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How To Trim Activity IDs Or Activity Names In Primavera P6 || Primavera Tricks || dptutorials

In this tutorial, let us learn how to trim activity IDs in Primavera P6. Consider a sample project like this. For example, let us target to remove the “A” letter in Activity IDs in this project. 1. First you go to the menu bar and go to Tools, select Global Change 2. Click on “New” button. 3. In the "If" section leave it blank and go to “Then” section, In Parameter select “Activity ID”, In Parameter/Value select “RightString(Parameter,#)” 4. Then click on this field to give the “Parameter” value as “Activity ID” and “#” value to “4”. 5. Click on “Change” button. 6. P6 will now show you a preview of the changes. Click on “Commit Changes” button and then click on OK. 7. Now you can see there is no “A” letter in your Activity IDs. Similarly, this trick can be applied to Trim Activity Names and other text fields in Primavera. For Personalized detail learning, write to dptutorials15@gmail.com If you found this video valuable, give it a like. If you know some...

Excel Trick#50 - How To Create Thermometer Chart In Excel || Excel Tips || dptutorials

Thermometer chart can be used for displaying the percentage progress, it can be used for better visualization in the dashboards. This is the sample chart that I have already developed. Let us get into the tutorial now to learn how to create a thermometer chart in Excel. In this example, let us consider that we have Plan vs Actuals for 10 people, and let us calculate the total of the achievement and then % achievement, so we have got 70% achievement out of 100%. • Select the cell C16, go to insert tab, go to charts section and click on insert column chart and select 2D column chart. • Delete the chart title and X-axis. • Right click on the bar, select format data series and under series options, set the series overlap to 0% and gap width to 100% • Right click on the vertical axis, format axis and set the minimum value to 0 and maximum to 1 and close. • Adjust the width and height of the chart to look like a thermometer shape • Go to insert tab and insert a oval...

How To Remove Relationships For Multiple Activities In Primavera P6 || Primavera Tips || dptutorials

Generally if we want to remove relationship for any activity in Primavera P6, Select any activity, go to activities tab and go to relationships here you will find both the Predecessors and successors, you can click on remove button to remove relationships. But What if we want to remove relationships for multiple activities. consider this example, You have a group of activities like this in a WBS, which need to be removed all relationship. You can select all activities,right click, click on Assign and then Click on either Predecessor or Successor Then select all activities and click on Remove button. Now you can see all relationship has gone. For Personalized detail learning, write to dptutorials15@gmail.com If you found this video valuable, give it a like. If you know someone who needs to see it, share it. Leave a comment below with your thoughts. Add it to a playlist if you want to watch it later. *************************************************************** Read ...

Excel Trick#49 : How to Create a Checklist using Conditional Formatting

If you are maintaining a To Do list in your personal life or at workplace, if you are tracking this regularly and if you want to make it as a checklist, here in this video let us discuss how to do this in Excel. Let us consider an example like this We have list of activities in column B and Status in Column C In column D, if we want to insert check marks for those activities that are done., we have to enter a formula to apply conditional formatting. In cell D2, enter the formula as =If(C2="yes",1,0). So this would give us the result as 1 if the activity is completed and 0 if it still pending. Drag the formula till the end. Now, let us apply conditional formatting to this column D Select the Cells Range, In the Home Tab, from Styles group, click the conditional formatting and select New Rule.  Under Select a rule type section: select the first one, format all cells based on their values Under Format Style: select icon sets Click on green Icon & from the dr...