Use the Dictionaries toolbar to access dialog boxes in which you can view, add, edit, and delete enterprise-level dictionary data, such as codes, user-defined fields (UDFs), calendars, and resource curves.
By default, this toolbar is not displayed.
The following table provides information about each available icon on the toolbar.
Icon | Function | Corresponding menu command |
|---|---|---|
| Opens the Resource Codes dialog box. Use the Resource Codes dialog box to create, edit, and delete resource codes. You can use these codes to sort, filter, group, and report on project data across the enterprise. | Enterprise > Resource Codes |
| This icon appears only when P6 Professional is connected to a P6 Professional database. Opens the Project Codes dialog box. Use the Project Codes dialog box to create, edit, and delete global and project codes and values. Use these codes and values to sort, filter, group, and report activity information. | Enterprise > Project Codes |
| Opens the Activity Codes dialog box. Use the Activity Codes dialog box to create, edit, and delete global, project, and EPS activity codes and values. Use these codes and values to sort, filter, group, and report activity information. You can also use this dialog box to assign colors to activity code values, only in the context of Visualizer drawings, to activity code values. See Activity codes and values for more information. | Enterprise > Activity Codes |
| Opens the User Defined Fields dialog box. Use the User Defined Fields dialog box to add an unlimited number of custom fields and values to the project database. | Enterprise > User Defined Fields |
| Opens the Calendars dialog box. Use the Calendars dialog box to create, edit, and delete global, project, and resource calendars. You can also view calendar assignments, and you can specify a default global calendar. | Enterprise > Calendars |
| Opens the Resource Shifts dialog box. Use the Resource Shifts dialog box to define shift calendars for resources. | Enterprise > Resource Shifts |
| This icon appears only when P6 Professional is connected to a P6 Professional database. Opens the Activity Step Templates dialog box. Use the Activity Step Templates dialog box to create templates containing groups of steps common to multiple activities. You can then assign these templates to activities. | Enterprise > Activity Step Templates |
| This icon appears only when P6 Professional is connected to a P6 Professional database. Opens the Cost Accounts dialog box. Use the Cost Accounts dialog box to maintain your organization's cost accounts. You can assign these cost accounts to activities in any project. | Enterprise > Cost Accounts |
| This icon appears only when P6 Professional is connected to a P6 Professional database. Opens the Funding Sources dialog box. Use the Funding Sources dialog box to set up a funding sources dictionary containing any non-profit, government-allocated, or other funding sources for easy assignment to budget items. | Enterprise > Funding Sources |
| Opens the Resource Curves dialog box. Use the Resource Curves dialog box to add, delete, or modify resource curves. Curves are used to allocate resources and costs over the duration of an activity. | Enterprise > Resource Curves |
Tips
- All of the icons on this toolbar display by default, and are always enabled, when you choose to show the toolbar.
- The icons on this toolbar do not have corresponding shortcut keys.