I recently received an email from one “Project management Professional” pertaining to original duration field in Primavera. The query is as follows:
I have an activity named “Survey Works”, “Substructure levelling”, “Installation of Rocker”, “Steel lining concrete” etc. Now my basic query is for each of the activity specific calendars has been fixed like one below:
Survey Works – Standard work calendar (8*5) (5 days working with 8 hr fixed time period).
Substructure Works – Standard work calendar (8*5) (5 days working with 8 hr fixed time period).
Installation of Rocker – 22 hrs work calendar for 7 days
Lining Concrete – 18 hrs work calendar for 7 days
- When i start in fixing original duration, relationships for these activities and then schedule, why activities assigned with 22 hrs calendar stops at specified period at 5 PM and escalates to next day. Logically if i specify “1 day” the activity should start from 8AM (first day) and should end at 8 AM next day taking 22 hrs working period. But for me if I specify 1 day as duration and schedule activity starts at “8AM” and stops at “5 PM” . If I change manually from “8AM” to next day “8AM” >>>>>>>>>Surprising , Duration is not set at 1 day, now showing 3 days. How can this happen?
2. Now if i change my duration to let’s say from 10 days to 12 days, Why does not my remaining duration does not gets synchronized with original duration(means still my remaining is 10 days, i expect that it should change to 12 days). Is it a bug with product?
With respect to the above query, solution was given and it worked:
For query 1 the reason why all the activities are ending at fixed time period is because Time -period properties is set for default timing in primavera web. Check this in Primavera-web.
After logging in to primavera web application navigate to -> Administer ->Application settings:
After Application settings window is open -> click time period and check this setting.
Try this 100% this will work.
For query2:
In Primavera client navigate to project window click on calculation tab and check the option named “Link Budget and At completion for Not started Activities” and try.
