Fix Issues When Promoting Layouts and Filters in Primavera P6 With P6-Loader
Recently, when working with a client who was combining several Primavera P6 databases into one, we discovered some interesting things with respect to layouts and filters.
Articles in Category: Primavera P6
How to Fix This Error in P6 v24 When Updating Baselines
In the latest version of Primavera P6 v24, there have been major changes to updating baselines, including a visual overhaul and some new functionality. However, some of our clients have recently noticed that their baselines weren’t updating correctly. While the Job Services logs showed that everything was updating properly, in reality users weren’t seeing any changes when they actually went into their projects to check if their baseline changes were reflected.
Baseline Permission Changes in Primavera P6 v24
If you’re a longtime user of Primavera P6, you may have noticed that there’s been a change to the ability to update your baselines.
Why Give Meaningful Names to Filters and Layouts in P6?
It might not seem like a big deal to give meaningful or unique names to your filters and layouts in Primavera P6, especially when they are your own user filters and layouts. After all, you made the filter and likely know what it’s for. However, having an abundance of unnamed filters can quickly become an issue.
Are EPS Level Activity Codes Worth the Hassle?
EPS level activity codes can be created in Primavera P6 to be available to projects under a designated EPS. While this can help with the amount of activity codes at the Global level, you may want to carefully consider whether you want to add activity codes at the EPS level, as they can pose problems for you down the line.
New Functionality in Primavera P6 Professional v23.10
Range Copy/Range Paste, Project Count, CPP Format Export, Import from Excel
There are several new pieces of functionality in P6 Professional v23.10. We will start with a high level look at a few of the elements. One of the new pieces of functionality added allows users to paste multiple data entries from Excel directly into P6 Professional using range copy/range paste. Copy/Paste of a range is available in both directions: Excel to P6 or P6 to Excel. From P6 to Excel select the range, right click and select Range Copy (or use Shift+Ctrl+C), and then paste the range into Excel.From P6 to Excel select the range, right click and select Range Copy (or use Shift+Ctrl+C), and then paste the range into Excel.
P6 EPPM V23.10 – Have You Seen These Features?
Have you seen these new features? They were added in Primavera EPPM version 23.10.
Additions to Viewing Current & Recent User Sessions
By selecting the User Sessions page from the User Menu, users can view information about their recent sessions.Check Schedule Toolbar in Primavera P6
Let’s take a quick look at the Check Schedule Toolbar functionality in P6 v23.12.1. (This toolbar was put into P6 in v22.4.)
Enabling the Check Schedule toolbar displays the toolbar icons below.
Working across the Check Schedule toolbar, the functions behind the icons are shown.
Enabling the Check Schedule toolbar displays the toolbar icons below.
Working across the Check Schedule toolbar, the functions behind the icons are shown.
Early Dates, Late Dates and Total Float in Primavera P6
Primavera P6 utilizes CPM or Critical Path Method Scheduling. Using the activity information in a P6 schedule file, the early and late dates are calculated when the project is scheduled. P6 uses the activity durations and the relationships between the activities to calculate schedule dates. The schedule calculations are completed in two passes: the forward pass in the scheduling process calculates the early dates of each of the activities and the backward pass calculates the late dates. If the activity information (durations or logic) in your P6 schedule is incomplete or incorrect, scheduling results will be affected.
Primavera P6 Professional - Added Functionality to Keep in Mind
Do you monitor the ‘What’s New’ information for new versions of Primavera P6? Here are a few things to keep in mind when working in the P6 Client. For those using P6 v20.4 (or higher), there are a couple of new pieces of functionality (introduced in v20.4 of P6 Professional) that can prove helpful. This functionality allows the addition of comments about relationships as well as the functionality allowing role prices to vary over time.
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.
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.
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
Differences Between Primavera P6 and Oracle Primavera Cloud
In this article I will visit some of the data a user may be utilizing in Primavera P6 and how it is handled or not handled in Oracle Primavera Cloud (OPC). These are some of the differences found that may be of interest to current Primavera P6 users.
Resource Curves and Activity Settings in Primavera P6
Your project schedule has been created with no resource curves incorporated. (Resource curves are not always required.) Suddenly, during project execution and reporting, the project is displaying issues. Budget labor, actual labor units and at completion labor units are out of sync. In checking your schedule, it is one section of the schedule which looks to be displaying the issue. You find one of the schedulers has added resource curves to activity resources. At the time of the change, a number of the activities already had progress posted to them. What can happen when resource curves are added or changed after progress has been posted to activities? (Please note this is an example of what can happen given the settings and information scenario that was present at the time. My intent is purely to share what can happen.)
Activity Critical Path Toolbar Icons
In the P6 toolbars choices, an Activity Critical Path toolbar is now available. Let’s have a quick look at the icons.
P6 Caching - Not Ready for Prime Time
We have been using P6 v18.x with several clients and have seen some differing behavior related to caching. It appears the problem may have started as early as P6 v16.x. These clients are in varying environments; P6 Oracle SaaS, EAI Hosted, and on-premise - In short, anywhere where Oracle Cloud Connect is utilized.
We were excited to see the new form of caching that appeared in v17.x. We have clients with poor internet access and P6Web is not adequate for their needs - they need P6 Client. Everyone knows that P6 Client is very chatty and needs good bandwidth to work properly, so the idea that we can cache data and do heavy lifting on our desktop rather than on the server far away was great.
