Release 24.4

P6

User Administration Improvements

The User Administration page provides more efficient access to the user count.

Standardize User Settings With Ease

The Copy User Settings dialog box makes it easy to copy settings from one user to multiple other users. For example, you could create template users for different access configurations then copy the user settings from one of the template users to one or more other existing users when you need to set up or change users configurations. The settings you can copy are gathered into the following groups: Module Access, Resource Access, User Interface Views, Global Security Profile, Project Access, and P6 User Preferences. You can copy one or more groups of settings to other users and at the same time you can prevent those users from being able to change their preferences.

Summary Bar Labels Roll Up Data Fields

In the Bars dialog box of the Activities view, the label field on Summary bars shows the value of the field at grouping level. For example, if your view is grouped by WBS and you select Activity Count, then the summary bar will be labelled with the number of activities in the group. However, if you select a WBS UDF, the summary bar will be labelled with the value of the UDF at the group level.

Drag Milestones and Remaining Early Start Date on the Gantt Chart.

You can drag milestones on the Gantt Chart view of the Activities page to apply a Start On or After constraint to the activity. A Start On or After constraint allows your milestone to be held in place at a future time unless scheduling logic pushes it later.

You can drag the Remaining Early Start of an In Progress activity's bar on the Gantt Chart to a later date. If the Remaining Early Start is after the Actual Start date, you can also drag the Remaining Early Start to an earlier date back to and including the Actual Start date for the activity. Dragging the Remaining Early Start does not apply a constraint to the activity, therefore the scheduler can overwrite changes that you make by dragging the Remaining Early Start date of an activity.

P6 Professional

Timesheet Approvals

Resource Managers, Project Managers, and their delegates can use P6 Professional to view, approve, or reject timesheets, view and add Timesheet History Notes, and to send email to the resource who submitted a timesheet. Project Managers and Resource Managers can also select delegates to perform all these actions on their behalf.

Quickly and Easily Unlink Activities

You can unlink activities from their successors and predecessors using the Unlink Activities option in the Edit Menu of the Activities page. You can also right click on the activities and select Unlink Activities. When you select multiple activities and use the unlink option, only the relationships between the selected activities are removed. Relationships between the selected activities and activities that you have not selected remain intact.

Choose Whether to Import Responsible Managers From XER File

Responsible Manager is now available as a data type in the Global tab of the XER import template. By default, P6 Professional will import Responsible Managers with the Keep Existing option, but you can select Do Not Import to prevent Responsible Managers from another OBS structure from being imported into your own. Alternatively you can select Update Existing to ensure your OBS structure us updated when the file is imported.

Improved Clarity in Global Change Reports

The Global Change report now provides the Project ID and WBS code for all changed items, helping you to understand the extent of the changes if you are applying a global change to more than one project.

P6 mobile

View the Description of Steps in P6 for iOS

You can see the descriptions of each step in the Step Details page P6 for iOS.

Limit the Scope of the All filter for Completed Activities in P6 for iOS

When you choose to view all your completed activities, the scope has previously been limited to 30 days. This limit ensures no degradation in performance and also helps you focus on the most relevant activities from a list that could otherwise be extremely long. However sometimes it might be necessary to see activities that were completed more than 30 days ago.

The Timeframe for Completed Activities setting in Settings of P6 for iOS allows you to select your preferred scope for the All filter when viewing completed activities. The options available are 30, 60, 90 or 180 days.

P6 Team Member Web

View the Description of Steps

You can see the descriptions of each step in the Steps section of the Activity Details tab of the progress panel in P6 Team Member Web. You can also see the step description in the Steps dialog box of P6 Team Member Web.

Standard View is the New Default for Timesheets Page

The Standard view is now the default view when a new user opens the Timesheets page of P6 Team Member Web. The Standard View of the Timesheets page, introduced with release 22.6, provides many advantages over the Classic View, including:

If you upgrade from release 22.5 or earlier to 24.4 (or if you have never modified the Default Timesheets View in Application Settings) when you log into P6 Team Member Web and navigate to the Timesheets page, you will see the Standard view by default.

If you have modified the Default Timesheets View in Application Settings and upgrade from release 22.6 or later to 24.4, when you log into P6 Team Member Web and navigate to the Timesheets page, you will see the same view you used last time you used the application.

Classic View of the Timesheets Page Deprecated

The Classic View of the Timesheets page in P6 Team Member Web is supported in this release, but might not be supported in a future release. Oracle recommends using the Standard View of the Timesheets page in P6 Team Member Web.

Limit the Scope of the All filter for Completed Activities

When you choose to view all your completed activities, the scope has previously been limited to 30 days. This limit ensures no degradation in performance and also helps you focus on the most relevant activities from a list that could otherwise be extremely long. However sometimes it might be necessary to see activities that were completed more than 30 days ago.

The Timeframe for Completed Activities setting in the Preferences page of P6 Team Member Web allows you to select your preferred scope for the All filter when viewing completed activities. The options available are 30, 60, 90 or 180 days.

Bug Fixes

For a list of bug fixes made in P6 EPPM in 2024, see My Oracle Support (2996955.1)


Last Published Wednesday, April 10, 2024