Configuring Application Settings in the Primavera P6 Administrator

To set your application settings:

Open the Primavera P6 Administrator.
In the Configurations drop-down list, select your configuration.
In the sidebar select Application/General.
Do the following to configure your general application settings:
1. Select Ignore Daylight Savings Time to recognize daylight savings time or leave the field clear to ignore it.
  Notes:
  - This setting will also impact P6 Team Member. If you notice dates and tasks are off by an hour in your P6 Team Member interfaces, the time difference could be caused by this setting.
  - Changes to this setting require you to restart the P6 server.
2. Select Allow Auto-Summarize Option to allow automatic summarization to be available in Resource Staffing user preferences.
3. Select Use HTTP POST for Custom Portlets to use HTTP POST requests instead of GET requests when loading custom portlets.
4. Select Enable Cross Site Scripting Filter to allow P6 EPPM to check for unsafe http requests from the browser and unsafe responses from P6, including requested documents. P6 EPPM considers requests and responses that contain JavaScript that P6 did not generate unsafe.
  The browser will display an error message for all unsafe page requests. Internet Explorer 7 will show an error message if users attempt to download an unsafe document. Internet Explorer 8 and Firefox will prompt users to download the document file instead of viewing the document directly in the P6 browser.
5. Select Enable Cross Site Request Forgery Checking (CSRF) to allow CSRF for your environment.
6. Select Enable Session Hijack Checking to allow hijack checking.
7. In the Maximum Transactions for Excel Import of Resources field, enter the maximum number of transactions (activities or resources) that can be imported at once from an .xls or .csv file.
  The default value is 2000.
  
  Enter a value between 100 and 2000.
8. In the Database Dropdown Key field, enter the keyword to use for enabling database selection control in the login page. Pass this as a URL parameter db=keyword. See Manage Access to Multiple Database Instances for more information.
  Set this to an empty string if you do not want to require the keyword.
  
  You can also use the value you specify as the keyword to bypass the database requirement when logging in to the server for P6. For example, https://serverIP:listenport/login?db=bypass
9. In the Logout URL field, enter a specific URL that appears when the user exits with the Logout/Close icon in the banner of P6. You can use any valid URL.
  If you are using WebSSO, Oracle recommends you set the Logout URL to your SSO server's logout page to end the current SSO session.
  
  If you do not specify a URL, P6 directs the user to the launch page of P6.
  
  Note: If you selected the "Don't show this again" option when you used the SSO login screen, that screen will not reappear after you logout then try to log back in. To get it to reappear, you need to clear the cookies for P6.
10. In the Hide Empty Project or WBS Threshold field, enter the maximum number of projects which the user can open before empty projects and WBS nodes will be hidden in the Activities view.
11. In the Custom Portlet URL Encryption Key field, enter Encryption key for custom portlet user password.
  In the Dashboards page of P6, users can create custom portlets. Depending on the target, P6 can pass the password of the currently logged on user to the target application. By default, the password is not encrypted. Use this setting to encrypt the password.
  
  Notes:
  - Assigning a key encrypts the password that is part of the URL for a custom portlet.
  - The value can be any alphanumeric character or string of characters.
  - This encryption uses the Sun/Blowfish algorithm.
  - Changes to this setting require you to restart the P6 server.
  - See the P6 Help for more information on custom portlets.
12. In the Transaction Monitor Execution Interval field, enter how often the transaction monitor job will run. This will ensure there are no orphan transactions.
  The default value is 10m.
  
  Enter a value between 1s and 24d20h31m23s647.
  
  Note: Changes to this setting require you to restart the P6 server.
13. In the P6 Help Server URL field, enter the URL used to launch P6 Help.
  The default URL points to the version of the help hosted by Oracle. In contains the most up-to-date documentation.
  
  Note: If you prefer to use the local version of the P6 Help, you can use the local host URL. You can use the local help only if you installed and deployed the p6help.war file in WebLogic.
  
  Example format:
  
  http://<server_name>:<listen_port>/<context_root>
  
  The URL might be case-sensitive, depending on your application server configuration.
14. In the TM Help Server URL field, enter the URL used to launch P6 Team Member Help.
  The default URL points to the version hosted by Oracle. It contains the most up-to-date documentation.
  
  Note: If you prefer to use the local version of the P6 Team Member Help, you can use the local host URL. You can use the local help only if you installed and deployed the p6tmhelp.war file in WebLogic.
  
  The URL might be case-sensitive, depending on your application server configuration.
15. System Administration Help Server URL - enter the URL for system administration help.

Example format:

http://<server_name>:<listen_port>/<context_root>

Configuring Application Settings in the Primavera P6 Administrator

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