Accessing P6 Progress Reporter from Client Browsers for the Web Browser Version

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After you install and configure the P6 Progress Reporter server, as described in About Installation in P6 Progress Reporter Post Installation Administrator's Guide, and implement P6 Progress Reporter, as described in this chapter, users can run P6 Progress Reporter using the process detailed below.

Notes:

• Java Web Browser users must always access P6 Progress Reporter using the URL specified in step 1 below.
• To select the authentication mode for P6 Progress Reporter, use the P6 Administrator application. See Authentication Settings for P6 EPPM in P6 Administrator Application Settings for information about authentication configuration settings. You can provision users for P6 Progress Reporter when adding a user in P6. See Authentication in P6 EPPM in P6 Post Installation Administrator's Guide for details on this process.

1. Access P6 Progress Reporter from a client browser using the appropriate URL structure for your P6 Progress Reporter version:

   http://serverIP:listenport/ContextRoot/applet?lang=language_code

   where the ContextRoot is pr by default. See below for all available language codes.

   Examples:

   WebLogic: http://serverIP:7001/pr/applet?lang=en
   WebSphere: http://serverIP:9080/pr/applet?lang=en
   

   Language Codes:

   Brazilian Portuguese = pt_BR

   Dutch = nl

   English = en

   French = fr

   German = de

   Italian = it

   Korean = ko

   Russian = ru

   Spanish = es

   Simplified Chinese = zh_CN

   Traditional Chinese = zh_TW

   Notes:

   • You might be able to modify the context root on your application server. For information about context root configuration, refer to your application server documentation.
   • Also, URLs might be case-sensitive, depending on your application server configuration.
2. Click Run Progress Reporter.
3. If prompted, click Yes to install the Java files from Oracle. The Setup program searches for the required Java Runtime Environment (JRE). If the required version it is not found on your machine, the setup process to install it launches automatically.
4. Click Yes to install the required JRE and accept the license agreement.

   Note: You will only be prompted to download the Java files the first time you click the Run Progress Reporter link.

5. If prompted, click Grant Always to run the applet.
6. Type your login name and password.

   Note: If P6 Progress Reporter is running in Single Sign-On authentication mode, the preceding dialog box does not appear. Instead, login credentials are requested and validated by the policy server.

   Your activities appear in the Activities window.

Tips

Users can also enter time via the My Activities Dashboards portlet in P6. For more information, see the P6 Help.