recalculate assignment costs
show the budget cost for this resource ( it should equal bydget units because you already
made price/unit = 1 before) but you will recognize that it equals = budget units * 8 (which is
working hours/day)
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Tue, 20100427 06:31 #12
Arnold Puy Hi Rodel,
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Offline In my opinion, each Resources has its own price/unit, now, if the user assigned price/unit = 0
then Primavera will pick up the cost equal to zero. If a resources has a multiple rate, as far as
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Posts: 1147 I know, there is an " * " (Asterisk) next to its price/unit.
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GPC United Arab Now, if you have two or three rates in one resource with different price/unit, Primavera will
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Maybe you have some additional information on this and possibly share to us.
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Arnold
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Tue, 20100427 06:18 #13
Rodel Arnold,
Marasigan It is possible if Primavera pick up the rate correctly and not zero rate or both rates are not
zero.
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Tue, 20100427 05:52 #14
Arnold Puy Hi Rodel,
Offline I know it’s a multiple rate. However, I’ve encountered this kind of problem but it works fine
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Tue, 20100427 05:46 #15
Rodel Arnold,
Marasigan The meaning of "^" in price/unit is multiple rate available, user need to select which one to
use first before Recalculate Assignment Costs if 0 is selected by Primavera (i.e. "0^")
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otherwise cost will remain zero.
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Tue, 20100427 05:38 #16
Arnold Puy Hi Abdel,
Offline Your query was answered by Rodel. With regards to this " 0^ " in the price/unit field for the
Joined: 25 Apr 2007 assigned resource, all you have to do is to go to Tools > Recalculate Assignment Costs" and
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Tue, 20100427 01:54 #17
Rodel Abdel,
Marasigan Have you assigned Roles or cost accounts on the define materials or labor? Or does it has a
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Posts: 1516 Note: Import doesn’t recognise any of those defined in Resource unless you are using SDK
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Tue, 20100427 01:44 #18
Abdel Rashid Rodel, I know all of this & i already defined this resource as material in the right field
Nosair but when i wanted to assign this resource to some activities using excel import it was
imported as labour not as material and it doesn’t consider the price/unit i previously defined in
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the right field in primavera. Instead, it give me this symbol 0^ in the price/unit field for the
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Mon, 20100426 04:09 #19
Rodel Abdel,
Marasigan Defining Labor, NonLabor and Materials is separate table in the database. You cannot define
those using export/import function in excel unless you are using excel SDK to define resource
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type. Same thing on Rate per resource cannot be updated using export/ import function. To
Joined: 25 Oct 2006 make sure that user are using the right field to update using export/import function all fields
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