Getting Familiar with the Primavera P6 Interface

In this lesson, we'll take a walk through the Primavera P6 interface and understand the key P6 screens. We'll also expand on how Project and Enterprise data is organized in P6.

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Hi, everyone. Let's get ready. This is our first login into Primavera P6. So, here's the icon on my desktop, and we're going to log into what is right now the latest version of Primavera P6 on-premise version that's version 19.12. So, here's the login screen. Hopefully, you remember the password you set, you set it at install time and probably if you followed our install video, it is the same as the login admin.

On the login screen, I'll just draw your attention to one little thing. There is this databases tab where you can create and delete the available databases to you or connect to other databases including cloud databases, things like that. And you can also just access this dropdown to pick which one you want to log into.

On my PC, I have a few different databases, but you probably just have this PMDB database, which is the default one that would have been installed if you followed the installation video. Pick the one that you want to log into and let's punch in our password and get going. This is a good time for me to bring up the fact that Primavera doesn't look or work very differently among the different versions.

So, if you happen to be on an earlier version of Primavera right now, this training still works perfectly for you because not much, really, has changed and P6 still does the same thing. If you happen to be on a slightly lat...

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