Publication Services
Data in the P6 Extended Schema is calculated and stored by Publication Services, which gives administrators control over when data is calculated and stored in the P6 Extended Schema. Publication Services exist for project and global data. Global data includes enterprise data, as well as resource and role, portfolio, security and audit data. Project data includes all information about projects and baselines, including summaries and calculations.
The Publish Project service is dedicated to publishing project and baseline data to the P6 Extended Schema.
Note: The Publish Project service recalculates and publishes all project business objects containing calculated or denormalized data including, but not limited to: the WBS, activities, resource/role assignments, high-level planning assignments, relationships, risks, documents, expenses, steps, milestones, UDF values, notes, issues, budget change logs, timesheets, code assignments, funding source assignments.
These additional Publication Services publish global data to the P6 Extended Schema:
- Publish Audit Data
- Publish Enterprise Data
- Project Data
- Activity Data
- Resource Data
- Calendar Data
- Enterprise Data dictionary definitions
- Publish Enterprise Summaries
- Publish Resource Management
- Publish Security
The first time a data type is published to the P6 Extended Schema all data is recalculated and published to the extended schema tables. After a data type has been published for the first time, future publication services recalculate and publish only data that has changed since the last time that data was published.
When any of the publication services runs, each business object type processed by the service is individually timestamped, and the timestamp stored in the database. The services can accurately determine exactly which data has changed since the last time it was published using these timestamps because they exist at the individual business object type level.
Configure Publication Services in P6 as follows:
- Set up automatic publication and enable P6 to publish project and global data on the Services page in Application settings.
- Enable the types of global data to be scheduled in Global Scheduled Services.
- Disable or enable publication for a selected project on the Services page in Project Preferences.
- Add, verify the status of, modify, or delete project management services on the Project Scheduled Services page.
Tip
Run the global data services before turning on the Project Arbiter service.
Last Published Wednesday, December 13, 2023