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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Reviewing a recently updated schedule can be a pain for owners or clients who use Primavera P6 and get schedule updates from a 3rd party. On receiving an update, common questions include: What actuals data was changed since the last update? Were any activities added or deleted and how do I find them? Where there [...]

2012 is proving to have set a notch for Primavera books from Packt Publishing. They have released 2 books on Oracle Primavera software in 2012. We have already let you know about the first one – now let’s have a look the second; the first Primavera Contract Manager book ever written (to my knowledge) – [...]

This tutorial will walk you through a process to remove resource costs from XERs exported from Primavera P6.  This comes in very handy if you are sending project schedules to general contractors but want to hide cost information from them (or anyone else for that matter). Tutorial Files Complete this tutorial by downloading the following [...]

For all you creative types out there who love to create something awesome in a manner which is rather non-traditional….this tutorial is for you. In the spirit of the holidays, here are the steps to create a festive Gantt chart Xmas tree in Primavera P6, complete with decorations. Getting Started with the Gantt Xmas Tree’s [...]

PlannerTuts, I have to send my client a copy of my schedule every month. But the client would like me to exclude any resourcing information in the copy that I send them. How can I easily remove resources in the copy of the project I send to my client? Signed, Geoff.   Geoff, it turns [...]

  Many P6 users have trouble importing data from Excel.  Many of the problems are focused on importing costs or other numeric data fields that have been manually typed into Excel. Why can’t I import Primavera P6 cost data from Excel? Primavera P6 only imports data that is formatted as “Text” in Excel.  If you [...]