Users do not have to be administrators on their machines to run P6 Professional. Instead, you can grant minimum permissions to create a more secure environment.
The default installation folder for P6 Professional is:
local drive\Program Files\Oracle\Primavera P6\P6 Professional
However, because the install location can be modified, we will refer instead to \\<Install directory>\ in these instructions.
The following list summarizes the minimum system requirements needed to access and run components of P6 Professional Version 22:
Files within Folders:
To run P6 Professional, users require Read & Execute permissions for the following files:
- \\<Install directory>\
dbexpsda40.dll
dbexpsqlite40.dll
dbexpoda40.dll
dbxadapter.dll
To log into P6 Professional applications, users require Read&Execute/Read/Write permissions to access the ini file.
- \\<Install directory>\Data\pm.ini
To run the Database Configuration setup and the Primavera P6 Administrator users require Read&Execute/Read permissions for the following files:
- \\<Install directory>\
dbconfig.exe
primavera.adminconfig.exe
During installation, the PrmBootStrapV2.xml file is copied from the install location to the user location. It will also be copied to this location if it is not present when P6 Professional starts or during database configuration. The version of the file stored in the install location will never be modified while using P6 Professional, so it can be copied to the current user location if you need to revert P6 Professional back to its original state (for example, if files become corrupted).
- To run P6 Professional, users require Read permission to the following file:
\\<Install directory>\Data\ PrmBootStrapV2.xml
- To run P6 Professional, users require Read&Execute/Read/Write permissions to the following file:
%APPDATA%\Oracle\Primavera P6\P6 Professional\<VERSION>\PrmBootStrapV2.xml
- To export data and for log files to be created, users require Read&Execute/Read/Write permissions to any location that will be used as an output directory. Depending on your configuration, this might include the %APPDATA% and %LOCALAPPDATA% directories.