The P6 Team Member is designed for individual contributors, or team members, to record their statuses and report their time using timesheets. Team members can also use Email Statusing Service and P6 mobile to status their activities. P6 mobile allows access to P6 Team Member Web functionality. P6 Team Member Web, Email Statusing Service and the P6 mobile apps provide quick, convenient, and easy access to assigned activities using the platform or device that accommodates your line of work.
Your project manager uses P6 to create and update the project schedule and activity list. Depending on the project preferences the manager selected when creating the project in P6, the updates you make in the P6 Team Member Web, Email Statusing Service or P6 mobile will either apply immediately or require approval before they are applied to the project.
Work assignments in P6 Team Member are based on work distribution filters, or a team member being named as a resource assignment or an activity owner. As a team member, the P6 Team Member interfaces and the P6 mobile apps enable you to:
- View only your assigned activities.
- Provide status on your activities. The project manager customizes the status fields in your view. These fields can include time spent, time left, % complete, remaining duration, start date, and finish date.
Timesheets enable project team members to use the web to communicate timesheets and activity statuses directly to their organization's database, regardless of their location. this ensure that project managers are always working with the most up-to-date project information, making it easier to plan resources or resolve conflicts.
P6 Team Member Web
You can use P6 Team Member Web to:
- View only your assigned activities.
- Provide status updates on your activities. The project manager customizes the status fields in your view. These fields may include time spent, time left, % complete, remaining duration, start date, and finish date.
- Provide status updates for other resources assigned to activities.
- Modify your view to display your activity list by project and by current status, including Active, Due, Overdue, Starred, or Completed. You can refine your activity list even further by filtering on the basis of specific parameters, entering a term by which to filter, or providing a sort order for your list.
- Mark an activity with a star to signify its importance to you. You can view all your starred activities in one list when you select the Starred activity list view in the app menu.
- View a list of all your steps for an activity. Add, edit, or delete steps to more accurately reflect your work, if you are given the privileges by your project manager. You can enter the % complete to show progress and mark a step as complete when you finish a step.
- View the codes and UDFs associated with an activity for additional information about the activity. Update codes and UDFs if your project manager requires you to update activity status using these fields.
- View the baseline dates for an activity.
- View predecessor and successor activity related to an activity and contact resources associated with related activities.
- Communicate with the project manager or other team members through email.
- Communicate with the project manager about an activity by viewing and posting messages in the Discussion dialog box. All messages are saved with the selected activity.
- View and edit notebook topics associated with an activity to see or provide more information about the activity.
- View documents associated with an activity and contact resources associated with project documents.
- Enter up-to-the-minute information about your assignments and to record the time you spent working on each one, by submitting timesheets. Timesheets helps you to focus on the work at hand with a simple cross-project to-do list of your upcoming assignments.
Email Statusing Service
You can use Email Statusing Service to:
- Request a list of your current activities through email using the email account associated with your P6 user account. You can request a filtered list of activities by project; time frame; current status, including Active, Due, Overdue, Completed, or Starting; or by all the activities that you starred.
- Reply to the email you receive with your activity list, record your progress, and send your updates.
Project managers can use Email Statusing Service to:
- Send a Welcome email to new Email Statusing Service users, which includes the email address to the email Statusing Service, and instructions for requesting an activity list and updating the list through email.
- Send team members an email request for status updates. Project managers can customize the activity list sent to team members using the available filter options. Team members can provide status by replying to the email with their updates.