Renumber Activities Sequentially After you have moved activities in a P6 Professional schedule, how can you have all the scheduled activities sequentially renumbered? Let’s take a look. When you have a list of tasks, you expect them to be numbered sequentially and ascending from the top to the bottom of the list. In P6 Professional, […]
Data Date Timestamp in P6 and Schedule Progress
Is it better for your schedule’s data date timestamp in P6, i.e. status date, to fall at the default midnight or match the exact start time of the next reporting period’s work? It depends, so let’s take a look at this in more detail. Some students in my P6 Professional Fundamentals class have asked why […]
Displaying Gantt Charts Side By Side In P6
We were recently asked how P6 Professional can display two Gantt charts side by side. Let’s take a look at how to do this. In P6 Professional, it is possible to open multiple projects simultaneously and display their activity tables and Gantt charts. P6 orients the schedules on the display by listing them by Project […]
Relationship Lines for Collapsed Bars in P6
P6 Professional can collapse bars to grouping bands and also has the option to show relationship lines for collapsed bars as well. Let’s take a look. In P6 Professional, you can set the Gantt chart graphics to “show bar[s] when collapsed.” This was demonstrated in our blog post The Collapsed Schedule View In Primavera P6. […]
Updating a Baseline to Reflect Edited Schedule Relationships in P6
When you update your schedule relationships, how can you include those relationship changes in your existing baseline? The baseline is a static copy of the schedule and functions as a ruler to measure progress. Schedules can have multiple baselines; one should be created to show the entire schedule plan before any progress. Adding an activity […]
Fill Down Status Dates in P6 Professional
I recently learned a new trick to make entering duplicate status dates more efficient in a P6 Professional schedule: Fill Down status dates. Let’s take a look. Sometimes, you will have an effort broken into several tasks for accounting purposes. Often, these activities can have the same start or finish dates. In this situation, it […]
Move Activities in Primavera P6 Professional
A recent request asked for an efficient way to move activities from one deliverable to another in P6 Professional. Let’s take a look at how to do this. P6 Professional is about displaying deliverables and their associated activities on a table and Gantt chart. Sometimes, you want to move an activity associated with one deliverable, […]
Primavera P6 EPPM 23.12 is Released
Primavera P6 EPPM 23.12 has been released by Oracle. If your using Oracle Cloud, then all these features are already available to you with some released throughout the year. For the on-premise folks, this is the first time you’re seeing this release. As stated in previous blogs, the annual release cycle of P6 EPPM typically […]
The Collapsed Schedule View In Primavera P6
The Collapsed Schedule View In Primavera P6 Sometimes, a high-level view of a P6 schedule’s tasks helps to highlight gaps in their deliverables’ work plans. Let’s take a look at this. P6 Professional has a bar settings feature to “show bar[s] when collapsed, ” providing a high-level view of the efforts associated with deliverables at […]
P6 Professional 23.12 is Released
P6 Professional 23.12 has been released by Oracle and here’s a look at what’s in it. In what has become a very predictable release schedule (every December), this latest version has a couple of useful new features. Let’s dive straight in and check out what’s in P6 Professional 23.12. Project Checker Improved Two new options […]