is “in progress” (global) filter enough for this?

i have project (really big) and i need to set up a filter to see only activities that are on data date. without certain timeframe like dd-1m or dd+4m. as there are a lot of activities that have long duration as well as short duration. for example: if i put filter dd-5m and dd+5m this will also show what are ending (or starting) less than this period.
how you can help me to set a filter only for activities that are exactly on data date? all that started before and all that will finish after; basically all activities are currently go through the data date.

thanks a lot in advance.

bet regards

i recommend you follow the steps in the tutorial to provide some guidance. you can simply add another filter for the wbs.

sun, it looks like both of those will work. i think you’re suggesting the 2nd one is simplier, to which i agree.

dear michael,

here’s my stupe question:

during with parallelly fitter of “status is not equal to completed”
what is the different between “start date whthin ps to dd+1m ” and “start date less than dd+1m ” ?

thanks a lot.

regards,

sun

well, we recommend you update your project regularly, but how often is up to you. if you update to feb 10 and move the data date to feb 10, then your 3 week lookahead will start from feb 10. if you want to build the lookahead from today’s date, just change dd to cd in the filter equations.

where start is within range of “13-jan-18” and “26-jan-18”. you could also try to use the current date (cd) (today’s date), which would be:
where start is within range of “cd” and “cd+2w”.

that’s a tough one. there’s no easy way that comes to mind. once you update a bunch of activities and then reschedule, the entire schedule is different. so going back to uncover activities that were updated is difficult. my recommendation here would be to
1) ensure you make a backup copy of your schedule before you perform an update.
2) use a tool like change inspector to compare the updated schedule to previous version to see the difference. claim digger (now called schedule comparison) could also work. but i very much like change inspector.

i have updated my programme for this week’s progress update, please let me know how i can filter the activities that i have touched or updated within this period only. thanks a lot

elgart

i hope my question is clear.

thanks for the tutorial it is very easy to learn from your screenshots.

1) i would like to know how can we develop 5 weeks rolling schedule?

2) it will be very grateful if you also teach how to develop a manpower report based on activity codes. (meaning i have zonal split in activity code and would like to get a report based on zone)

thanks in advance

andrew. for this you could create a filter like: where actual finish is within range of (dd-1m to dd). this will show all activities that finished in the month before the data date. it’s a dynamic filter as well. try that.

your tutorial is great! it helped me a lot. however i was hoping you could help with something else. the client for our project also likes to know what activities were completed within a month of the data date.

i can create a filter that shows all the completed activities but not one that will only show activities that were completed within a month. do you know how to create this?

femi,

you are very correct. i do hope he reads and understands that training is very important.

regards,

ako

sayeed,

i think you really need to follw a complete primavera p6 course/training to be able to prpare a master schedule for a project that big.

read this an an advise.

ako

i got the same message from saeed, and i told him the best thing he can do. no planner will like to release his schedule just like that.

planning profession is not a day work. to become a competent or outstanding planner, many years must have been spent in the field of planning.

i’m sorry sayeed, i have no project schedule that i can share. most of the time, the schedule belongs to a client, and it’s not usually in their best interest to share a schedule that cost them a lot of time and money to create. however, ask around on linkedin and you might get a different response, but ensure you are gracious in asking.

thank you very much for your help.

my company has won a contract of a shopping mall & i am asked to prepare the master schedule.

can you help me sending some example program’s with some set of activities.

thank you in advance.

regards,
saeed

saeed,

my e-mail is phemmywuyi07@yahoo.com

thanks

thank you very much for your instant reply.

i would really appreciate if you can send me the screenshots.

thank you very much again.

go to the filter, click on add, then rename your filter as look ahead 3m from dd & look back 1m from dd.

click on add, and select all the following.

under the parameter add, “start”, under is, add “is within range of”, under value add “dd-1m”, under high value add “dd+3m”

add another row, under parameter add, “activity status”, under is add “is not equal to”, under value add “completed”.

then click ok and you have your result.

i hope this help.

thanks.

if you want the screen shots, you can send me an e-mail

how to get a 3m look ahead schedule 1 month before the data date.

please help me… i am very new to primavera.

thank you very much in advance.

follow the step above. replace 3w with 1w.

thanks!
dhyaa jibber

many thanks prashant!

sorry for the late reply. thanks for your insight . your articles & comments always plays a big role in better understanding of primavera

regards

prashant

pashant, typically, you would not use the baseline, but rather the updated schedule. since the updated schedule provides a forecast based on what actually happened, then you’ll want to report on anything that is starting late or early in the lookahead report.
michael

plz let me know for three months look ahead schedule whether we should use the baseline for predicting the 3 months look ahead or we should use updated schedule as on date

kindly advice
regards
prashant

i am trying to see all the activities coming within a certain time frame say from 11th aug to 27 aug. the data date is 31 july so cannnot take dd as reference. if i apply in progress filter it will take activities from 31 july to 11 aug which i dont want. so how to see all the activities whether starting, finishing or in progress during specific dates as mentioned above?

the approach i am using is
all of the following
start is less than or equal to 27 aug
finsh greater than or equal to 11 aug

please tell me if that is right and captures everything becuase my programme is very big and i could not verify everything line by line.
thanks

where remaining early start is within range of dd to dd+3w

the advantage of this filter is:
it will include the activities which will start or in progress during the 3 weeks period

gone through all the post, you have explained really well.however am facing a problem creating filter for activities occuring in a speciific time frame.

the conditions which i want to satisfy are as below

1) activities which are incomplete
2) activities occuring in a specific timeframe eg:between january 14 to march 14
3) it should include activities which have started before jan 14 and ending after mar 14 and they pass though the above mentioned timeframe.

what am trying to do is i have got a baseline schedule with baseline resource plan and budget.however in the exisiting baseline i want to see if i change the cost of 世界杯时间比赛时间 for a specific time frame what will be the impact on the overall project costing

try this:
// where start is within range of 10-oct-13 07-nov-13
or
activity status equals in progress //

this says show me the activities that are starting between oct10 and nov 7 + include any activities that are in progress.
m

for a 3 week look ahead with data date say 17 oct, i am using filter parameter as mentioned below.

// where start is within range of 10-oct-13 07-nov-13
and (any of the following)
or activity status equals in progress
or activity status equals completed
or activity status equals not started //

but my filter is not giving an activity which starts on 02-oct-13 and having duration 30 days. i have tried giving the activity id also, neither it works. could you please sort out the problem for me please.

thanks so much for the great work you are doing
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i’d like to thank you so much for your great job, i have one question, since i have some activities has been delayed for more than one month, let say started on june 25th, 2013 but still not close and we update the progress in weekly basis, how we can show this activity in our current moth schedule for aug.2013. usually i use filter: start before dd & the activity status not complete; which bring alot of delayed activities from the beginning of project, but i need to show only the on going activities within aug.2013.
one more thing, can i use the spotlight feature to show the on going activity for specific period.

in the interactive kindly include the final screen shot after applying the filter so that i can confirm (myself) the correctness(…i could still see the wbs summary bars!)

debasish,
this is a bit more complex and i think you are asking to see a list of projects that are currently in-progress and would like to see also what stage they are in. start on the projects page and build a filter there. you might filter on a range of data dates (dd) – where data date is within range of cd-1m (which is current date minus 1 month) to cd+1m (current date + 1 month). try this to see a list of current progress in progress.
pt

hope it helps.

regards,
naveen talla

amir

thank you

thank you michael.

everything in this tutorial still applies. but where you see “dd+1m” change it to “dd+3w”. there you go!
michael

i would like to know how will we send a 3 weeks look ahead report ????i mean how do we create one ????

thanks in advance !

regards ,
osman

thanka alot

hi bob,
thanks for the feedback.
what shows up in the “is” dropdown depends on what is in the previous dropdown (parameter). it seems like you may not have a date field set or showing in the parameter dropdown. in the tutorial, we set “start” (which is the activity start date) in the parameter field. i would check the parameter dropdown to see if a date is set there. let us know if that helps.
warmest regards,
michael

bob

thanks for the great feedback adil!