One feature I really find invaluable and unique to Primavera P6 is the Progress Spotlight. Whenever you’re in the process of updating the status of your schedule, this little gem can really take the guesswork out of what needs to be updated.
Primavera P6 Percent Complete Types Explained
When adding activities to a Primavera P6 EPPM or Professional schedule, you have three possible percent complete types to choose from: Duration, Physical and Units. Which one you choose depends on your desired outcome
Primavera P6 Professional Work Products and Documents (WPs & Docs)
If you’ve been wondering how to use the WPs & Docs feature of Primavera P6 Professional, this article gives you’re the basics to get you started.
Primavera P6: Cannot set cost because there is no price
If you’ve experienced the following error message in Primavera P6, then here’s how to fix it. Cannot set cost because there is no price Primavera P6 ‘Cannot set cost because there is no price’ error message is easily solved. This article shows what causes it and the solution to it addressing it. When you attempt […]
What Is Primavera Contractor?
In a nutshell you can think of Primavera Contractor as a non-enterprise version of its more sophisticated cousin Primavera P6 Professional. It is in fact the same software as P6 Professional 6.1, but with a number of key enterprise capabilities removed.
Primavera P6 Header, Footer and Custom Labels
The Primavera P6 Print Preview feature offers considerable control over the Header and Footer areas of the printed output. This includes the ability to place up to three Header, Footer and Custom labels into the report.
Primavera P6 Industry Settings
“The appropriate industry for your organization has not yet been selected in Admin Preferences. Please contact your administrator.”
If you see this prompt when you login to Primavera P6 Professional, you need to make a change in your Admin Preferences as described below.
Creating LOE Tasks in Microsoft Project
This article looks at a lesser-known and tricky to find feature of Microsoft project that allows you to create a Level of Effort task. Level of Effort (LOE) tasks are often required in a critical path network to represent ongoing work that doesn’t typically represent a specific deliverable.
Primavera P6 Background Jobs – Part 2
In the first article on this subject that you can read here, we introduced the role of the Primavera P6 EPPM Background Jobs which included the removal of records from the database that were no longer required.
Primavera P6 Background Jobs – Part 1
Before Primavera P6 EPPM came along, the Project Management client application had the job of cleaning up the database. It would do this when a user logged in, logged out or selected an option in the Tools