I used to think installing 2 different versions of Primavera P6 Professional on the same PC was impossible. Well, impossible OR really, really difficult. I used to have a complicated VirtualBox setup with a huge virtual machine that would crawl along with delayed mouse movements just so I could run an older version of Primavera P6 on my PC. Of course, I would install the latest version
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5 Ways to Prevent Your Primavera P6 Install From Getting Hacked
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Just over a week ago, the city of San Francisco lost millions in revenue as a hacker's attack left the city's MUNI municipal transportation kiosk system completely inoperable. The trains and buses were running, but everyone was rode for free for 2 days as IT experts struggled with a ransomware demand. All MUNI computer terminals displayed the “hacked” message: “Contact for key
The Biggest Problem with Primavera P6 Calendars, And How You Can Fix It
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As planners and schedulers, we are tasked with managing mountains of project data everyday; progress updates, scenario projects, reports, reports and more reports. Data can quickly take over your life if you're not careful. And you don't have time for that. That's why a good system for organizing aspects of your project and project data goes a long way. My biggest frustration with Primavera P6
Understanding Primavera XER Files
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In this second part of Primavera P6 databases and data cleansing series, we will discuss the data structure of an XER file, and how the XER File Parser & Builder works. As the XER File Parser is a manual process (it does not honour P6 business rules), it is handy for the user to have a working knowledge of the P6 database. That’s why in this P6 tutorial we will show a general overview of P6's
6 Ways To Clean Up Your Primavera P6 Database Nightmare
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This is the first part in our series on Primavera P6 databases and data cleansing. Many of you work in Primavera P6 databases that are a complete nightmare - hundreds of global calendars, duplicate resources all over the place, redundant codes and more copies of projects than anyone should ever need in their lifetime. You may act like these don't bother you, but somehow logging in to P6 in the
Quick Tip: How To Convert an EPS Activity Code to a Project Activity Code in Oracle Primavera P6
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EPS Activity Codes are great when we want to have a set of Activity Codes available to certain projects based on where they sit in your EPS structure. An example might be having a set of Activity Codes for each Department in your database. Typically, EPS nodes would be set up for each Department, allowing an organization to specific a set of EPS Activity Codes for each Department that are only
Use Dropbox to share, collaborate and deliver project files with sub-contractors, coworkers and clients
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If you work on projects, chances are your hard drive is packed with project documents. At least one of spreadsheets, project plans, reports, procedures, extracts, powerpoint and drawings files will cross your path in a typical work day, either incoming from someone or maybe outgoing from yourself. Sharing, collaborating and delivering those documents would be easy if everyone we needed to
