Have Problem Listing Open End Activities In Primavera P6

If you want to list up open-end activities in Primavera P6 and you can’t find any option in p6. A simple way is exporting activity relation detail to excel and separate predecessor with only SS successor. But that is a too lengthy process because at times you don’t know what formulas to apply in excel for fast working.  In excel one predecessor can have more than one successor. So you have to select predecessors with fully SS relation successors only.  Download are free to use schedule viewer from www.xerviewer.co.uk . We have a project health check section which provides various checks including ‘ACTIVITIES WITHOUT SUCCESSORS’

There is a checkbox under this section where you can include or exclude activities with SS successors only. You can then export the activities to excel.  Hope this would be of great help for you on your project. You can still contact our experts if you face any ambiguity on provided email addresses globally or contact to the vendor who provided you with the software.

Here are some problems that you might face and we are giving solution to it in advance so that our blogs could be of great help for you. If you use the above mentioned schedule viewer which is, www.xerviewer.co.uk and if it proves to be good there might a problem arise that it shows activities without predecessors or successors. It might not show open end activities. Only showing milestone activities with no successors and predecessors, this might create a lot of confusion or ambiguity. The problem can be, your, not tagging the checkbox. Consider, start to logic as missing.

Done. The other problem can be how to export that list to excel. When you try to export the whole project is exporting. Well that is a big issue but you need not to worry. When all the project activities are exporting including those without successors but you just want to export the list, not the Gantt then what you need to do is after clicking export and the options box comes up, you ought to select ‘expand to level 1’ and deselect the ‘ draw Gantt option’.

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Another problem that can rise is, what can be the formula or any other method for extracting SS relation activities in excel. The solution is using the formula count if (). You could sum up the total number of successors for each activity ID and the subtract the number of SS successors.

Another problem can be with the registration code being invalid there can be multiple reasons of it but one that have been commonly witnessed is moving or copying the existing file if you have copied or moved the file, the new file would need it’s own registration key. For the key that has been generated to you, you must use it for the existing file and not for any have new, moved or copied file.

Integrating Primavera P6 with Project Portfolio Management

Oracle Primavera P6 can be very useful if integrated with social media, websites and other enterprise systems. It can greatly help in revamping management processes, improving transparency of available information and reduce costs. However, the transition may not sound very easy for a lot of IT departments.

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The canvas of functionalities given to Primavera P6 is very wide. It is fully capable of assisting management in complete prioritization, planning, management and execution of projects. It is able to leverage responsibilities, skills, and role-based functionalities. The Enterprise Project Portfolio Management can singlehandedly adapt to various levels of dynamism and complexity involved in various projects. Besides, its ability to be scaled up to multiple projects and any number of users in different roles make it the most comprehensive project management tool available.
MGS can handle variety of projects for customers. It is able to handle both small and large scale projects of customers. You can now integrate Oracle’s Primavera Enterprise Project Portfolio Management via iBOLT Integration suit for CRM, ERP and proprietary systems.
Project management needs methodology and discipline to ensure a project gets completed successfully. The ability to execute disciplined project management skills involves deployment of right application platform and technologies. Integration of operational systems with project management systems plays a pivotal role in effectiveness of a project management office.
The integration requirements and patterns differ from one organization to another. Different organizations deploy various enterprise systems as per their specific needs. One piece of information updated in one system is automatically updated into another system. Similarly, associating one completed activity with another is very important for an ERP system. There can be several examples quoted in this regard like hourly billing, milestone payments, and threshold payments.
The rules and criteria in which one organization works usually differs from that of another. The visual configurable business flow tools are well suited for this kind of integration. Organizations need to work with these tools to optimize various IT processes in order to effectively support the Project Management Office. Make sure the business processes which are supporting PMO are well integrated otherwise you may need to start introducing your own integration processes.
Conclusion
The experience working with various technologies is critically important as it helps understand other factors involved which may include creation of detailed mapping requirements, defining business rules, utilization of use case scenarios, and normalization of data. The understanding developed for Primavera P6 is only part of the entire integration process. In order to get a grasp of everything, hiring expert for everything is very costly. The best way forward is to outsource the work.

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