SETTING DECIMALS IN PRIMAVERA P3 HOW TO
How does it know how to do that, is it just because I named this calendar that way? Let’s go to calendars to find out. Well, for this calendar it translates it into 8 hours and for this calendar it translates it into 12 hours. So if I have two activities and I type in 1D, what does that translate that into? What I want you to understand is how Primavera knows the definition of a day. When I’m displaying my duration in days Primavera is constantly recalculating that field based on the calendar that I’ve chosen. Here’s how Primavera calculates that, it takes our static 40 hour duration and divides it by twelve hours per day to calculate a 3.3 day original duration.
SETTING DECIMALS IN PRIMAVERA P3 FULL
Because now with the first three days full we’ve only got ? of a day left. So what we end up with is more hours in a day and we’re spreading that 40 hours less thin, a little bit more thickly in the beginning of the week and it ends up calculating a duration of 3.3days. Primavera takes the exact during in hours and it is now trying to fill those daily buckets to the top. What happens when I change the calendar? If I change it to something with more hours per day and more days per week, this happens. Let’s say I have a five day activity which translates to 40 hours in terms of an 8 hour by 5 day work week. So what is happening, well I’m going to show you in this picture. Primavera doesn’t edit activity durations for you when you change your calendar. So what we can see here is that the actual hours for this activity is 1280 hours and I want to stress here that when I change calendars, this value doesn’t actually change. We’re going to Edit->User Preferences and I’ll change my duration’s format to hours.
So why don’t we look at this situation again in an hourly view. Primavera P6 actually doesn’t store durations in days in the Primavera database – it stores that information in the hourly format. I want to explain first what’s going on, and the first thing we need to understand is how durations get stored in the Primavera database. How can we keep those durations set the same so that when I change the calendar it doesn’t change those durations? Why is that happening? -I’ve been poking in the Plan Academy Support Community and I see a lot of people are struggling with this. It goes down significantly it goes down from 160 days to 107 days. If I change its calendar from 8 hours by 5day work week, to something that has different hours per day and perhaps different hours of the week like 12×6, watch what happens to the duration. How I look at this activity – D&G Engineering – 160 days. Hi, I am Michael from (Plan Academy), thanks for checking us out. That’s what we’re going to investigate in this tutorial. Why does Primavera change an activities duration when it changes its calendar?