If you’ve never downloaded Primavera P6 Professional before from Oracle’s web site, then these rather useful Primavera P6 download instructions offer a step-by-step guide to make the whole process a lot easier. Primavera P6 Professional can be downloaded from Oracles e-delivery cloud website at the following URL: https://edelivery.oracle.com/ If you do not already have an […]
Importing XLSX Labor Resource Assignment Project Data into Primavera P6
Importing XLSX Labor Resource Assignment Project Data into Primavera P6 Microsoft Excel has enjoyed widespread adoption for decades. This makes it a preferred medium for the gathering and/or tabulation of project data for importing into Primavera P6 Professional. On most projects only a few are well versed in Primavera P6 Professional scheduling. This limits the […]
Opening and Closing Projects in Primavera P6 EPPM
Opening and Closing Projects in Primavera P6 EPPM Primavera P6 EPPM users can open more than one project at one time. Multiple users often the project team, can edit the same project at the same time if the user preferences or permissions are set to allow this practice. However, projects cannot be edited unless they […]
Video – Setting Up User Preferences in Primavera P6 EPPM
Setting up User Preferences in Primavera P6 EPPM is an important task before commencing scheduling a project. As the name suggests, ‘My Preference’ is the section that lets you customize the data display format across all sections of Primavera P6 EPPM, allowing you to display the data and EPPM features, in a more personal manner. […]
Using The Expected Finish Date in Primavera P6
Typically, schedulers think in terms of remaining duration for activities when progressing the schedule, but it is also feasible to specify an expected finish date and have P6 calculate the respective activity’s remaining duration. The physical percent complete type is the most accurate way to show progress on a schedule. However, it does require more […]
Setting Up User Preferences in Primavera P6 EPPM
User Preferences in Primavera P6 EPPM are active every time a user logs in. To access the user preferences, we enter the dashboard page and on the far right-hand side next to ‘Welcome’ we right-click. We scroll down and select ‘My Preferences’, as shown below in Figure 1. Figure 1 In the My Preferences page, […]
Primavera P6 Professional 20.12 is Released
Oracle, at the very end of 2020, released Primavera P6 Professional 20.12. What is turning out to be an annual year end release cadence for Oracle’s Primavera P6 Professional and EPPM tools, the end of 2020 was no different and closed out with a new release. In case you are new to the Primavera P6 […]
Personal Dashboards in Primavera P6 EPPM
Personal Dashboards in Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management (EPPM) is a unique feature that presents the scheduler with specific informative views of project data. Project Dashboards are similar to car dashboards that display an at a glance array of data about systems related to the car, which the driver can monitor while driving down […]
Video – Adding Activities in Primavera P6
We recently published an article showing two options on adding activities in Primavera P6 Professional. For the visual learners among you, we have also produced a short video on this subject, where we started a new project and added the Start Milestones as well as adding activities in Primavera P6. Watch the video and get […]
How to Add Activities in Primavera P6
Here we show you a couple of ways you can add activities in Primavera P6. Activities are typically added to a project using the Activities view in Primavera P6. The activities view is used most frequently during the planning and execution phases of the project. Upon clicking on the Activities button, as shown below in […]