Perform the steps below to publish the data from one or more projects. Any of the projects' baselines which is enabled for publishing will also be published when you perform these steps. P6 will automatically publish project data; however, you might choose to publish the data manually in special cases such as when generating an important report at a specific time.
To manually publish P6 project data:
- Click Projects.
- On the Projects navigation bar, click EPS.
- On the EPS page:
- On the Actions
menu, click Publish Projects.
- On the Actions
Tips
- In order to manually publish project data from the EPS page, Publication Services must be enabled and configured.
- You can publish all open projects by clicking Publish Projects on the Actions menu of the Activities page. You can also publish projects by selecting one or more projects on the EPS page, and then using the right-click menu.
- Projects are not immediately published. Instead, they will be added to the queue of projects being processed for publication the next time the Publish Projects service runs. View settings for the Publish Projects service, including how often the service runs, on the Services page, which is located on the Application Settings pane. Depending on your security privileges, the Application Settings pane may not be accessible. You can check the status of the Publish Projects service after it has been added to the service queue by selecting View Service Status from the Administer menu.
- If some of the selected projects are not enabled for publication, only those projects enabled for publication will be submitted to the service queue. If none of the selected projects is enabled for publication, you will not be able to select the
Publish Projects or Publish Projects option. - A project will be automatically submitted to the service queue if you change the project baseline, calendar, or data date. Projects are also automatically submitted to the queue if you select or clear the Calculate Activity % Complete from activity steps option, or modify the default price/unit value for assignments without activities from the Set Project Preferences dialog box available from the Actions menu the EPS page.
- You can delete published project data by selecting Delete Published Data on the Actions menu of the EPS page.