Introduction In my previous tutorial in this series, I described the procedure to export resource assignment data from P6 to Excel. Most of us have worked with Excel charts in our job or during our study in college or university. What we all know is that they are really helpful when you want to demonstrate some [...]

Introduction As you know Primavera P6 has a lack of graphical features so often we schedulers need to export everything to other software packages (mostly Excel) to produce an understandable schedule and graphs. I always had a problem exporting resource related data to Excel with the standard exporting feature on P6 until I found  this way to use the [...]

If you do a quick google on keywords <Primavera calendars change>, you’ll end up with quite a few results that show you how to use Primavera’s Fill-Down feature to change the activity calendar of all the activities in a project. But I think the fill-down piece is only the first step in changing activity calendars. What [...]

The new version of Primavera P6, r8.3, has been released recently, and one of the new features is a stand-alone software, called the Primavera P6 Visualizer. This software provides you with a visual, read-only version of the plans you’ve stored in the P6 database. The Primavera P6 Visualizer is a good choice for those team members [...]

In the third part of our Primavera P6 databases and data cleansing series, we will show how to use the parser to clean an xer file.  But if you haven’t read them go back and read: Part 1: 6 Ways to Clean Up Your Primavera Database Nightmare Part 2: Understanding Primavera XER Files Cleaning an XER File [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

This week we’re starting a new Discussion feature on PlannerTuts.  Each week we’ll be kicking off a discussion that is insightful or particularly helpful in the day-to-day world of project controls. Share your opinion, add your thoughts to these debates. We all have smartphones and there are hundreds of thousands of apps out there. But [...]

Tutorial Files Excel Spreadsheet (Excel 2007+): PTuts_Project_Dashboard.xlsm – 1.5Mb One of our previous site manager told us (the project control team), that if we bring to him another report that have more than 1 page, he will just throw it away (sic), actually managers care only about the big picture, and don’t bother reviewing every [...]

Today is an exciting day here at PlannerTuts, home of the best Primavera P6 tutorials in town, as we have a really incredible announcement to make.  For many months we’ve been working night and day on developing a service that will help anyone who uses Primavera P6.  And its finally ready to be unveiled.  We [...]