P6 Progress Reporter Implementation Process

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P6 Progress Reporter enables project team members to use the web to communicate timesheet and activity status directly to their organization’s database, regardless of their location. This ensures that project managers are always working with the most up-to-date project information, making it easier to plan resources or resolve conflicts.

P6 Progress Reporter consists of the P6 Progress Reporter application hosted on an application server and the P6 EPPM database server that contains your organization’s projects. Additionally, the P6 application server hosts the Timesheet Approval application, which timesheet approval managers use to review resource timesheets.

Caution: When you have actual units assigned to resource assignments (whether they came from an imported project or you decided to start using P6 Progress Reporter in the middle of your project), all pre-existing actual values are lost the first time you run apply actuals on your project.

Before you implement P6 Progress Reporter, first ensure that the following have been completed:

• See the Planning Your P6 EPPM Implementation guide for a list of supported application servers with version numbers. For a full list of tested configurations for P6, see the P6 EPPM Tested Configurations document.
• Install the P6 EPPM database, as described in the Automatically Installing and Configuring P6 EPPM guide.
• Install and configure the P6 Progress Reporter server. See the Automatically Installing and Configuring P6 EPPM guide.

After you have completed the above, use P6 to perform the following procedures, which are described in this chapter:

• Configure resources to use P6 Progress Reporter.
• Set administrative preferences for how users will use timesheets and specify timesheet approval requirements.
• Set project-specific preferences for P6 Progress Reporter.
• Create timesheet periods.
• Create overhead codes for recording nonproject hours.

You can then direct users to connect to P6 Progress Reporter. See Accessing P6 Progress Reporter from Client Browsers for the Web Browser Version. See Accessing P6 Progress Reporter from Client Browsers for the Java Web Start Version.

Finally, if your organization plans to use the Timesheet Approval application, perform the following:

• Assign product module access and the required security privileges to timesheet approval managers. See Users and Security in P6 EPPM.
• Configure access to Timesheet Approval as described in this chapter. See About Timesheet Approval.