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P6-Loader v13 - New Release

P6-Loader v13 - New Release

Easier Hierarchies and Fragnet Templating

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P6-QA v8 - New Release

P6-QA v8 - New Release

Your P6-QA metrics are now available in Power BI reports. You can also create custom reports via our P6-Reporter tool in your corporate dashboards. These reports include time based metrics to help you see where in your project these quality issues exist.

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Upcoming Live Webinars

Upcoming Live Webinars

Watch one of this month's live webinars.
  • P6-Loader v13 - May 2, 11am-12pm MDT
  • P6-Loader - May 8, 7-8pm MDT
  • P6-Loader - May 9, 9-10am Philippine Standard Time

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P6-Calculator v7 - New Release

P6-Calculator v7 - New Release

Easily Manage Key Resources and Mandatory Activities in P6!

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Safran Risk v22.2.0 - New Release

Safran Risk v22.2.0 - New Release

Safran Risk has released v22.2.0. Read about all the exciting new features.

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P6-Auditor v5 - New Release

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.

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Safran Risk v22.1.0 - New Release

Safran Risk v22.1.0 - New Release

Safran Risk has released v22.1.0. Read about all the exciting new features.

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P6-Scrubber v6 - New Release

P6-Scrubber v6 - New Release

In version 6, we added notebook type scrubbing and also made improvements to the P6-Scrubber user interface, reports and functionality in general.

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P6-Calculator v6.4 - New Release

P6-Calculator v6.4 - New Release

Easily Manage Key Resources and Mandatory Activities in P6!

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Upcoming Online Training

Upcoming Online Training

Join one of our upcoming, live online training courses for Primavera P6 or Safran Risk.
  • Primavera P6 Basic - Jan 8-12
  • Primavera P6 Advanced - Jan 17-19
  • Managing Risk in Safran Risk - Feb 5-8

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P6-Scrubber v5 - New Release

P6-Scrubber v5 - New Release

Work online or offline to define and scrub your XER files and now, in the new release, XML files. Version 5 makes scrubbing files even easier for schedulers.

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P6-Loader v12 - New Release

P6-Loader v12 - New Release

Our latest version of the P6-Loader brings the ability to automate the backups out of P6 even from the Oracle P6 Cloud.

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PCM-Archiver v6.3 - New Release

PCM-Archiver v6.3 - New Release

PCM-Archiver version 6.3 adds support for Primavera Expedition.

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Blog: P6-Reporter Self-Serve Dashboards for Turnarounds

Blog: P6-Reporter Self-Serve Dashboards for Turnarounds

Learn how P6-Reporter dashboards can help in Turnarounds in this blog article

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Blog: P6-Scrubber - Demoting Versions in XERs

Blog: P6-Scrubber - Demoting Versions in XERs

Have you ever had the need to demote an XER from a higher version of Primavera P6 to a lower version so you can import the file into your database? Learn how P6-Scrubber can help!

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P6-Reporter v3 - New Release

P6-Reporter v3 - New Release

More charts. More insight. Understand your projects in ready to use, customizable reports in Power BI, Tableau or ODV.

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PCM-Archiver v6.1 - New Release

PCM-Archiver v6.1 - New Release

PCM-Archiver version 6.1 gives you better control than ever over the archived file and folder names.

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Safran Risk v21 - New Release

Safran Risk v21 - New Release

Safran Risk has released v21. Read about all the exciting new features.

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P6-Scrubber v4 - New Release

P6-Scrubber v4 - New Release

Work online or offline to define and scrub your XER files and now, in the new release, XML files. Version 4 makes scrubbing files even easier for schedulers.

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PCM-Archiver v6 - New Release

PCM-Archiver v6 - New Release

PCM-Archiver version 6 allows you to save even more time when resuming previously-interrupted extractions.

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Oracle Primavera P6 18.8.7.0 Released

 

IMPORTANT UPDATE: The major patch 18.8.7.0 for P6 EPPM is now available.  The following list of patches have been added for Primavera

WEB

  • 29429837 NOT POSSIBLE TO SEARCH ALL COLUMNS IN THE RISKS PAGE IN WEB
  • 29360341 INTERNAL FP : BUG 29214996 - XML IMPORT ADVANCED TAB - DOES NOT SHOW DATA FROM XML FILE
  • 29284260 P6 - EXPORT TO XML, ALLOW CHECKBOX TO SELECT ALL BASELINES AT ONCE
  • 29209787 UPDATE WBS FIELDS IN THE ACTIVITY VIEW
  • 29353121 PROJECT CODE VALUE PARAMETER IS NOT REFRESHING IN P6 REPORT
  • 29343038 UNABLE TO MODIFY PROJECT NAME WITHIN ACTIVITY TABLE IN EPS UNLESS DELETED
  • 29341770 FP-BUG 29124021 - THE CBS CODES SEARCH RESULTS SHOWS EMPTY WHEN CBS CODES ARE PRESENT .
  • 29336087 ACCESSING RESOURCES TAB IN P6 WEB NEVER FINISHES AND TRIGGERS PERFORMANCE ISSUES
  • 29334236 FP ERROR DISPLAYED WHEN RUNNING A REPORT ON P6
  • 29330154 RESOURCE ASSIGNMENTS PAGE DOES NOT LOAD
  • 29307665 PUBLICATION FLAG REENABLES AFTER COPY AND PASTE IN WEB APPLICATION
  • 29259805 UNABLE TO DELETE MORE THAN 574 RISK CATEGORIES AT ONE TIME
  • 29203330 NO ENTRY IN RSRCOVERALLOC TABLE,WITH A RESOURCE WITH A ROLE ASSIGNED AND OVER ALLOCATED,
  • 29060101 ASSIGN BUTTON MENU ITEMS MISSING WITH SHORT DETAIL PANE
  • 28872484 TECHNIPNET PROD/STAGE ENVIRONMENTS SLOW PERFORMANCE
  • 29367776 CANNOT SET THE WEB SERVICES IMPORT EXPORT TEMP DIRECTORY
  • 26984074 FILL DOWN FUNCTION DOESNT WORK AS EXPECTED USING SHIFT KEY

P6 CLIENT

  • 29330607 DELETED WBS REAPPEARS WHEN IT CONTAINS LOGICALLY DELETED DATA
  • 29312308 XML IMPORT => OBJECT REFERENCE NOT SET TO AN INSTANCE OF AN OBJECT.
  • 29290055 ALL USERS COULD NOT LOGIN AFTER IMPORTING XER FILE
  • 29268916 SPREAD IS NOT USING MANUAL CURVE WHEN UPDATING RD AND MOVING DD.
  • 28826579 MSP XML EXPORT ERROR THE GIVEN KEY WAS NOT PRESENT IN THE DICTIONARY
  • 29347320 NON-ENGLISH CHARACTERS NOT CORRECTLY HANDLED BY XML EXPORT/IMPORT FROM P6 CLIENT
  • 29139313 IMPORTING XER HANGS ON SAVING CHANGES IN CLOUD ENVIRONMENT USING CLIEN-SIDE CACHE
  • 29235621 SWITCHING PORTFOLIO SENDS INDIVIDUAL LOADING SUMMARY DATA REQUESTS PER PROJECT IN PORTFOLIO

TEAM MEMBER

  • 29284725 FP-BUG-29133508 - USER CAN MARK ACTIVITY AS COMPLETE IN TEAM MEMBER BUT CANNOT ENTER TIME AFTER CLICKING THE COMPLETE CHECK SYMBOL

INTG

  • 28667712 LARGE ARCHIVELOG CREATION INCREASE WHEN PUBLISHING RESOURCE AND ROLE DATA
  • 29360264 INTERNAL FP : BUG 29198529 - IMPORTPROJECTASYNCASAP DOES NOT RETURN ERROR MESSAGE IF AN IMPORT PROJECT FAILS

Oracle Primavera P6 18.8.5.0 Released

 

IMPORTANT UPDATE: The major patch 18.8.5.0 for P6 EPPM is now available.  The following list of patches have been added for Primavera

WEB

  • 29179247 BASELINE IS NOT ASSIGNED AFTER COPYING/PASTING PROJECT
  • 29171081 USERS PRIMARY BASELINE IS NOT ASSIGNED AFTER COPY PASTE .
  • 29152645 P6 WEB PROJECT PREFERENCES HANGS
  • 29130395 DOUBLE-CLICKING A CELL AND SELECTING DELETE NO LONGER REMOVES SELECTION
  • 29125733 FP - CHANGED OBJECTS ARE SEEN IN THE SCHEMA VALIDATION REPORT OF SQL SERVER PPM TO EPPM MIGRATION
  • 29124997 GARBLED OLD_VALUE IN TABLE PXRPTUSER.PRMAUDIT_FULL IS INTRODUCED FROM PROJECT.PROJ_SHORT_NAME
  • 29120185 TIMESHEET APPROVAL RETRIEVES ALL TIMESHEET PERIODS WHEN CHOOSING ACTION REQUIRED
  • 29062726 P6 WEB PROJECT STATISTICS PORTLET DISPLAYS BLANK WHEN SWITCHED TO GROUP VIEW
  • 29058716 FP BUG- BUG 28936307 - LOADING CBS CODE HIERARCHY WITH PARENT-CHILD LOOPS CAUSES HIGH CPU AND STUCK THREADS
  • 29042599 NOTES TAB IN PREVIOUS VERSIONS IS NOT AVAILABLE IN VERSION 18.8 AND ABOVE DUE TO JAVA TO HTML5 CONVERSION
  • 29030805 RESOURCE ANALYSIS PAGE NOT SHOWING DATA
  • 29019033 MY PREFERENCES PAGE DOES NOT LOAD FOR ALL USERS
  • 29018468 USER INTERFACE VIEW DISPLAYS HIDDEN ASSIGNMENTS PAGE
  • 28993855 FILTER CHANGES NOT SHOWING UNTIL MANUAL REFRESH
  • 28977243 FP DIFFERENT BEHAVIOR IN PRO CLIENT / WEB WHEN CHANGING START DATE ON ACTIVITY
  • 28971503 FP-BUG-28907066 - P6 WEB DOES NOT STORE CORRECT DATES PRIOR TO SAVING
  • 28960733 FP USER NOT PROMPTED TO SAVE AFTER DELETING EXPECTED FINISH DATE
  • 28896662 FP-BUG-28781236 - TIMESHEET APPROVAL SHOWING INCORRECT VALUES (MULTIPIED BY NUMBER OF TS PERIODS)
  • 28872484 TECHNIPNET PROD/STAGE ENVIRONMENTS SLOW PERFORMANCE
  • 28848983 IMPORT XML, MANAGE TEMPLATE, IMPORT UNDER RESOURCE SETTING DOES NOT SAVE
  • 28580723 P6 ACTIVITIES TAB CANNOT BE LOADED FOR ONE IMPORTED PROJECT

P6 CLIENT

  • 28394939 FP UPDATE BASELINE REMOVES RESOURCE BUDGETED UNITS
  • 29169408 FP: UPDATE BASELINE ERROR UNIQUE CONSTRAINT (PARENT,PROJECT ID,WBS NAME) VIOLATED
  • 29118608 BAR NECKING IN VISUALIZER GANTT CHART DISSAPEARING BASED ON DATE SETTINGS
  • 28866210 FP BUG-BUG 28836948 - XML IMPORT FAILS WITH EXCEPTION ID IS NOT ALLOWED TO MATCH AN EPS ID IN DB
  • 28661767 P6 DISPLAYS AVERAGE HOURS/DAY FOR TASKS UPDATED FROM TEAM MEMBER TIMESHEET

 Team Member

  • 29057870 FP-BUG-28935726 - TIMESHEETS - SAVE TIMESHEET AFTER ASSIGNMENT HAS BEEN REMOVED CREATES ORPHANED RECORD(S)
  • 28929106 FP-BUG-28504018 - ASSOCIATED RESOURCE USES TIMESHEETS FLAG NOT CONSISTENT WITH MODULE SETTINGS

SRVS

  • 29053988 SOME OLD JOBSVC ASAP RECORDS NOT GETTING DELETEDSEV 1 SR

PERF

  • 29124675 FP-ORA-02292: INTEGRITY CONSTRAINT (ADMUSER.FK_PROJCOSTCBSSPREAD_CBS) VIOLATED - CHILD RECORD FOUND INVOKING DELETECBS OPERATION

INTG

  • 28955089 FP COPYWBSFROMTEMPLATE RETURNS THE PARENT UNIQUE IDENTIFIER OF THE NEW WBS

Oracle Primavera P6 18.8.4.0 Released

 

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%

Emerald and Safran Risk. A Perfect Partnership!

Emerald Associates is excited to announce the addition of Safran Risk to it's stable of Project Management Tools.

Safran Software is a leading provider of Enterprise Project Portfolio Management and project risk management software solutions to project and asset-intensive industries.

Safran Risk has been developed by the same team that developed Pertmaster. They looked at where the industry is going and designed Safran Risk to be the next generation of probabilistic analysis tools - one with the unique ability to create both cost and schedule risk models and map the two together.

This software has been developed with a visually appealing and accessible user friendly interface, with a fully integrated scheduling environment. Safran Risk has been identified by Dr. David Hulett as the only commercially available solution capable of supporting his “Level 5” risk maturity level. Safran Risk also allows for seamless integration with Oracle Primavera (P6) and Microsoft Project tools.

  • Near real time modelling of all cost and time variables concurrently
  • Seamless and robust cost risk analysis
  • Innovative reports to provide additional insight into risk impacts
  • Comprehensive risk correlation including probabilities and impacts
  • The intuitive Safran Risk interface encourages best-practice processes
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Oracle Primavera P6 18.8.3.0 Released

 

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