How To Quickly Identify Behind Schedule and Over Budget Activity by Indicator U

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How to quickly identify Behind

Schedule and Over Budget activity by
Indicator UDF in Primavera P6
In Primavera P6, we can quickly identify behind schedule and over

budget activity by using graphical indicator in User Defined Field.
I will show you how to do it.
Supposed that we have a project which has baseline. After update

progress, we can show these column the see whether an activity is behind
schedule:
BL Project Finish : Activity finish date from Project Baseline

Variance – BL Project Finish : Duration between BL Project Finish date
and current Finish date. Calculated as BL Project Finish – Finish

Now we will create Indicator.
Go to menu Enterprise -> User Defined Fields.
Click Add to create new.
Enter Title and Select Data Type : Indicator

Close dialog.
Go to menu Tools -> Global Change. Click New.

Enter data as in below picture:
Click on Change button. Then Commit Change button
Click OK and Close.
We will show the Indicator column.

Now we can quickly see what activity is behind schedule:
We can do in similar way for the Cost.
We can show these column the see whether an activity is over budget:
Budget At Completion : Cost from Project Baseline

At Completion Total Cost = Actual Total Cost + Remaining Total Cost
Variance – BL Project Total Cost : is calculated as Budget At Completion
– At Completion Total Cost

Create User Defined Field : On Budget Status:
Create new Global Change with below information:

Click on Change button. Then Commit Change.
We will show the Indicator column.
Now we can quickly see what activity is over budget:


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Author: Khuong Do
Khuong Do is a Project Planner in Civil, Transportation and Oil & Gas
Industry. He has worked as a Primavera Consultant Specialist since 2006 . He
holds a Civil Engineering degree and a Bachelor of Information Management
System. Now he is working in Petronas RAPID project, one of the biggest
Refinery and Petrochemical complex, in Pengerang – Malaysia.
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UDF in Primavera P6”
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March 16, 2017 at 3:17 AM
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March 16, 2017 at 6:47 AM
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Kartik Rao
July 21, 2017 at 5:08 PM
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Tran Duc Viet

July 28, 2017 at 2:35 PM
Dear Mr. Khuong,
Can we assign UDF function on WBS? For example above, I also want to
assign one column “On Status Schedule” in WBS field and It is also
indicator status of Variance. Please guide me.
Thanks,
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Khuong Do 

July 28, 2017 at 4:44 PM
Hi anh Việt,
At WBS level, value is summaried from activities (only certain type of
UDF can be summaried like: number, date…)
UDF with indicator can not be summaried to WBS level.
So it is impossible
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Tran D. Viet
August 9, 2017 at 1:48 PM
Cảm ơn anh Khương.
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rantotumangger
September 16, 2017 at 11:19 AM
Dear Mr Khuong Do,

how to show in primavera report for progress last week, so we can see
progress last week and progress this week.
thank you
Ranto

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