Yes, there is a way to assign a fixed price activity cost in Primavera P6 Professional. Primavera P6 has a standard process for creating and assigning labor, material, and equipment resources to compute activity cost. What if the activity is performed at a fixed price? Here we show you how to assign a fixed price […]
Primavera P6 Tested Configurations Archive
Primavera P6 Tested Configurations Archive Oracle Primavera publishes a tested configurations document with every release of Primavera P6 Professional and Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management (EPPM). The purpose of the document is to inform IT professionals what versions of software should be used for a particular version of the P6 deployment. This includes, the operating […]
Using Claim Digger in Primavera P6 to Compare Project Files
Have you ever been uncertain of the differences between two separate files of your project schedule? If yes, then Claim Digger in Primavera P6 is a rather useful utility in Primavera P6 for comparing project schedule files. It seems rather trivial, but the file comparison tool in Primavera P6, called Claim Digger, is actually a […]
Configuring Deltek Cobra To Use The P6 API
Deltek Cobra has the capability to connect to an Oracle Primavera P6 database and bring data into Deltek Cobra. It uses an ODBC connection to retrieve data that is stored in the Primavera P6 database. But, it needs to use the Primavera P6 API to extract time phased data used for budgets as this is […]
Primavera P6 Monitoring Thresholds
Do you have a particular parameter that you want to monitor in one or multiple projects? If so, than Primavera P6’s thresholds feature can help you. Primavera P6 Professional enables you to monitor a parameter within a specified Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) element. If you want to check the status of a parameter across multiple […]
Installing Primavera P6 Professional on Windows 10
We’ve written a few installation guides over the past few years on how to install Primavera P6 Professional. This latest guide takes you through step by step, compete with screenshots, how to install Primavera P6 Professional 64-bit on Windows 10. While Windows 10 is still relatively new, we’ve had folks asking for one of our […]
Primavera P6 Professional R15.2 Training Now Available
Primavera P6 Professional R15.2 Training Now Available Primavera P6 Professional E&C (Engineering and Construction) training is still our most popular training course and with the recent release of Primavera P6 Professional R15.2, we have just completed a major update to the course materials and training data. The release of Oracle Primavera P6 R15.2 was the […]
Primavera P6 and the As Late As Possible (ALAP) Constraint
In support of completing a project on time, project managers will normally schedule activities to commence as soon as possible (ASAP). However, there are times when project sequencing and timing dictates that a particular activity commence as late as possible (ALAP). Let’s investigate this situation. Both ASAP and ALAP are soft or tendency constraints. Soft […]
Importing P3 PRX Files into Primavera P6 Professional
If you are migrating from Primavera Project Planner (P3) to Primavera P6 and you have only P3 .PRX files, then the following steps show how to import P3 PRX Files into Primavera P6 Professional. IMPORTANT NOTE: Before we start there are two things you should know. First, you will need to perform this operation on […]
Driving and Free Float Activity Properties In Primavera P6
Imagine a large project with many tasks and associated relationships, and you have a critical task with an important start date. Do you have a quick way of spotting all the predecessor activities that may be encroaching on this critical activity’s start date? As projects become larger it becomes increasingly cumbersome to analyze the effects […]