A student recently asked if you can only import a portion of P6 schedule into Primavera P6 Professional. It is feasible to export a Primavera P6 Professional schedule to Microsoft Excel, make updates, and then import these updates back into P6. When Primavera P6 Professional exports to an Excel spreadsheet the scheduler may include a […]
Transferring Resources between Primavera P6 Databases
Transferring resources between Primavera P6 databases is not as straightforward as one would like, but with a little ingenuity it is possible. When you transfer a project between Primavera P6 databases, P6 exports and imports all the resources and associated roles currently assigned to that project. This works well to retain the projects assigned resources. […]
Tracking Deliverable Progress with the WBS Summary Activity in Primavera P6
Primavera P6 Professional supports tracking of individual task dependent activities. If you want to know the progress of the overarching deliverable for these activities include a WBS Summary activity in your schedule. Primavera P6’s WBS (Work Breakdown Structure) Summary activity appears to duplicate the features of Summary bars. Similar to a Summary bar the WBS […]
Assigning Multiple Roles To A Resource In Primavera P6
A student at one of my Primavera P6 classes recently asked whether it is possible to assign multiple roles to a single resource. Let’s take a look at this. Primavera P6 Professional has roles that schedulers use to define specific trade skills, such as plumber, pipe fitter, or pipe insulator. These roles are stored in […]
Display a Window of Opportunity Gantt Chart Bar in Primavera P6 EPPM
How do you display a window of opportunity Gantt chart bar in Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management (EPPM)? Let’s look at a simple example. Your project has a brief period of time when the inspector is onsite and available to perform a final quality assurance inspection. This is your project’s window of opportunity. The […]
Creating a WBS in Chart View in Primavera P6
The Primavera P6 WBS chart view provides a nice hierarchical diagram of the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS). It also has a great feature that allows you to create the WBS chart view in Primavera P6? Here we show you how. Creating the WBS is an important first step in scheduling a Primavera P6 Professional project. […]
Exporting A Primavera P6 Schedule Without Costs
A customer recently asked how to provide a subcontractor a copy of a Primavera P6 cost loaded schedule, and not include the costs? In this situation, we have a subcontractor that needs to view the schedule to perform their work, but we do not want them to see any labor cost data or any other […]
Introduction to BI Publisher Webinar
Join our last free 2-hour webinar of 2018 Introduction to Oracle BI Publisher Join our Introduction to BI Publisher webinar. BI Publisher is Oracle’s powerful report development tool that is integrated with Primavera P6 EPPM, Primavera Contract Management and Primavera Unifier. However, BI Publisher can also be used as a reporting tool for any application […]
Loading Equipment Costs in Primavera P6
How to use equipment costs in Primavera P6. A student recently asked how to cost load equipment in Primavera P6 that extends over multiple activities that may overlap. Let’s take a look. The cost of equipment is usually charged on an hourly or monthly basis. A piece of equipment may provide support for more than one […]
Using Stored Period Performance in Primavera P6
I’ve recently been working at a client where they implemented Stored Period Performance using Primavera P6 Professional. It has not gone as smoothly as we would have liked, but there are some valuable insights from the experience should prove useful to others. Stored Period Performance forms part of the project update each financial period. It […]