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 [...]

  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 [...]

  Occasionally we revisit some of our reader’s favourite posts from the annals of the PlannerTuts tutorial library, and today we’re revisiting a topic that is always hot – importing updates from excel.  This video tutorial was first published on September 30th, 2011 and was very popular.  Let’s take a look! Often large projects demand [...]

Have you ever printed your P6 Gantt Chart only to find that you can’t quite see the first or last milestone because they fall off the page or are cutoff?  I have. Here’s how avoid printing a scrunched gantt chart by easily expanding your timescale before you print.

A great way to see all your resource assignment levels comparatively over time is to use P6′s Stacked Histogram chart.  It’s a feature that is available in the Resource Usage Profile charting facility. Stacked Histograms are common sight in project environments.   Primavera P6′s stacked histogram stacks each bar on top of each other to give [...]

Featured this week is a great way to use Primavera P6 Reflection projects.  If you’ve perused our other Primavera P6 tutorials, you may already know reflection projects are great for working with and managing scenarios.  But they can also provide a way to preview and selectively approve activity updates from sub-contractors or other groups. The key [...]

Order is important!  Last post, we showed you the nuances of shading non-work time on the Primavera Gantt Chart.  Today we’re uncovering some more nuances of that essential Gantt Chart. Ever come across this situation where the relationship lines on your Gantt Chart point to the baseline bars?   If so, things can look a [...]

Although using a Windows PC has been the time-tested and traditional way to run Oracle Primavera for years, nowadays there are more options available to you.  I recently heard of a construction company rolling out tablets to field surveyors to capture pictures and data on the spot for statusing their progress on the build.  It’s [...]

Primavera doesn’t have a feature to split a planned activity.  It does have “Suspend” and “Resume” fields for statusing an activity with a break in the middle.  But as for splitting planned activities in Oracle Primavera, we have to get creative to make it happen. One way to split an activity is using User Defined [...]