rolando,
i can’t say i know anything about spring and haven’t used it with p6. if you get a specific error corde, post it here.

the error is execption eaccessviolotion in module pm.exe

you can setup any category in the admin categories option on the admin menu.

hi billy,
you don’t really adjust the project’s finish date. rather you would look at the entire project and make adjustments where applicable to see if you can hit your deadline. you’ll need to look at activity relationships, estimates of durations, approaches to the work, lag, etc. preventing negative float isn’t a trivial affair. it takes analysis and appropriate adjustments while executing the work. maybe that isn’t what you want to hear, but it’s proper procedure.

no. the price/unit columns (1 through 5) can be renamed in the admin settings. so someone probably renamed the first 3 columns to something like “standard rate”. if you visit a resource’s settings, on the price/unit tab, you can add all of the renamed rate columns to this tab. right-click on a column heading to edit the columns and add them all. then you’ll know the names.

p6 runs on windows 7 just fine. it will work.

you will have to download from the oracle the database zip file. that zip contains the db setup program that will also do an update. perhaps you already have it – it’s called dbsetup.bat.

the application and database versions do not match. click exit to close the application.

primavera p6 professional r16.2
expected database version: ppmdb,1620.0001.0001
current database version: ppmdb,1520.0001.0001

and i have not found database setupfile along with 16.2 pro download from oracle.

kindly advise how can upgrade my database to 16.2 or install new database for 16.2.

thanks in advance for your support

are you running p6 windows or p6 eppm?

we are getting this too – any idea or a fix?

we are getting this too – any idea or a fix?

it’s both aaron.

is this p6 eppm? or p6 professional?

moises, that’s my understanding – if you pay for support you are entitled to upgrade at no cost – but you may want to check with oracle to be absolutely sure.

im getting “you need an updated version of java to run primavera p6” after installation.everything is ok like java,weblogic but it keeps coming after installing new java as well.

can anyone has faced same issue and what is workaround.

thanks in advance,
madhur

i was under impression that as long as support was current, any new versions could be upgraded to at reduced cost.

yes, i’ve read that it does. another client of mine was also concerned about this.

michael, the key is to “roll up” the lowest tf value. i do not wish the tool to “calculate” the tf number. calendars are not the issue with a roll up.

micheal, i copy from activity usage spreadsheet prompting below the activity and gantt chart. earlier version it was same as u said, even though it is not appearing, but data was there when pasted. but now in primavera 16.1 , i am getting only remaining unit.

manish

david, you are correct. we should essentially ignore the summary level data. it is actually calculated based on whatever calendar is set as the default calendar in enterprise->calendars. since it’s based on single calendar, we often have the situation where the default calendar is not the calendar used in the project, or the project uses multiple calendars. so summary-level data cannot be trusted.

manish, can you explain please? if you are doing this from the resource assignments screen, then do edit->select all, copy and paste the results into excel.
i’ve noticed that is doesn’t seem as though all columns are highlights, but the data is there when i pasted it into excel.

regards,

manish

i’m pretty sure you can go right to 16.1. as always, a more stable version will have a larger decimal. 8.4 was good. but 16.1 seems to be fine in terms of bugs. if there were anything major i would report it here.
there’s not much that’s different if leaving 6.2. there’s a nicer interface, there’s no more methodology manager, there’s visualizer for reporting. otherwise, it’s still p6.

you can import from p3, but i believe you need p3 installed for it to work. so no, no improvements.

very good article. i assume the ability to import/export p3 files still remains. was there any improvement in this area?

hi vij,
thanks for pointing this out. i’m not sure why oracle’s indicating that sql server is “deprecated” – even though they continue to support it. it’s been my experience that many p6 clients are on ms sql and not supporting it would quickly alienate many of them. i believe oracle has tried this approach a few releases back, but the backlash was too much.
i haven’t tried an oracle to ms sql migration, but i would be very cautious in attempting one.

it was mentioned in “systems_non oracle db” page in eppm_16_1_tested_configs.xls document provided by oracle.

http://docs.oracle.com/cd/e59283_01/index.htm

also do you know any known primavera issues with oracle to sql database mingration ?

i can’t seem to find that text in the notes – can you point me to what file you are looking at or leave us a link here?

i’m surprised to hear this. i’ve got some very large projects in my db and the db size stays under 1 gig. do you have auto-shrink on?

note: this will ensure the transaction log no longer grows to a point where you reach the 10 gb limit.

1.) load sql server management studio and login as sa.
2.) right click on the pmdb database and select properties.
3.) in the left panel of the properties window select “options”
4.) under the automatic section set the “auto shrink” option to true and click ok.

i have an ongoing list of enhancements, but with regard to the relationship lag columns i would like to see p6 pro go one step further and show the lag on the relationship on the gantt bars as a label option. this would be so much easier to spot than having yet another column.

thanks for the rundown michael.