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Oracle Primavera P6 Version 8: Project and Portfolio Management

You're reading from   Oracle Primavera P6 Version 8: Project and Portfolio Management For project managers and consultants, this book will help you master the main elements of Primavera P6, together with the new features in Version 8. Lots of screenshots and clear explanations make for an easy ride.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2012
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849684682
Length 348 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Oracle Primavera P6 Version 8: Project and Portfolio Management
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Getting Started with Oracle Primavera P6 FREE CHAPTER 2. Getting Around: Understanding and Customizing the P6 Interface 3. Organizing your Projects with EPS, OBS, and WBS 4. Creating a New Project and Work Breakdown Structure 5. Adding Activities and Relationships 6. Resources 7. Scheduling and Constraints 8. Issues and Risks 9. Baselines and Statusing 10. Project Templates 11. Portfolios 12. Portfolio Analysis 13. Measuring and Scoring Projects 14. Capacity Planning and ROI 15. Dashboards 16. Resource Management Integrations Reporting Index

Setting project properties


Project properties are set by going to the Project screen, choosing the project, and choosing Project Details. This will bring up a window as shown in the following screenshot in the lower half of the screen:

By default, not all of the tabs are shown in this screenshot. To add and remove tabs from the project details screen, right-click anywhere in the Details tab and choose Customize Project Details….

General

The General tab lets you set certain high-level information about the project. While the Project ID, Project Name, and Responsible Manager were entered in the wizard screens, they may be changed here as well.

Project Status can be set to one of four values:

  • Planned: Progress Reporter users cannot access the activities

  • Active: Progress Reporter users can access activities

  • Inactive: Progress Reporter cannot access activities

  • What-if: Progress Reporter users cannot access activities, and closed projects will not show in resource profiles

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