Running the Project Checker

Run the Project Checker to assess the health of the data that constitutes projects. The Project Checker looks for data that violates unique and foreign key constraints and business rules. You must be logged in to P6 as a user with the Admin Superuser global security profile to run the Project Checker.

To run the Project Checker:

1. On the Navigation Menu, expand Projects and click Activities.
2. Click the Actions menu and select Project Checker.
3. In the Project Checker dialog box:
   1. In the Project Selection field, select Select
      • In the Select Project dialog box, select the projects to check and click Select.
   2. On the Options list, select the checks to run.
   3. Optionally select the Limit report rows option to reduce the size of the report.

      If you selected to limit the rows returned by the report, in the Maximum Rows field, select the maximum number of rows you want to return for each check in the report.

   4. Select Run.

Tip:

• To download the report, click the link in the View Service Status tab.
• You can also schedule the Project Checker to run at a time you specify. If you run the Project Checker as a Project Scheduled Service, you can specify that the report should be sent by email to the addresses you supply when the check is complete.