Adjusting gridlines (sight lines) in Primavera P6 can be frustrating if you are trying to print off a scaled-down Gantt chart. If you leave the grid lines as they are then your Gantt chart can become cluttered and unreadable, yet you have to scale it down to fit it on an 11×17 (the legal option […]
Using Notebook Topics in Primavera P6
Notebook Topics in Primavera P6 help to provide specified instructions, notes or a description for performing an activity. Projects are designed with many groups having an input; for example, the Health and Safety Department will have concerns about environmental issues and disposing of hazardous waste according to their strict guidelines. To ensure that every department […]
ScheduleCleaner Helps Avoid Polluting Your P6 Database with Global Data
ScheduleCleaner is a Huge Timesaver and Avoids Many Headaches In a typical Primavera P6 project managed environment, in order to communicate project data between project participants and Primavera P6 databases, project schedulers need to export, import, send and receive data from internal or external stakeholders. This exchange is typically done through files in the XER […]
Setting the Time and Date Settings In Primavera P6
It doesn’t sound like a bid deal, but being sure the time and date settings for the Project Start date, Data Date, and actual activity dates are set in Primavera P6, can make the schedule report a scheduled finish date with date variance of +- a day. This can also force fractional durations and Total […]
How to Use Fixed Price Costs in Primavera P6
Primavera P6 Professional supports assigning fixed price costs to activities; which, for example, is handy if you have a fixed price contract. A fixed-price contract would be negotiated by the procurement department who would agree on a fixed price with a contractor or subcontractor to provide labor, materials and/or equipment costs to complete a project […]
A Quick Way to Remove All Relationships from a Primavera P6 Schedule
Schedulers often want to use an existing schedule as a template for a similar project. First, to make the schedule fit for purpose, they may want to remove all the relationships from their template, so that it can be efficiently used in their new project. Primavera P6 Professional supports the removal of all relationships from […]
Oracle Releases Primavera P6 Professional 19.12
Oracle has released Primavera P6 Professional 19.12 along side Primavera P6 EPPM 19.12 which we reviewed recently. So let’s take a look at what’s in this new version of Primavera P6 Professional 19.12. Prime Time Not mentioned before in our P6 EPPM 19.12 blog, Oracle Prime Projects has been rebranded to Oracle Primavera Cloud. This […]
Oracle Releases Primavera P6 EPPM 19.12
Oracle has released the only major update in a year for on premises users, Primavera P6 EPPM 19.12. While many of these new features have been available throughout the year for customers using Oracle Primavera Cloud, this is the first time on premises users will get to enjoy them. Oracle Primavera Cloud upgrades it’s users […]
How to Edit Activity Relationships in Primavera P6 EPPM
When using Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management (EPPM) to edit activity relationships, there are a number of different ways to do this. The most common way that schedulers make bulk relationship entries, is the using the relationship tab found in the bottom details area. There is another way to define and edit activity relationships […]
Create Shaded Time Periods on the Primavera P6 Gantt Chart
Create Shaded Time Periods on the Primavera P6 Gantt Chart The Gantt chart is an essential part of Primavera Professional P6 software as it simplifies complex schedules by offering a snapshot that is easily viewed instead of just text and numbers. By using the Gantt chart to its full potential, schedulers are able to present […]