Scheduling cannot exist without a project calendar in Primavera P6. For example, in our demonstration project ‘Wellmont Substation’ (used below in this article), without a calendar how would our electricians know when to start work or break for lunch? Displaying the calendar timescale in Primavera P6 EPPM is shown in three different time phases; hours […]
Primavera P6 Download Instructions
If you’ve never downloaded Primavera P6 Professional before from Oracle’s web site, then these rather useful Primavera P6 download instructions offer a step-by-step guide to make the whole process a lot easier. Primavera P6 Professional can be downloaded from Oracles e-delivery cloud website at the following URL: https://edelivery.oracle.com/ If you do not already have an […]
Importing XLSX Labor Resource Assignment Project Data into Primavera P6
Importing XLSX Labor Resource Assignment Project Data into Primavera P6 Microsoft Excel has enjoyed widespread adoption for decades. This makes it a preferred medium for the gathering and/or tabulation of project data for importing into Primavera P6 Professional. On most projects only a few are well versed in Primavera P6 Professional scheduling. This limits the […]
Opening and Closing Projects in Primavera P6 EPPM
Opening and Closing Projects in Primavera P6 EPPM Primavera P6 EPPM users can open more than one project at one time. Multiple users often the project team, can edit the same project at the same time if the user preferences or permissions are set to allow this practice. However, projects cannot be edited unless they […]
Video – Setting Up User Preferences in Primavera P6 EPPM
Setting up User Preferences in Primavera P6 EPPM is an important task before commencing scheduling a project. As the name suggests, ‘My Preference’ is the section that lets you customize the data display format across all sections of Primavera P6 EPPM, allowing you to display the data and EPPM features, in a more personal manner. […]
7 Business Systems to Integrate with Primavera P6
Integrate with Primavera P6 If you’re planning to implement Oracle Primavera’s P6 EPPM enterprise tool suite, you have probably wondered how you are going to manage the integrations required to manage your business processes. It’s common for a Primavera P6 deployment to involve integration – in fact, it’s rare that we work on an implementation […]
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 […]
Setting Up User Preferences in Primavera P6 EPPM
User Preferences in Primavera P6 EPPM are active every time a user logs in. To access the user preferences, we enter the dashboard page and on the far right-hand side next to ‘Welcome’ we right-click. We scroll down and select ‘My Preferences’, as shown below in Figure 1. Figure 1 In the My Preferences page, […]
Primavera P6 EPPM 20.12 Is Released
Oracle has released Primavera P6 EPPM 20.12. Companies using Primavera P6 EPPM on premises can now upgrade to Primavera P6 EPPM 20.12. This annual release is a culmination of monthly updates that Oracle Cloud users have enjoyed throughout the year. NOTE: If you’re a Primavera P6 Professional user, you can see what’s in the Primavera […]
Primavera P6 Professional 20.12 is Released
Oracle, at the very end of 2020, released Primavera P6 Professional 20.12. What is turning out to be an annual year end release cadence for Oracle’s Primavera P6 Professional and EPPM tools, the end of 2020 was no different and closed out with a new release. In case you are new to the Primavera P6 […]