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P6-Auditor v4- How to Find What Happened to a Missing Activity Code

In P6 we sometimes discover data anomalies that do not make sense and need to find out what happened. Emerald’s P6-Auditor tool provides an easy and quick way to investigate these anomalies. The P6-Auditor reads the data in the P6 audit tables in a spreadsheet format, making these tables much more legible and searchable.

Let’s take a look at how to go about finding what has happened to an activity code that is no longer in our project that once contained values for the activity code.

PCM-Archiver v5 - New Release

Our latest version of PCM-Archiver makes it easier than ever before to extract projects from PCM.

July 24, 2021

Our latest version of PCM-Archiver makes it easier than ever before to extract projects from PCM.

New Features

  • Progressive Extraction - the ability to progressively build the archive of the contents of a PCM database over time, by merging the extractions of different projects and modules into the same pre-configured target folder.

  • Online license activation

  • Extraction summary in Excel format with statistics and any failures

  • Automatic refresh of tasks in the web interface

  • Ability to extract the items into a hierarchy or a flat list

Enhancements

  • Easier to see if an extraction has failed or not

  • No more managing and moving zip files

  • Better information on status of extraction

  • Better control over the extraction process by not having to start from scratch every time

P6-Loader v11 - New Release

Our latest version of the P6-Loader brings a new user-interface with the ability to save extract definition and new version 20 support, as well as UDF merging.

June 30, 2021

Written by Ravi Wallau

Our latest version of the P6-Loader brings a new user-interface with the ability to save extract definition and new version 20 support, as well as UDF merging.

New Features

  • New user-interface component with the ability to quickly search modules and projects

  • Added the ability to save frequently used extractions

  • Customizing columns to include in extraction files

  • UDF merge utility - allows you to easily merge UDF values - useful when importing XER/ XML files from different sources

Enhancements

  • New UI - The P6-Loader is now a React application with a completely redesigned look and feel

  • Uses the Emerald Cloud API for better controls of business functions

TAPS v11 - New Release

Our latest version of the Turnaround Progressing System brings a fresh UI to mobile, activity searches and enhanced sorting and filtering capabilities.

May 10, 2021

Our latest version of the Turnaround Progressing System brings a fresh UI to mobile, activity searches and enhanced sorting and filtering capabilities.

New Features

  • Mobile - New search function allows you to find your activities fast with sorting and filtering capabilities.

  • Mobile - Allows you to configure the percentages (25%, 50%, 100% or any amount you like) that can be assigned to activities. Automatically saved with your other settings.

Enhancements

  • Mobile - Completely redesigned look and feel for an even better user experience.

  • Desktop - Improved controls to sort and filter your activities in the browser.

  • New technology changes for better performance

P6-Loader v10 - New Release

Version 10 of the P6-Loader now uses the Cloud API, a programming platform developed by Emerald to allow our apps to work with either the P6 API or the P6 Web Services. It also streamlines restoring and reassigning baselines and initiated support for the new P6 v20 objects.

May 3, 2021

Written by Ravi Wallau

Version 10 of the P6-Loader now uses the Cloud API, a programming platform developed by Emerald to allow our apps to work with either the P6 API or the P6 Web Services. It also streamlines restoring and reassigning baselines and initiated support for the new P6 v20 objects.

New Features

  • Restoring and reassigning baselines streamlined

  • The P6-Loader now uses the Cloud API, a programming platform developed by Emerald to allow our apps to work with either the P6 API or the P6 Web Services

  • The resource spread periods can now be imported correctly - in some cases, the spread information would not be imported correctly

  • Baseline projects can now be moved across projects more easily

  • A baseline can be assigned as the current baseline of the project in the baseline sheet itself

  • New Primavera v20 objects - financial period calendars, new role rates, resource assignment and role codes

Enhancements

  • Better session handling. The P6-Loader will disconnect properly from the P6 database when a session is no longer needed.

P6-Auditor v4 - New Release

Our latest version of P6-Auditor has a new look and feel making auditing definitions easier and faster to build.

April 8, 2021

Our latest version of P6-Auditor has a new look and feel, making auditing definitions easier and faster to build.

New Features

  • New simplified user interface to make it easier to audit data

  • Filtering on each column right on screen

  • Control of the column ordering for each reporting area

  • Saving of the definitions for quick reusability

Enhancements

  • Field naming makes tool more user friendly

  • User management improvement

Why You Should Upgrade From Oracle Primavera Risk Analysis to Safran Risk – Part 6

I’m Ian Nicholson, VP Solutions at Emerald Associates. I have been working with Oracle Primavera Risk Analysis (OPRA) since 2001 when it was Pertmaster, Emerald being the exclusive Canadian distributor for Pertmaster until their acquisition by Primavera in 2006.

In this series of blogs, I will explain why I feel that all OPRA users should upgrade to Safran Risk (SR).

Why You Should Upgrade From Oracle Primavera Risk Analysis to Safran Risk – Part 5

I’m Ian Nicholson, VP Solutions at Emerald Associates. I have been working with Oracle Primavera Risk Analysis (OPRA) since 2001 when it was Pertmaster, Emerald being the exclusive Canadian distributor for Pertmaster until their acquisition by Primavera in 2006.

In this series of blogs, I will explain why I feel that all OPRA users should upgrade to Safran Risk (SR).

Is the P6-QA Tool Only Relevant During Your Planning Phase? Absolutely Not!

Something we are asked is whether our P6-QA Tool is useful through-out the life cycle of your projects. Its use throughout the planning phase is obvious, of course; it helps with schedule development. Even after you’ve planned out your work though, the QA tool can help while you’re executing your plans. Let us examine a couple examples of how.

Keep in mind - it is beneficial to equip your team with the best tools for the job! Work Smarter, Not Harder!

CAPPS - v10 Release

Introducing CAPPS Version 10.0

Release brings user controls and layouts to the tool

May 27, 2020

Introducing CAPPS Version 10.0

Release brings user controls and layouts to the tool

New Features

  • On-Screen - Layout Saving

  • On-Screen - Column Controls

  • On-Screen - Filtering Controls

  • On-Screen - Sorting Controls

  • On-Screen - Tab Controls

  • Configurable - P6 Columns for Baselines, Total Float

  • Configurable - Columns to Include UDFs and Codes

Enhancements

  • Performance Improvements

  • Support for Brave Browser

  • Notebook Improvements for Feedback

Why You Should Upgrade From Oracle Primavera Risk Analysis to Safran Risk – Part 4

I’m Ian Nicholson, VP Solutions at Emerald Associates. I have been working with Oracle Primavera Risk Analysis (OPRA) since 2001 when it was Pertmaster, Emerald being the exclusive Canadian distributor for Pertmaster until their acquisition by Primavera in 2006.

In this series of blogs, I will explain why I feel that all OPRA users should upgrade to Safran Risk (SR).

Why You Should Upgrade From Oracle Primavera Risk Analysis to Safran Risk – Part 3

I’m Ian Nicholson, VP Solutions at Emerald Associates. I have been working with Oracle Primavera Risk Analysis (OPRA) since 2001 when it was Pertmaster, Emerald being the exclusive Canadian distributor for Pertmaster until their acquisition by Primavera in 2006.

In this series of blogs, I will explain why I feel that all OPRA users should upgrade to Safran Risk (SR).

Why You Should Upgrade From Oracle Primavera Risk Analysis to Safran Risk – Part 2

I’m Ian Nicholson, VP Solutions at Emerald Associates. I have been working with Oracle Primavera Risk Analysis (OPRA) since 2001 when it was Pertmaster, Emerald being the exclusive Canadian distributor for Pertmaster until their acquisition by Primavera in 2006.

In this series of blogs, I will explain why I feel that all OPRA users should upgrade to Safran Risk (SR).

Why You Should Upgrade From Oracle Primavera Risk Analysis to Safran Risk – Part 1

I’m Ian Nicholson, VP Solutions at Emerald Associates. I have been working with Oracle Primavera Risk Analysis (OPRA) since 2001 when it was Pertmaster, as Emerald was the exclusive Canadian distributor for Pertmaster until their acquisition by Primavera in 2006.

In this series of blogs, I will explain why I feel that all OPRA users should upgrade to Safran Risk Analysis (SR).

CAPPS - v09 Release

Latest release makes updating and approving easy

February 4, 2020

Latest release makes updating and approving easy

New Features

  • On-Screen - Approvals

  • On-Screen - Rejections

  • On-Screen - feedback status data

  • Configurable - Pre-Filtering for users

  • Configurable - database interactions

Enhancements

  • Performance improvements for extracting and loading into CAPPS

  • Support for Chrome Browser

  • Support for IE 10 Browser

  • Technology changes and enhancements