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 […]
Activity IDs and Activity Names Best Practices In P6
When generating Activity IDs and describing Activity Names in Primavera P6 Professional, there are best practices that make for a better, more efficient, and understandable schedule. Understanding the proper convention for Activity IDs and descriptions for Activity names in P6 Professional is essential. You will often have to interface with the Activity IDs and Activity […]
Primavera P6 EPPM Baseline Update
P6 EPPM Baseline Update When a Primavera P6 EPPM (Enterprise Project Portfolio Management) baselined and progressed schedule requires additional scope, how do you include new activities in its baseline? Let’s take a look. The baseline is a static copy of the schedule that serves as a ruler for measuring progress. You can make an existing […]
Primavera P6 Professional Group By – Quick Tip
Primavera P6 Professional is about displaying project deliverables and associated tasks in the activity table area, but this requires the proper table Group By settings. Let’s show you how. After one of our P6 Professional Fundamentals classes, a student asked if I could walk him through entering deliverables and associated tasks in P6 Professional on […]