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IMPORTANT UPDATE: The major patch 18.8.4.0 for P6 EPPM is now available.  The following list of patches have been added for Primavera

WEB

• 28963875 RESOURCE ASSIGNMENTS=>EXPORT TO BE DISABLED IN GRID AND GANTT VIEW
• 28963509 NF: PROJECT>ASSIGNMENTS>MULTIPLE FILTERS=> DOWNLOAD FILE HAS NO DATA
• 28924111 REPORTS NOT SHOWING PROPERLY IN REPORTS TAB OF P6 WEB AFTER UPGRADE
• 28899145 FP-BUG 28867711 - MY PREFERENCE TIME UNIT DECIMAL NOT COPIED WITH USER
• 28871614 IO ERROR: REMOTE HOST CLOSED CONNECTION DURING HANDSHAKE FROM DBCONFIGPV
• 28866840 SLOW FILL DOWN PERFORMANCE ON STANDARD (HTML) VIEWS
• 28848912 UNABLE TO SAVE SET PROJECT PREFERENCES
• 28831326 COPY OR BASELINE SCHEDULES JOB SERVICE HANGS
• 28765285 SCHEDULE CHECK NOT WORKING
• 28746019 PREFIX IS ADDED TO THE AVAILABLE CODES IN SEARCH OF RESOURCES CODES ASSIGNMENT
• 28630870 DURING IMPORT XML A USER WITH RESTRICTED ACCESS UNABLE TO SELECT CHILD EPS NODE
• 28615649 IS IT POSSIBLE TO SET DEFAULT SECURITY POLICY TO SHARED WHEN USING WCC
• 28559679 LAST ACTIVE TIME COLUMN VALUE IS NOT CORRECT IN USER SESSIONS PAGE
• 28107298 TEAM MEMBER FILTER SAVE BUTTON DOESN'T ACTIVATE AFTER ADDING A NEW FILTER
• 28018904 START DAY IS MOVED 1 DAY AHEAD WHEN IMPORTING A XML IN MSP
• 27803843 PROJECTS > ASSIGNMENTS, SPREADSHEET VIEW DOUBLE ARROWS TO SEE MORE
• 26496253 LINKS IN NOTEBOOKS HTML5 VIEW CANNOT BE OPENED USING INTERNET EXPLORER OR CHROME
• 26082559 INTERNAL:BUG 26076403 - DATA IS INCORRECT IN XML IMPORT
• 25928478 MANAGE VIEWS - GANTT AND GRID VIEW, SHOULD BE SAVED AS A PART OF VIEW

P6 CLIENT

• 28816140 ZIP DOES NOT CONTAIN A VALID .XML IMPORT FILE ERROR DURING IMPORT (EPPM CLIENT)

• 27983660 MSP XML EXPORT CANNOT IMPORT INTO MSP DUE TO UID'S OVER 1048000
• 28979260 VTFIO-3898-C WHEN ADDING ACTIVITY RESOURCE ASSIGNMENTS IN GLOBAL CHANGE
• 28574580 EACCESSVIOLATION - AVAA0-1165-E WHEN OPENING AND CLOSING PROJECT
• 28714747 MIGRATE.BAT ALLOWS CUSTOMER TO RUN DB MIGRATION FOR SCHEMA MIGRATION
• 27892271 JAPANESE CHARACTER DID NOT DISPLAY PROPERLY ON GANTT CHART
• 28891099 LOGIN TO P6 PROFESSIONAL SUCCESSFUL WITH NO PASSWORD USING LDAP
• 28545416 UNABLE TO CONNECT TO THE DATABASE.. CLICKING DISCONNECT >RECONNECT WITH SSO
• 27478392 CLIENT SIDE CACHING NOT WORKING, LOSS OF DATA

 Team Member

• 28892063 USER CAN MARK ACTIVITY AS COMPLETE IN TEAM MEMBER BUT CANNOT ENTER TIME AFTER CLICKING THE COMPLETE CHECK SYMBOL
• 28799087 PRE 188: MISSING STAR ICON ON PRIMARY RESOURCE ONLY ACTIVITY RECORD AND TM FILTER ACTIVITY RECORD
• 28798281 PRE 188: IN TMWEB, TIMESHEETS UPDATE ACTUAL START DATE TO A PREVIOUS DATE, CELLS SHOULD BE EDITABLE FROM ACTIVITY START DATE NOT
• ASSIGNMENT START DATE
• 28798166 PRE 188:ISSUE IN THE VALUE OF ACTIVITY ACTUAL START DATE AND ASSIGNMENT ACTUAL START DATE IN P6 WHEN USING TIMESHEETS>UPDATE DATES FROM TM WEB

SRVS

• 28749446 FAILED TO EXPORT PROJECT TO MSP XML FILE DUE TO HUGE MEMORY (22+GB) CONSUMPTION ON DB SERVER
• 28291511 DD + (VALUE) OVER DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME CAUSES ISSUE USING SERVICES.

ADMIN

• 28528274 SCRUB USERNAME BIP SETTING IN P6 ADMINISTRATION

API

• 28623057 ACTIVITY COST IS NOT GETTING CALCULATED WHEN ACTIVITY % COMPLETE IS 100%

IMPORTANT UPDATE: The major patch 18.8.3.0 for P6 EPPM is now available.  The following list of patches have been added for Primavera

WEB

• 28823662 REG1883- ADMIN.JSP PAGE TRIES TO LOGIN FOR THE DUPLICATE DB INSTANCE INSTEAD OF BOOTSTRAP DB

• 28806670 SOME PROJECT PUBLICATION JOBS NEVER COMPLETE AND CAUSE PERFORMANCE ISSUES

• 28784227 ACTUAL START AND ACTUAL FINISH DATES DO NOT MATCH WHAT IS IN P6

• 28722021 UNKNOWN ERROR WHEN ACCESING THE PORTFOLIOS TAB

• 28714072 FIELDS ARE BLANK IN P6 WEB WITH CERTAIN ACTIVITY VIEWS

• 28679949 EV PUBLICATION DATA CALCULATED FOR ACTIVITIES W/ NO PROGRESS USING WEEKLY SPREAD

• 28611112 WHEN RUNNING 'USER INATCIVITY REPORT' LAST_LOGIN (SERVER TIME) IS BLANK

• 27619247 TRANSACTION (PROCESS ID 65) WAS DEADLOCKED ON LOCK - RESOURCE ROLE PUBLICATION

• 25889437 PRE175:SEARCH CRITERIA COLUMN NOT FUNCTIONAL IN ACTIVITIES ASSIGNMENT TAB

P6 CLIENT

• 28816140 ZIP DOES NOT CONTAIN A VALID .XML IMPORT FILE ERROR DURING IMPORT (EPPM CLIENT)

• 28714440 SYSTEM.IO.FILENOTFOUNDEXCEPTION: COULD NOT FIND FILE DURING MSP XML EXPORT

• 28546588 PROBLEM WITH EARNED VALUE PERIOD PERFORMANCE CALCULATION

• 28484197 IMPORT OF XML FAILS IF TMP DIRECTORY POINTS TO A DIRECTORY WITH A SPACE IN IT

• 28461581 VISUALIZER MULTIPLE GROUP BY DATA DISAPPEARS WHEN INDENT IS CHECKED

• 28449658 EDIT TEMPLATE DURING XML IMPORT TAKES A LONG TIME TO LOAD

 Team Member

• 28771596 CHANGING ACTIVITY % COMPLETE IN TEAM MEMBER CALCULATES REAMINING DURATION WRONG

• 28759308 NO MATCHING ACTIVITY FOUND FOR OBJECT ID XXXXXX

• 28642027 WBS NAME FILTERING - MULTIPLE WBS NODES WITH THE SAME NAME

SRVS

• 28771605 "NOSUCHFIELDERROR" WHEN LOADING CBSCODE IN RESOURCEASSIGNMENT IN API

ADMIN

• 28751043 DUPLICATE PROJECT IDS AFTER COPY/PASTE OR JAVA IMPORT (SAME ID - DIFFERENT CASE)-FP

IMPORTANT UPDATE: The major patch 18.8.2.0 for P6 EPPM is now available.  The following list of patches have been added for Primavera

WEB

• 28715013 CAN'T MODIFY UNIT OF MEASURE

• 28692039 FP-BUG-28554335 - PLACEMENT OF CURRENCY SYMBOL DISREGARDED IN STANDARD VIEW

• 28673764 MISSING DATA IN PAUDIT TABLE

• 28637923 TEAM MEMBER FILTER PICKLIST CAUSING BROWSER/REQUEST HANG

• 28617746 PROJECT UDF DATA IS MISSING FROM DOWNLOADED XLS

• 28607462 INCORRECT RESULTS WHEN USING MULTIPLE FILTERS WITH ANY APPLIED CRITERIA

• 28600953 REMAINING DURATION AND COMPLETE % DON'T FOLLOW LOGIC IN STATUS UPDATE OVERRIDE

• 28600581 FPBUG-28388949-COST ACCOUNTS IN EPPM DO NOT ADHERE TO ENTERPRISE COST SORT ORDER

• 28599780 NESTED FILTER CRITERIA DOES NOT HONOR MATCH ANY AND MATCH ALL CRITERIA

• 28580799 GLOBAL SEARCH AND REPLACE ERROR FOR SEARCH CRITERIA ON PROJECT CODE AND UDF

• 28567376 DUPLICATE CBS CODES ARE NOT IMPORTED CORRECTLY INTO P6 HIERARCHY

• 28547373 NON-WORK DAYS INCORRECT IN YEARLY VIEW (GLOBAL CALENDARS)

• 28517732 NON<ADMSUPERUSER> ABLE TO MODIFY OTHER USER TO PRIVILEGE PSP:PROJECT SUPERUSER

• 26374912 TEAM MEMBER FILTER TAKING LONGER TIME TO LOAD ON HIGH VOLUME DATABASE

• 28314701 OVERHEAD ONLY TIMESHEET NOT CLEARING FROM APPROVAL QUEUE

P6 CLIENT

• 28669283 THE REMOVED FEEDBACK TAB FROM ACTIVITIES DETAILS PANEL COMES BACK

• 28507343 ADDITIONAL UPDATE BASELINE MENU OPTION IN P6 PROFESSIONAL UNDER TOOLS MENU ITEM

• 27925969 GROUP BANDS IN VISUALIZER DO NOT MATCH THE ORDER IN ENTERPRISE>ACTIVITY CODES

• 28672065 COPY AND PASTING FROM THE RESOURCE ASSIGNMENTS PAGE TIMESCALE IS INCORRECT

• 28672142 DIFFICULT TO DRAG AND MOVE A WBS ELEMENT FROM ITS CURRENT PARENT NODE TO ANOTHER

 Team Member

• 28399525 TIMES SELECTED ARE CHANGED WITH RESPECT TO SERVER TIME ZONE

SRVS

• 28607570 FP UNABLE TO COPY ACTIVITY CODE WITH SECURE CODE SETTING USING ACTIVITYSERVICE

ADMIN

• 28672427 NEED ADDITIONAL POPULATE_UACCESS FIX TO HANDLE MORE OBSPROJ ISSUES

• 28561853 ORPM_RESET_PRIV.SQL DOES NOT EXECUTE AT END OF MIGRATION

IMPORTANT UPDATE: The major patch 18.8.1.0 for P6 EPPM is now available.  The following list of patches have been added for Primavera

WEB

• 28543202 TEAM MEMBER LOGOUT URL FAILS WITH 404 NOT FOUND ERROR WHEN IT CONTAINS A ?

• 28538791 SELECT BUTTON IN OBS DIALOG BOX IS GREYED OUT.

• 28529604 FP PARAMETERS FROM P6 TO BI PUBLISHER NOT PARSED CORRECTLY

• 28493618 FP-MIGRATE.BAT COULD NOT REUSE EXISTING TABLESPACE

• 28473105 'UNABLE TO SAVE CHANGE' WHILE ADDING RESPONSE ACTION

• 28574985 ACTIVITIES PAGE DOES NOT LOAD

• 28443657 DELETING BASELINE OF A PROJECT WITH DOCS DELETES DOCS USING COLLAB SYNC SERVICE

• 28438080 TRYING TO ASSIGN A RISK MATRIX TO THE PROJECT BUT NOT ABLE TO SEE THE PROJECT

• 28428653 PROJECT ARBITER SETTINGS DO NOT ALWAYS UPDATE

• 28400300 NEW CALENDARS DO NOT INHERIT EXCEPTION TIME IN P6 WEB

• 28343769 ERROR: UNABLE TO LOAD DATA.. WHEN LOADING EPS PAGE

• 28300342 LAG IN DAYS DOES NOT CALCULATE CORRECTLY IN STANDARD VIEW.

• 28040417 P6 OUTPUT FOR A MULTIPLE TEXT PARAMETER CUTS OFF AFTER FIRST VALUE

• 27610537 17.12.1 PATCH UTILITY FAILS WHEN WEBLOGIC PASSWORD CONTAINS SPECIAL CHARACTERS

• 27264911 UNABLE TO CHECK 'HIDE IF EMPTY' WHEN USING MULTIPLE GROUPING BANDS

• 28423838 COPY/PASTE IS NOT WORKING FOR ACTIVITIES ASSIGNED WITH PREDECESSOR/SUCCESSOR

P6 CLIENT

• 28485598 UNABLE TO VIEW/UPDATE PROJECT LAYOUT FILTERS WITHOUT GLOBAL PRIVILEGES

• 28483918 USER PREFERENCES CAUSING USER TO NOT BE ABLE TO LOGIN

• 28268233 LARGE XER IMPORT IN PVD FAILS WITH ERROR \TSCLIENTC IS NOT ACCESSIBLE.

• 28536030 CHANGE THE FLAG IN PM WHEN READING THE REGISTRY FROM KEY_ALL_ACCESS TO KEY_READ

• 28477881 DEFAULT IMPORT TEMPLATE NAME SHOULD NOT BE EDITABLE FOR P6 XML IMPORT

• 28446230 CLOUDCONNECT HEAP MEMORY USAGE INCREASES OVER TIME DUE TO MEMORY LEAK

• 28392281 COPY/PASTE PROJECT DOES NOT DELETE PRIMARY RESOURCE WHEN IT IS NOT SELECTED

• 28181000 EXTERNAL SUCCESSORS MISSING IN DETAILS PANE

• 28368161 P6PROCLOUDCONNECT SERVERS CONTINUALLY LOCK UP WITH STUCK THREADS

• 27948468 AFMGS-1536-0 WHEN ADDING THE RISK COLUMNS PRE/POST DATES IN THE P6 CLIENT

 Team Member

• 28547031 AND SHOW UP AS &#X27 OR A BOX IN TIMESHEET NOTES
• 28444919 TIMESHEET EXPANDED ASSIGNMENTS OVERTIME AREA DRAWS INCORRECTLY

SRVS

• 28367094 READ PERIODATCOMPLETIONCOST FOR RESOURCEASSIGNMENT

The major release 18.8 for P6 EPPM is now available. The following list of enhancements have been added for Primavera P6 EPPM 18.8 For more information visit:

IMPORTANT UPDATE - RELEASE P6 18.8

WEB

• New HTML5 userinterface for Risk
• Classic views from EPS, Activity, and Resource Assignments were removed
• Removal of applets impacts the following functionality:
• Resource Team Summary
• Open Request for Resource
• Resource Analysis Chart: Replaced with improved charts in Resources/Resource Analysis
• My Workgroups
• Import global data to/export global data from P6: Import and export data via Excel on the Enterprise Data page. This feature is helpful for periodic updates of enterprise data. Existing data can be updated and new data can be added. If data fails to import, download a copy of the import file with appended information on why data failed to import. In this release, activity code import and export has been implemented.
• Assign project preferences at EPS level in Standard view: Preferences are applied to all projects in the specified EPS node and its child nodes
• Manage personally identifiable information in P6 EPPM and Professional
• Improved Visibility of Activity Information and Streamlined Bulk Edit Functionality In P6 for Android
• Interactive Gantt in the Standard View of the Activities Page and the Capacity Planning Page
• Create multiple user views on the EPS, Activities, Resource Assignment, and Project Assignment pages
• Performance Percent Complete Field Based On Labor Units
• Import and Export Location with Projects

TM

• Grouping and filtering improvements: Use up to five criteria to filter activity data. Group activities and assignments by project and WBS
• Filter based on the primary resource assigned to an activity in P6 for Android and P6 for iOS.
• Search the activity list based on codes and user-defined fields in P6 for Android and P6 for iOS.
• Use a setting in P6 to restrict whether resources in Team Member Web, P6 for Android, and P6 for iOS can assign themselves to activities outside the resource’s OBS access.

Prime

• Integration with Oracle Prime: Integration with Oracle Prime Import tasks from the Oracle Prime Projects Tasks to P6 Professional when connected to an EPPM database to integrate your lean scheduling process with P6. Prime tasks are visible in P6 Client as tasks assigned to activities in integrated projects
• Prime Sync is no longer supported in P6 EPPM: Use Primavera Gateway to configure a connection between P6 and Oracle Prime Projects.
• The following special operation event triggers have been added: Publish Audit Data Job Service, Global Search and Replace Job Service, Import Job Service, Export Job Service, and Update Baseline Job Service
• Import tasks from the Oracle Prime Projects Tasks app for lean scheduling in P6

INTG/Webservices

• Performance Enhancements.

P6PRO

• Import:
• View XML Import and Export Logs Without P6 EPPM:
• View XML import and export logs without the need for P6 to be installed on Primavera Virtual Desktop.
• Import Zipped XER Files:Import XER files directly from a zipped file without the need to decompress the file manually before importing
• Improvements in offline working: View the date and time when a project was last cached in the Last Cached Date column in the Projects View
• Performance Percent Complete field based on labor units:The Performance % Complete-Labor Units field in P6 Professional shows the percentage earned value of the budget at completion as calculated from labor units
• Upload Graphics to View and Print From Any Location in P6 Professional