Configuring P6 EPPM Publication Services Settings

To configure and run publication services in P6 EPPM:

Sign in to P6 EPPM as a user.
http://<host>:<port>/p6/action/login

Note: Ensure you have the following security privileges: Edit Application Settings, Administer Global Scheduled Services, and Administer Project Scheduled Services global security privileges.
Click Administration.
On the Administration navigation bar, click Application Settings.
In the Application Settings page, select Services in the sidebar.
In the Publication area, use the following fields to set the amount and frequency of data updates in the P6 EPPM Extended Schema.
- Start Date: Enter the start date for all time-distributed data published.
- Finish date is current date plus: Enter the rolling end date for all time-distributed data published.
- Time distributed interval: Enter the spread data bucket types (day or week).
In the Project Publication section, select the Enable Publish Projects option. This option must be marked to publish projects and to run the Check Overallocation service. You should not enable Publish Projects until all projects that you have selected are ready for publication.
Configure the remaining fields in this section as needed for your data. For more details on configuring these options, see P6 Help.

The projects that qualify for publication publish to P6 EPPM Extended Schema.

Note: To verify the status of each project publication job in P6, click the User menu and select View Service Status.