Global Scheduled Services Page

Overview

Use this page to configure P6 to automatically publish any of the following types of global data to use in reporting.

Enterprise Data: Enterprise level business objects containing calculated and denormalized fields, including cost accounts, funding sources, resource teams, role teams, timesheet dates, and User Defined Fields.
- Project: This includes the EPS, Project Codes, user assignments of project codes, periodic budgets for projects and WBS elements, budget change logs for projects and WBS elements, and project descriptions. The affected tables are as follows (the PMDB table is listed first and the associated Px follows in parentheses): pfolio (Pfoliox), pcattype (Projectcodehierarchy), pcatval (Pcatvalx), pcatuser (Pcatuserx), wbsbudg (wbsbudgx), budgchng (budgchngx), and WbsNote (wbsmemox)
- Activity: This includes Activity Code Types and Activity Code Values. The affected tables are as follows (the PMDB table is listed first and the associated Px follows in parentheses): actvtype (Activitycodehierarchy), actvcode (Actvcodex).
- Resource: This includes resource portfolios, role portfolios, resource code types and values, role code types and values, resource curve definitions and assignments, and timesheet data. The affected tables are as follows (the PMDB table is listed first and the associated Px follows in parentheses): rfolio (Rfoliox), rcattype (Resourcecodehierarchy), rcatval (Rcatvalx), rsrccurv (Rsrccurvx), rsrcrcat (Rsrcrcatx), rsrchour (Timeshtx), and Timesht (Timeshtx).
- Calendar: This includes global, project, and resource calendars. The affected tables are as follows (the PMDB table is listed first and the associated Px follows in parentheses): calendar (Calendar).
- Enterprise Data Dictionary: This includes cost accounts, currency information, project funding information, reports, user defined codes, and the data stored in user defined code values. The affected tables are as follows (the PMDB table is listed first and the associated Px follows in parentheses): account (Costaccounthierarchy), currtype (Currtypex), udfcode (Udfcodex), and UserDefinedFieldValue (udfvaluex).
Enterprise Summary Data: EPS-level spread data for currently published projects in a given EPS.
Resource Management Data: The resource hierarchy, resources, resource rates, resource limits, role rates, resource role assignments, and resource security.
Security Data: Users, the OBS, security profiles and security for the P6 Extended Schema.
Audit Data: Information gathered during table and project auditing.
Note: Audit data for blob fields is not published with the global scheduled service.

Screen Elements

Run Service button

Schedules the selected service to run immediately.

View Log button

Enables you to view the log for the most recent run of the selected service.

 Refresh

Refreshes the current screen with any new, updated, or removed data.

Move Up button

Moves the selected item closer to the top of the list.

Move Down button

Moves the selected item closer to the bottom of the list.

Full Screen

Expands the current work area so it fills the entire display.

Search

Enables you to perform a search based on the value you enter in the search bar.

Name field

The title of the scheduled service.

Enabled option

Determines whether a service can be scheduled.

Status field

The status of the service.

Statuses include:

Pending: When the service was just created or if the service is waiting in queue to be run.

Running: When the service is running on the service machine.

Failed: When the service cannot complete, an error occurs, or data could not be committed.

Complete: When the service completes successfully.

Last Run field

The last time the service ran.

Next Run field

The next time the service is scheduled to run.

Service Settings detail window

See: Service Settings Detail Window.

Service Summary detail window

See: Service Summary Detail Window

Tips

You must have the Administer Global Scheduled Services privilege to modify settings on the Global Scheduled Services page. If you have the appropriate security privileges, you can assign a user this privilege on the User Administration Global Security Profiles page available from the Administration tab.

Getting Here

Click Administration.
On the Administration navigation bar, click Scheduled Services.
On the Scheduled Services page, click Global.

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