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Primavera P6 Professional - Added Functionality to Keep in Mind
Regarding the functionality to add comments about relationships, I am not suggesting that every relationship line in your P6 schedule requires comments added; however, in some circumstances it can be a handy functionality. The comments column can be added in the relationship details tab (predecessors/successors or relationships) and then the comments required can be added. Perhaps you have a lag on the relationship, or, like below, you want to confirm a relationship. Relationship comments are plain text and can be up to 250 characters long.
Safran Risk v22.2.0 - New Release
Safran Risk has released v22.2.0. Read about all the exciting new features.
October 18, 2023
Safran Risk has released v22.2.0. Read about all the exciting new features.
New Features
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It’s now possible to login to Safran Risk using Azure Active Directory
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Advanced impact option that lets risks impact activities and costs in new ways. For example, it’s now possible to spread an absolute risk impact over multiple elements. You can also limit the number of mapped elements that will be impacted each iteration.
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Column picker that lets you select which columns to show.The ability to add a number of new columns that lets you see the distribution values and more as columns.
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If you’re using Risk Mapping for inputting activity duration uncertainty, it’s now possible to use all distributions here. You can also use absolute and relative.
Enhancements
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Activity Duration Uncertainty can now be set to any distribution in the Risk Mapping tab
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Advanced Impacts lets you spread impact over activities or costs and limit the number of impacted elements
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Schedule data can now be seen as columns in the Risk Mapping tab
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On a multi-user database the project is now opened in Update Mode (instead of Exclusive) after an import
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New columns in the Project Risks tab: Schedule Distribution (Pre andPost), Cost distribution (Pre and Post), Post-Mit Probability, Impact Independently, Notes, and Mappings Count
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Activity Duration has been added to the Risk Mapping Excel import/export. This will allow setting duration uncertainty in Excel.
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Resource tab added to Risk Mapping so that resources for each activity can be seen
P6-Reporter – Project Team Self-Serve Dashboard Reports
If your team’s struggling with time-consuming manual updates, there are tools that can help you automate the process. Emerald’s P6-Loader allows you to use Excel-based update sheets to load updates into your progress file. Another one of our tools, TAPS, facilitates updating P6 using activity barcodes (TAPS Classic) or process updates using TAPS Mobile from your phone. These tools make it quick and painless to get accurate updates into your P6 files. Your team will then have more time for analyzing your schedule instead of wasting time with tedious updating.
Timesheets in the Oracle Primavera Cloud
OPC contains Timesheet User, Timesheet Supervisor and Timesheet Approvers. Timesheet Users can create timesheets, log time against activities on projects, and submit them for approval. Timesheet Supervisors can create their own timesheets and enter time. They can also create timesheets for the resources assigned to the projects for which they are the timesheet supervisors. They can enter time on behalf of the resources and submit their timesheets for approval. Timesheet Approvers can create their own timesheets and enter time. They can also create timesheets for the resources for which they have been assigned as the timesheet approver. They can enter time, submit, approve, or reject their resources' timesheets.
Scheduling in the Oracle Primavera Cloud
Recovering Deleted Primavera P6 Data - A Client Crisis
A client of ours had just this sort of scenario.
The user reached out to us in a panic. This user had just been given increased access in P6 and had renamed an existing UDF. He realized it was renamed improperly and instead of changing the name of the UDF, he deleted it. The project level User Defined Field (UDF) had data assigned to many of their projects. They needed to recover it and ensure the values were reinstated on their projects. We were able to recover the data in less than and hour and a half.
Schedule Updates Using Oracle Primavera Cloud (Prime) Out of the Box
The work plan receives updated status on the tasks. The updates for tasks can be entered in the task list window as well.
The Connection Between the Work Plan and Schedule in Oracle Primavera Cloud
The Work Plan screen planning board provides easy sequencing for your tasks. Create tasks and then drag and drop them onto the planning board to build your work plan. Change the hand-off mode that is selected. Enable activity bands to assist with assigning tasks to activities. Easily move the planning board time period to previous or future periods. Application of quick filters to the tasks is available as well as grouping them by best fit or by company to organize the view.
Oracle Primavera Cloud - A High Level Schedule Preview
By clicking on Activities from the Schedule icon in Oracle Primavera Cloud, you can reach the upload template from the Actions menu in that window. You can also choose to enter your project schedule information manually.
Oracle Primavera Cloud - A High Level Preview of Project Scope
If you’re not using the default PBS structure, you can set up a custom PBS structure. The PBS structure commonly reflects a hierarchical structure of the components required for a project. You can use a PBS in initial planning to organize scope items.
Ensuring Accuracy When Reverting Changes in Primavera P6 Using P6-Loader
When they reorganized, all the prefixing for several BUs needed to be brought into alignment with the reorganized BU structure. This involved moving their EPS structure around and updating the prefixes on calendars, codes, resources and roles. I had started moving the structures to accommodate the changes and updating the prefixes with P6-Loader, but I also did some updating directly in P6. I had completed roles and was partially through resources when the client realized their reporting may be effected by the changes. They wanted to revert all the changes I had made. While I did have several P6-Loader change files that I could use to revert the changes I made using P6-Loader, I wanted to be sure the manual changes I made were also restored.
P6-Auditor v5 - New Release
Our latest version of P6-Auditor has a new look and feel making auditing definitions easier and faster to build.
May 28, 2023
Our latest version of P6-Auditor has a new look and feel making auditing definitions easier and faster to build.
New Features
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New audits - UDF value, project, activity and code assignments
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Users can be configured into categories. For example, P6-Internal, Standard, API, or by department, or by whichever criteria is needed. The User Category column is shown in all reports where there is a user column, and it is possible to filter by it.
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It is possible to configure UDFs and code changes to be reported with the corresponding project, activity or resource record
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Added the ability to easily limit the range of events retrieved from the server - for example, for the past 5 minutes, 15 minutes, etc.
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UI changes - the reports are now all shown on the left side of the auditor web application and are grouped by type/subject leaving more space for the reports on the right side of the page
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The EPS auditing now includes changes made to all records in the PROJWBS table, and it includes a column that shows the type of object that was changed
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Added the ability to freeze columns. You can freeze 1 to 5 columns and those will always be visible when scrolling.
Enhancements
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All reports now run faster, and event reports run much faster than before
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Filters have been improved - when possible, multiple options are shown for the user to select from
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Reworked the OData implementation on the server, allowing much better control over the columns shown in the client, as well as other improvements
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Layouts now work properly with audit reports
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Column order that makes sense across all event reports
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Profile improvement - the teams of a profile are shown in the profile list and a button that lets you save a profile directly is visible when a profile has changes
Restoring Deleted P6 Data - Never Happens Right?
A solution for common cases of accidental data deletion in Primavera P6
Accidental deletion of important data is something that happens. Everyone has done it at some point.
In Primavera P6 EPPM, some of the most common cases of accidental data deletion are:
- Deletion of the wrong resource
- Deletion of the wrong project
- Deletion of the wrong WBS node or nodes
Safran Risk v22.1.0 - New Release
Safran Risk has released v22.1.0. Read about all the exciting new features.
May 3, 2023
Safran Risk has released v22.1.0. Read about all the exciting new features.
New Features
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Automatic Report Package Generator - Functionality to generate a report package that contains a number of output chart images, a Word report, and an Excel report. The report package can be run and customized from the analyze tab.
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The UI of the sensitivity analysis tab has been updated. It now also allows you to run sensitivity against a schedule summary and against the schedule types duration and start date.
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Cost Module - It's now possible to have more than one top node and to set the type for each top node.
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The import of external files now allows three options when updating an existing project: overwrite, update, and append.
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Distribution Graph - It's now possible to set the target to the value of a user field. This allows you to set up target dates for all the activities in the schedule.
Enhancements
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Hammock to Hammock links are now allowed by the Safran Risk scheduler.
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Mode added to distribution graph information.
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Recent projects are now opened with the same access level as they were opened last time.
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Added option to grouping in the cost tab to see the whole path in the summary ID field.
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Added Total Float, Free Float, and Calendar to the Activity Information tab in Risk Mappings.
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Risk Mean Start and Risk Mean Finish columns added to the schedule.
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Added option for image size for all the output charts. This allows for consistent size of the generated images regardless of the state of the Safran Risk window.