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    Claim Digger Baseline V.S Revised Schedule Comparison-2019 update

    • Posted by Hany Ismael, Msc, PMP
    • Categories Planning Using Primavera
    • Date January 25, 2019
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    Update 29-Jan-2019: If you are using oracle primavera 8.4 and later, Claim Digger see bottom of this article Schedule Comparison.

    Claim Digger is one of primavera software built in tools:

    P6 Claim Digger is very useful tool to find difference between two versions of schedule or Baseline Schedules V.S Revised Schedules using primavera P6 without any additional software required.


    First let me explain what is the benefit of using Primavera P6 Built in tool Claim Digger (now known as Schedule Comparison in the new primavera p6 versions). Mainly the The Clam Digger is comparing two schedules and find out what is the difference between two of them, Differences are identified as per the following terms:

    1- Total Float

    2- Calendar Name

    3- Free Float

    4- Critical Activities

    5- Activity Name

    6- WBS Name

    7- WBS Code

    8- Primary Constraint Type

    9- Primary Constraint Date

    10- Actual Expense Cost

    11- Remaining Expense Cost

    12- At Completion Expense Cost

    13- Budgeted Expense Cost

    14- Planned Finish Date

    15- Early Finish Date

    16- Early Start Date

    17- Actual Start Date

    18- Late Finish Date

    19- Late Start Date

    20- Planned Start Date

    21- Actual Finish Date

    22- Original Duration

    23- Actual Duration

    24- Remaining Duration

    25- At Completion Duration

    26- Actual Cost

    27- At Completion Cost

    28- Expense Percent Complete

    29- Price Per Unit

    30- Budgeted Cost

    31- Remaining Cost

    32- Activity Percent Complete

    33- Duration Percent Complete

    34- Physical Percent Complete

    35- Units Percent Complete

    36- Actual Labor Units

    37- Budgeted Labor Units

    38- At Completion Labor Units

    39- Remaining Labor Units

    40- Activities Added/Deleted

    40.1- The following Activities have been added to the project

    40.2- The following Activities have been deleted from the project

    41- Activity Code Assignments Added/Deleted

    42- Relationship Differences (Predecessor / Successor Relationships added or Deleted)

    43- At Completion Units

    44- Budgeted Units

    45- Remaining Units

    46- Remaining Units Per Time

    47- Actual Units

    48- Budgeted Duration

    49- Remaining Duration

    50- Resource Assignments Added/Deleted

    51- Activity Steps

    WoW… Do not you think it is an amazing tool ??!! , It will spot any variance between two versions in the schedule.


    When you should use Claim Digger, Applications of using This tool :

    1- When you receive a new version of the time schedule from the contractor, Then you should use Claim Digger to check what has been changed on the schedule.

    2- When you Receive an update of the time schedule, you should check that nothing changed from the baseline original duration, relationships and constrains.

    3- Before submitting your schedule to the client after new revision or update, just run fast check to ensure that noting went wrong.


    How to work with Claim Digger Step by Step :

    1- open claim digger from primavera p6 tools menu as per the following photo:

    Primavera P6 Menu
    Primavera P6 Menu

    2- Select the Revised schedule and the Project Schedule Baseline (The two versions of the schedules you want to compare) as per the following photo :

    Revised Schedule V.S Baseline Schedule
    Revised Schedule V.S Baseline Schedule

    3- Click on Advanced Options to choose what is the output values you want to see in the report.

    Note: you can choose Group Report by Activity in the advanced setting if you want primavera to group all the terms i mentioned above (what ever you choose from the 51 term mentioned above) by activity.

    Claim Advanced Options
    Claim Advanced Options

     


    4- Choose the report format (HTML or CSV)

    The HTML format will be opened by any explorer such as Firefox, chrome or Microsoft Internet explorer

    Digger options
    Digger options

     


    5- Click compare to run the Software

     

    Compare two schedules
    Compare two schedules

     


    6- Sample of Claim Digger Reports:

    A- HTML Report

    Compare two projects schedules HTML Report
    Compare two projects schedules HTML Report

     

    B: CVS Report

     

    Compare two projects schedules CVS- EXCEL Report
    Compare two projects schedules CVS- EXCEL Report

    Claim Digger Not Available Under Tools Menu in P6 Professional 8.4 and Later (Standalone):

    Oracle Primavera announced that starting from version 8.4 claim digger is not available under tools menu and it has moved to Visualizer application under Schedule Comparison.

    You can find the Visualizer from the tools menu as per the following photo:

    Then you can find the Schedule Comparison from the menu in the following photo:

     

    Oracle mentioned the following cause of this action:

    P6 was installed with the packaged SQLite database. In this Standalone configuration (P6 versions 8.4 to 15.2) using SQLite as the database, this the expected behavior with respect to Claim Digger. Claim Digger is not available in this database option.

    P6 Professional Standalone (r8.4-15.2) using a SQLite database supports all of the Project Management Functionality of P6 Professional except for the following:
    – Update Baseline
    – Claim Digger (Schedule compare)
    – Job Services – Jobs cannot be scheduled. However, the user can use the Windows scheduler to invoke the command line interface to import, export, and run batch reports.
    – Risk Analysis
    – Any existing Java-based integration components developed by the customer using the P6 Remote Integration API (RMI) is not supported with an SQLite database

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    Hany Ismael, Msc, PMP
    Hany Ismael, Msc, PMP
    Hany Ismael is the founder and CEO of Planning Engineer Est. in Egypt. He has started his career back in 2003 as a site engineer, technical office engineer, planning engineer, planning manager, and finally planning department manager where he has been involved in several mega construction projects in Egypt and Saudi Arabia. In 2016, he established his own company in Egypt “Planning Engineer Est.” Hany gained his MSc degree in project management from Liverpool University-UK 2013-2016, PMP certified from PMI-USA 2010, and BSc Civil Engineer Tanta University-Egypt 2003. Hany provided more than 3,500 hours of planning and project management training on his website planningengineer.net, YouTube channel, and offline courses since 2011. He enjoys teaching project management in simple and practical way, and he developed several planning tools, techniques and courses.

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      3 Comments

    1. ASIFAKHTER
      November 18, 2013
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      It is so rewarding when a qualified professional like you takes the time to give back to the planning field in this manner—and I feel very lucky to be the one receiving the benefit of your project management and planning experience through your website.

    2. Omar Hali
      March 23, 2014
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      Thanks a lot for these explanation and please keep on

    3. nma1367
      May 16, 2018
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      Double hats-off for knowledge sharing… its very helpful.

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