{"id":27803,"date":"2021-12-15t10:55:51","date_gmt":"2021-12-15t15:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/www.deco-dalles.com\/?p=27803"},"modified":"2021-12-15t10:04:16","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15t15:04:16","slug":"plan-holiday-wreath-primavera-p6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/\/www.deco-dalles.com\/plan-holiday-wreath-primavera-p6\/","title":{"rendered":"plan a festive holiday wreath in primavera p6"},"content":{"rendered":"
back by popular demand is another festorial in primavera p6.\u00a0who says the lowly gantt charts can’t be fun & festive?<\/p>\n
in the spirits of the holidays (and of using project management<\/a> software in ways never intended), i’d like to present you with an advanced-level festorial<\/strong> on creating a holiday wreath (xmas tree<\/a>).<\/p>\n show off your skills, impress your project controls manager (or your planners) and make your contractors jealous when you\u00a0drum up this dandy gantt-chart wizardry on the p6 gantt chart.<\/p>\n sometimes it’s ok to be ridiculous – this is one of those times.<\/p>\n let’s get started, shall we?<\/p>\n 1.\u00a0create a new, empty project schedule with the name \u201cxmas wreath\u201d.<\/p>\n 2. on the defaults tab (project screen), set the default calendar to a 24 hour 7 days per week calendar (or something similar – best if it is 7 days per week). \u00a0open your project for editing.<\/p>\n 3. start by creating an activity that will be top of the wreath. set the duration to 25d. on the gantt chart, drag this bar out to the right, away from the data date by about 2 months and release. say yes to setting the “start on or after” constraint to ho-ho-hold it there.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 4.\u00a0add a new activity, 55d in duration. link it to activity top with the following relationship “ff+15d” (that’s 15d of lag). schedule the project.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n 5. we’ll use this activity-splitting visual technique<\/a> to help us going forward. let’s create 2 user defined fields to help us. goto enterprise -> user defined fields and create 2 new activity date fields:<\/p>\n add these to your layout.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n 6. add a new activity, 75d in duration, linked to layer 2 as “ff+10d”. reschedule.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 7. now to adjust the gantt chart settings. goto view -> bars. add a new bar, rename it “white”. set the timescale to “user dates”, and pick our xmas udfs as the start and finish date. on the bar style tab, make sure you pick white as the bar color.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n lastly, move this bar to down in the list of bars using the shift down button. you’ll want it to show just below<\/strong> the “critical remaining<\/strong>” bar. click ok.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 8. back on your activity list,\u00a0let’s put some dates on layer 3’s udfs. we’ll copy\u00a0manually input the planned start and finish dates from top into the layer 3 xmas start and xmas finish fields, like so.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 9.\u00a0copy layer 3 and paste it 2 times – as you do, in order to copy the relationships, uncheck the relationships option “only between copied activities”.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n adjust both new activities\u00a0to 85d and increase the relationship lag to 15d.<\/p>\n expand the white inside bar on these two by grabbing and dragging\u00a0the edges of the white bar outward (or edit the dates).<\/p>\n this is looking good!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n 10. pause – perhaps grab something delish to eat while celebrating all you’ve accomplished so far here. \u00a0perhaps something awesome like emoji gingerbread men? why not – it’s the holidays!<\/a><\/p>\n 11. ok, let’s finish off the bottom half. make copies of layer 3, layer 2, and top, using the same copy options as in step 9.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 12. let’s clean it up a bit. view -> bars. set the bar color to a nice deep green for both critical and remaining activities.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n also, turn off the relationship lines. then have a look.<\/p>\n <\/p>\ngetting started with the wreath<\/h2>\n
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decorating your primavera p6 gantt wreath<\/h2>\n