This article shows how to connect Deltek Cobra 8.1 to a Primavera P6 Database. We will take you through step-by-step, complete with screens shots, exactly what you need to do. In summary the steps are as follows:
Suspending Work Using Primavera P6 Professional
How do you indicate the suspension of work on an activity in Primavera P6 Professional? Sometimes all work on an activity is suspended, and then resumed at a later date. The cause of the suspension may vary. A classic example of a suspended activity is the suspension of pipe laying in a trench
Primavera P6 EPPM Default View Settings
Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management Release 16.1 and above comes in two views: Classic and Standard. How do you set your preferences in P6 EPPM to work in the Classic view? Oracle are moving away from Java in Primavera P6 EPPM, but it does not yet have enough features in its Standard view to warrant
Controlling the Project Baseline In Primavera P6
To maintain the integrity of the schedule the baseline updating process should fall under some form of change management control. Primavera P6 Professional provides a few security profile settings to restrict baseline changes. Primavera P6 Professional has project baselines and user baselines. Project baselines are
Dissolving Activities in Primavera P6 EPPM
There is an efficient way to remove activities from a schedule in Primavera P6 EPPM and it’s called dissolving activities. Here we take a look at how to do it. In the process of planning a project schedulers have to make numerous changes to the planned schedule. Many times these changes involve deleting activities
How to Schedule Weekly Meetings In Primavera P6
Projects that have weekly status meetings requiring broad attendance of resources will incur costs for those meetings. How can schedulers model these meetings in Primavera P6 Professional? Primavera P6 Professional does not have a weekly event feature similar to Microsoft Project
7 Ways to Get Primavera P6 Help
Are you a Primavera user looking for help? You’re in the right place! Below we have listed 7 sources of help for Primavera P6 so that you can get the most out of the software that you use. The good news is that there is a strong community of P6 users and great support within the tool itself as well. However experienced you are, and whatever your question
Editing Relationship Lines in Primavera P6 EPPM’s Gantt Chart
In Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management (EPPM), you can edit relationship lines directly on the Gantt chart. As with many features in Primavera P6, there’s more than one way to define and edit relationships. The most common method, typically used by schedulers for the bulk of schedule
How To Create A New Project In Primavera P6
This is my first of a series of posts for new users of the Oracle Primavera Professional client. It is intentionally opinionated and prescriptive with the aim of getting the newbie user up and running as fast as possible. The detail and options available will
Calendars in Oracle Primavera P6 Explained
Project Scheduling couldn’t take place without a P6 Calendar making them fundamental to the Oracle Primavera P6 system. Every calculation using dates needs a Calendar to work. In many ways, the Calendar is one of the most fundamentally important part of Oracle Primavera P6. Problems with the dates calculated in a P6