Along with the new release of Primavera P6 R8.4, Oracle has also released Primavera P6 Analytics 3.4 with a slew of new features and capabilities. This new release offers new preconfigured dashboards as well as enhancements
Oracle Releases Primavera P6 R8.4
Great news for the Primavera P6 community as Oracle releases R8.4. Available immediately, Primavera P6 gets a solid update to R8.4 and includes some welcome new features. Here we take an initial look
Primavera P6 Gantt Chart Bar Labeling Options
Oracle Primavera P6 Professional supports Gantt chart reporting with numerous labeling possibilities that not everyone is familiar with. Primavera P6 has both predefined labels and associated filters and the ability to create new bar labels. Some of these
Primavera P6 Activity Steps
As the title suggests, Primavera P6 allows the scheduler to model the complexity of activity tasks while maintaining the simplicity of the Gantt chart. This is done using Primavera P6’s steps function. Activity steps allow the scheduler to break down an activity into smaller units of
Primavera P6 Triangulation
Inputting the tasks and the relationships among tasks in the scheduling software program can be a meticulous process. Primavera P6 has a helpful way of viewing these logical relationships to aid the insertion and verification of activity relationships. It is also important for the scheduler to understand the
How To Install Two Primavera P6 Versions On One PC
How do I install two different versions of Primavera P6 Professional on one machine? It’s not completely straightforward, but possible. Here’s how to do it.
Is Your P6 Activity Layout Really Corrupt?
From time to time when working in the Activity View of Primavera P6 Professional, I find that I get Access Violation errors like the one in the screenshot below.
What are Out-of-sequence Activities?
What exactly is an out-of-sequence activity and why do I care? This condition is reported in the warnings section of the Primavera P6 Professional and P6 EPPM Schedule Log.
Near-critical Activities in Primavera P6
A commonly used scheduling practice is to identify activities that are within a certain number of days from joining the critical path. In other words, the activity’s total float value is less than or equal to something like 10 days.
Primavera P6 – Importing XER Files Using Collabro’s Legare
The Oracle Primavera P6 database allows any number of projects to be “exported” to a single XER file, and that XER file can be “imported” into a P6 database in a variety of ways: