{"id":38568,"date":"2017-05-08t11:07:24","date_gmt":"2017-05-08t15:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/www.deco-dalles.com\/?p=38568"},"modified":"2020-07-14t15:58:21","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14t19:58:21","slug":"review-schedulereader-p6-xer-file-viewer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/\/www.deco-dalles.com\/review-schedulereader-p6-xer-file-viewer\/","title":{"rendered":"review of schedulereader – the p6 xer file viewer you didn’t know you needed"},"content":{"rendered":"

in this post, i’m doing a complete review of schedulereader.<\/p>\n

when it first launched, schedulereader<\/a> was formerly known as primaverareader an\u00a0xer viewer that was an intriguing alternative to importing .xer files in your database to view the contents. but the tool was a bit too new to do a deep dive. now, having a few releases under its belt (currently version 6.1), i’m convinced schedulereader is a tool that will become essential to any company using primavera p6 or working with other companies that do.<\/p>\n

in october of 2018, primaverareader released version 6.0 and at that time it was also re-branded as schedulereader.<\/p>\n

here’s why.<\/p>\n

if you manage your construction & engineering projects with primavera p6 professional project management<\/a>, you know how expensive it can be to get everyone on your team a full working license. primavera p6 professional licenses cost approximately $2500 usd each and if you need a bunch for your project team, the cost is going to set you back.<\/p>\n

and maybe you don’t need your whole team trained-up and becoming experts on primavera p6 (we can help you<\/a> if you do). but you do want to share your primavera p6 project information with the team, whatever their roles might be.<\/p>\n

oracle says they have tools for you to accomplish this. primavera p6 eppm web and its addons like primavera teammember or the teammember mobile app were designed to share project information with a team. sure, but this solution is expensive\u00a0and it’s not for\u00a0those who aren’t willing to invest significant time, money and energy into the full primavera p6 web suite. what if you just want to stick with primavera p6 professional?<\/p>\n

enter schedulereader<\/strong>\u00a0– an easy-to-use project viewer that lets you view, print, and analyze primavera p6 .xer and .xls files. i’ve explained the challenges of importing .xer files<\/a> to your primavera p6 database before but there’s no denying that passing project information back and forth with .xer files<\/a> isn’t going to stop anytime soon. but now, you can see what’s inside an .xer file, letting you decide if you need to import it or not to your database.<\/p>\n

on top of that, using\u00a0a viewer application\u00a0makes primavera p6 data more accessible to your team. a project team member can now receive an .xer file, open it and get a full understanding of the project without the need to log into primavera p6 at all.<\/p>\n

at 世界杯2022亚洲比赛时间 , we’ve adopted schedulereader to help us review assignments and homework submitted to us by our members, something that we do as part of our training curriculum<\/a>. the tool has saved us countless hours in our marking of assignments because it’s so fast.<\/p>\n

schedulereader runs on windows. the pricing is in everyone’s range at $349 usd for single license, or $449 usd for the pro version and volume pricing is available as well (talk to us<\/a>). you can try the full version schedulereader out with a 15 day trial downloadable here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

with that, let’s take a closer look at how schedulereader holds up, what makes it unique and how i’ve been using it.<\/p>\n

here’s my review of schedulereader, formerly primaverareader.<\/p>\n

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schedulereader feels a lot like primavera p6, but faster<\/h2>\n

one of the biggest reasons i like schedulereader is how easy and quick is it to open .xer files. this might seem trivial to some, but anyone who’s had issues with .xer files taking minutes to import<\/a>\u00a0(some have reported hours) will also appreciate this fact. with 2 clicks, i’m into the file and viewing the activity table. check out my comparison video to see what i’m talking about.<\/p>\n