{"id":33635,"date":"2016-02-09t12:55:51","date_gmt":"2016-02-09t17:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/www.deco-dalles.com\/?p=33635"},"modified":"2019-10-18t11:03:03","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18t15:03:03","slug":"remove-actuals-primavera-p6-schedule-how","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/\/www.deco-dalles.com\/remove-actuals-primavera-p6-schedule-how\/","title":{"rendered":"how to remove actuals from a primavera p6 schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"
though not a widely recommended practice, there are times when one might want to de-progress or remove actuals from a primavera p6 schedule. some reasons for wanting to return a schedule after weeks or months of progress updates to its state at project start are:<\/p>\n
a downside to removing actuals from\u00a0a schedule is that the \u201cnew\u201d schedule will need to be progressed again to the last reporting date. this means all periodic updates carried out on the last schedule have to be repeated with same data as before.<\/p>\n
this quick tip will show how to remove actuals from a primavera p6\u00a0schedule, returning the project to its planned values at project start in 7\u00a0steps<\/strong>. it shouldn’t matter what version of p6<\/a> you have. we\u00a0assume prior knowledge of how to use p6’s\u00a0global change<\/a><\/strong> facility. assuming we have the schedule in figure below from which we want to remove all traces of actuals with the following additional columns visible in the layout aside the usual suspects: performance % complete<\/a>, original duration, actual duration, remaining duration, actual labor units, actual nonlabor units & actual total cost.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n all the columns listed above will be used to confirm at the end of the tutorial if we have returned our schedule to its original state at project start.<\/p>\n in the projects<\/strong> view, select the open project and click on the calculations tab.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n in the calculation tab, ensure that the link budget and at completion for not started activities<\/strong> checkbox is ticked and then select the reset remaining duration and units to original<\/strong> option button.<\/p>\n this step is required so that when we change the status of all our activities to not started<\/strong>, the remaining duration<\/strong> for our activities will be changed to same values as original duration<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n
\nstep 1 – project calculation tab setting<\/h3>\n