Primavera P6 Time Stamps are used to make sure that activities begin and end during working hours. You may have set a date set for your activity but without a time stamp, your activity could be scheduled to commence an 8 hour day from 4 pm until 12 pm. If your schedule is reliant on […]
How to use Primavera P6 Reflections
Primavera P6 Professional has a handy feature called Reflections. A Primavera P6 Reflection project is essentially a copy of a project that allows you to examine changes to a schedule and offering you the ability to merge the copied project back into the original at any time. This is pretty cool. For example, if you were exploring […]
Limit Viewing of Financial Data in Primavera P6 EPPM
You have a project spread across multiple departments and you want each respective department to only view financial data pertaining to their deliverables. It is possible to limit view financial data privileges at the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) element level in Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management (EPPM). Let’s take a look at how to […]
Using the Project Status Field in Primavera P6
The Project Status field in Primavera P6 Professional is found in the ‘General Tab’ and it can be added as a column in your ‘Project Activity Window’, but not in the Resource Assignments Window. There are four types of Project Status, Active, Inactive, Planned and What-If and depending on where you are in your project […]
Video – Adding Columns to the EPS in Primavera P6 EPPM
Adding Columns to your Enterprise Project Structure (EPS) is a useful feature in Primavera P6 EPPM. It allows the organization or users to customize their activity table while, at the same time, displaying the important information that is needed for managing their projects. By adding columns, more data can be displayed. This is helpful for […]
Adding Columns to the EPS in Primavera P6 EPPM
How to Add Columns to the EPS in Primavera P6 EPPM Primavera P6 EPPM offers users the capability select data as well as add columns to their Activity Table in the Enterprise Project Structure. Hence, structuring the activity table can become personalized to the project that the organization or user is adhering to. How to […]
How to Print a Gantt Chart in Primavera P6 EPPM
Has your project manager ever requested that you print a Gantt chart and associated activity table for a presentation at a Stakeholders meeting? It can be a bit of a challenge because you want the print out to be aesthetically pleasing and well understood. And, as this document is a visual representation of the schedule, […]
How to Exclude Relationships on Baseline Bars in Primavera P6
Exclude Relationships on Baseline Bars in Primavera P6 If you have come across the situation where the relationship lines on your Gantt chart point to the baseline bars, it means that you need to change your Gantt chart options so that you can see the relationship between tasks. When a project is first baselined and […]
How to Accommodate Bad Weather in Primavera P6
Accommodate Bad Weather in Primavera P6 Unless you are working indoors, the weather is always a consideration when building a construction schedule. Somehow, inclement weather must be addressed for any work which is impacted by it. So what do we do? Based on historical data and current forecasts, a Project Manager can plan with a degree […]
Oracle Releases Primavera P6 Version 20.6 for Cloud Members
Oracle has released Primavera P6 version 20.6 to its Cloud Members. Companies using Primavera P6 EPPM Oracle Cloud enjoy regular releases and updates to the product. These are generally released every month or so and eventually become available as an update nearer the end of the year to those customers that have on premise installations. […]