Services Page

Overview

Use this page to configure publication and summarization period settings.

Note: The publisher and summarizer services always use the project baseline for earned value calculations, regardless of the Baseline to be used for earned value calculations setting in each project's preferences. Therefore earned value data viewed in areas of the software using published or summarize data might differ from the same data viewed in areas of the software using live data. For further information see: Summarized, Published, and Live Data Usage in P6

Screen Elements

Publication section:

Start date field

Determines the date on which publication for time-distributed data will begin. Oracle recommends that this value be set to the earliest project start date in the database so that time-distributed reports can be produced for any date range, if your organization reports against past project data. If this value is changed after data has been published, all project and global data will be automatically recalculated.

You must be assigned the Admin Superuser global security profile to edit this field.

Finish date is current date plus list

Determines the future period of time that is added to the current date of the service whenever it runs to determine the finish date for publication of time-distributed data. Data is published covering the period of time that begins with the start date and extends through the finish date. If this setting is changed after data has been published, all project and global data will be automatically republished. Set this value to an interval that will allow users to produce time-distributed reports for a reasonable amount of time in the future. This value should typically be in the 2-5 year range.

For example, if the value is 5 years, time-distributed data will always be published covering the period of time that begins with the value in the Start Date field and extends five years into the future each time a service runs.

You must be assigned the Admin Superuser global security profile to edit this field.

Time distributed interval list

Determines the interval by which time-distributed data will be calculated and stored. If this setting is changed after data has been published, all project and global data will be automatically republished. Set to Day if this level of granularity is required for spread data. Set to Week if performance of the services is most important (this may only be necessary for very large databases). The default setting is Day.

You must be assigned the Admin Superuser global security profile to edit this field.

Project Publication section:

Enable Publish Projects option

Determines whether Publish Projects is enabled. This option must be marked to publish projects and to run the Check Overallocation service. You should not enable Publish Projects until all projects are ready for publication.

You must be assigned the Edit Application Settings security privilege to modify this option.

Publish projects every list

Determines the interval by which projects are polled to be published. The interval should be set to a low number (less than 5 minutes) to ensure that ASAP Publish Project and Check Overallocation services are processed in a timely fashion. However, if your users will not be using these ASAP services, you can set this value higher.

Start Time field

Determines the start time for scheduled jobs when the Publish projects every field contains a value less than 1 day.

Publish a changed project when the...

Number of changes exceeds field

Determines the number of changes that must exist since a project was last published before the Publish Projects service is automatically initiated again.

Time since last publication exceeds field

Determines the time interval that must elapse since a project was last published before the Publish Projects service is automatically initiated again. This setting only applies to projects that have changed during the time interval, but have not exceeded the number of changes threshold and therefore have not yet been automatically queued for publication. Set this value to a timeframe in which your project data must be current in the extended schema tables. For example, if you set this to 24h, this ensures that all projects actively being worked on will be published at least once a day, even if the edit threshold is not passed.

Publish idle projects option

Adds migrated projects to the service queue after your database is upgraded, if your organization is upgrading to P6.

This will publish all your projects in the queue and refresh the available data for reporting. After all projects have been published once, this setting is not applicable, and projects will be submitted to the queue based on the threshold values specified on the Application Settings page. Do not mark this checkbox if you only want to publish projects actively being worked on to the extended schema tables. If your organization does not report against completed projects, it may not be necessary to publish projects not actively being worked on.

Maximum number to publish field

Determines the maximum number of idle projects that can be added to the service queue. This setting is only applicable immediately following an upgrade, when all projects are considered idle.

When all projects have been published, the service queue will no longer be constrained based on this setting.

Publish resource and role data option

Determines whether to allow resource and role data in the Team Usage view to be published for reporting.

Enable Baseline Publication option

Determines whether to allow baseline data to be published for reporting.

Enable Notification Email option

Determines whether to send an email when a publication service fails.

Notification Email address field

Determines the email address which will be sent the notification email.

If this field is left blank, the notification email will be sent to the email address associated with the user who switched on the Enable Notification Email option.

Summarization section:

Summarize by Calendar option

Determines whether to display the summarization periods by calendar.

WBS Level list

Use the list arrow to choose Week or Month.

Resource/Role Assignment list

Use the list arrow to choose Week or Month.

Summarize by Financial Periods option

Determines whether to display the summarization periods by financial periods.

Getting Here

Click Administration.
On the Administration navigation bar, click Application Settings.
On the Application Settings page, click Services.

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