A P6 Professional user recently asked how to change the font and color of the bars or banners in the schedule. Here’s how you do it. In Primavera P6 Professional, it is possible to personalize your schedule. P6 has features for changing the color and font of your schedule to give it your own look. […]
Actual Cost Calculations in Primavera P6
Actual cost calculations in Primavera P6 Professional do not always update during scheduling to match the resulting Activity % Complete values. That is a problem, so let’s investigate the P6 actual cost calculations. If you want the Actual Cost of an activity to update when the activity duration progresses, toggle on the resource assignments calculation […]
How to Backup a P6 SQL Database
Need to know how to backup a P6 SQL Database? Here at Ten Six, we get this question occasionally from Primavera P6 users, particularly if they are new to P6 or unfamiliar with databases in general and are using a stand-alone SQL database. A lot of P6 users backup by saving each individual project file […]
Using The Expected Finish Date in Primavera P6
Typically, schedulers think in terms of remaining duration for activities when progressing the schedule, but it is also feasible to specify an expected finish date and have P6 calculate the respective activity’s remaining duration. The physical percent complete type is the most accurate way to show progress on a schedule. However, it does require more […]
Retrieving Dates and Time Stamps in P6
Retrieving Dates and Time Stamps From a Historical Project We received an inquiry regarding the blog “How to Display Time Stamps in Primavera P6” asking if one can retrieve date and time stamps from a historical project. Let’s take a look at how to do this. The quick answer is yes, provided your user preferences […]
P6 Professional Day/Hour Resource Usage Profile Not Correct
We recently received an inquiry about the P6 Professional Resource Usage Profile not correctly plotting when displaying hourly allocations of a resource. Here’s a look at what was going on. P6 Professional displays the Gantt chart and resource usage profiles for both Day/Hour and Week/Day timescales. However, the resource usage profile does not always plot […]
Video – How To Use Resources in Primavera P6
Need to better understand how resources work in Primavera P6? Good news, we’ve produced a short video, ‘How To Use Resources in Primavera P6’, where we show you the different types of Resources and how to assign them to an activity. Below is also a summary what’s in the video. What are Resources? Resources […]
Are You Still Using the Primavera P6 SDK or API?
There are a lot of Primavera P6 users who are still using the Primavera P6 SDK or API. And, for many this may work great for their specific use cases. But Oracle, for a long time now, has been trying to move users away from both of these older technologies. The Oracle message is clear, […]
Baselines for Level of Effort Tasks In Primavera P6
We recently received an email asking how to show on the Primavera P6 Gantt chart, baselines for Level of Effort tasks. This can readily be done in a few ways. Let’s take a closer look at how to do this. LOE tasks are distinct from Task Dependent tasks in that their work does not directly […]
Necking for Activity Nonwork Intervals In Primavera P6
P6 Professional narrows the necking of Gantt chart bars to indicate periods when you have activity nonwork intervals. Let’s take a look. The Gantt chart is at the center of Primavera P6. The more of the right type of information you have on Gantt chart the better you can interpret your schedule’s situation. And you […]