Publishing P6 Project Data On Demand

You can publish the data from projects on demand. Projects are added to the queue of projects being processed for publication the next time the Publish Projects service runs. You can check the status of the Publish Projects service after it has been added to the service queue by selecting View Service Status from the User menu. When you publish projects on demand, any of the projects' baselines which is enabled for publishing will also be published. Only projects enabled for publication are published.

To publish P6 project data on demand:

1. On the Navigation Menu, expand Projects and click EPS.
2. On the EPS page:
   1. On the Actions menu, click Publish Projects.

Tip:

• In order to manually project data from the EPS page on demand, Publication Services must be enabled and configured.
• You can publish all open projects by clicking Publish Projects on the Actions menu of the Activities page. Alternatively, you can publish projects by selecting one or more projects on the EPS page, and then using the right-click menu. You can also delete published data for all open projects by selecting Delete Published Data on the Actions menu of the Activities page.
• If you have permission to view application settings, you can see the settings for the Publish Projects service, including how often the service runs, on the Global tab of the Secheduled Services page.
• A project will be automatically submitted to the service queue if you change the project baseline, calendar, or data date. Projects are also automatically submitted to the queue if you select or clear the Calculate Activity % Complete from activity steps option, or modify the default price/unit value for assignments without activities from the Set Project Preferences dialog box available from the Actions menu the EPS page.