Primavera Gateway is an application that facilitates sharing and synchronizing project, resource, and other data between Primavera applications and enterprise applications. By using providers, which are used as a channel to connect with the corresponding software application, Primavera Gateway enables you to combine management and scheduling functionality of Primavera applications with other enterprise software. Providers can reside on either side of a data flow connecting a source application with a destination application.
Data can be exchanged between P6 and Unifier using any of the following workflows:
- Using the P6 EPPM application user interface.
For more details on how this is accomplished, refer to the P6 EPPM user documentation.
- Using the Primavera Gateway user interface
Sign in to the Primavera Gateway user interface as an administrator, to set up business flows and schedule synchronization jobs between the two applications. For more details on how to perform these tasks, see the following sections and the Primavera Gateway Online Help.
To enable integration, the following providers are delivered with Primavera Gateway:
- Unifier provider
The Unifier provider enables you to get data for the cost modules, Cost Sheet, Cash Flow, and earned value data from P6 application. It also enables exchange of P6 schedules' activity data between the two applications. Primavera Gateway supports this integration with the P6 provider.
- P6 provider
The P6 provider enables you to share activity data and summarized schedule data for duration based schedules, resource loaded schedules and cost loaded schedules with Primavera Unifier. Primavera Gateway supports this integration with the Unifier provider.
Integrating P6 with Unifier enables sharing of cost details for projects scheduled in P6 EPPM. The Gateway application facilitates the integration process.
- File provider
The File provider enables you to send and receive data to and from a file in either XML or CSV file formats. For more details on setting up an integration with the File provider, refer to the Primavera Gateway File Provider Setup Guide.
Within our documentation, some content might be specific for cloud deployments while other content is relevant for on-premises deployments. Any content that applies to only one of these deployments is labeled accordingly.
This guide describes how to setup:
- The integration environment to enable data exchange between P6 and Unifier.
- The available business objects, field mapping templates, source and destination application parameters, business flows, and synchronizations, delivered out-of-the-box in the Gateway user interface.
IT professionals or administration personnel who are responsible for setting up the integration environment, and Gateway developers responsible for creating field-mapping templates, and business flows in the Gateway user interface for your organization should use this guide.