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Recovering Deleted Primavera P6 Data - A Client Crisis

Have you ever had a critical piece of data deleted in your Primavera P6 database and needed to recover it?

A client of ours had just this sort of scenario.

The user reached out to us in a panic. This user had just been given increased access in P6 and had renamed an existing UDF. He realized it was renamed improperly and instead of changing the name of the UDF, he deleted it. The project level User Defined Field (UDF) had data assigned to many of their projects. They needed to recover it and ensure the values were reinstated on their projects. We were able to recover the data in less than and hour and a half.

P6-Auditor v5 - New Release

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

May 28, 2023

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

New Features

  • New audits - UDF value, project, activity and code assignments

  • Users can be configured into categories. For example, P6-Internal, Standard, API, or by department, or by whichever criteria is needed. The User Category column is shown in all reports where there is a user column, and it is possible to filter by it.

  • It is possible to configure UDFs and code changes to be reported with the corresponding project, activity or resource record

  • Added the ability to easily limit the range of events retrieved from the server - for example, for the past 5 minutes, 15 minutes, etc.

  • UI changes - the reports are now all shown on the left side of the auditor web application and are grouped by type/subject leaving more space for the reports on the right side of the page

  • The EPS auditing now includes changes made to all records in the PROJWBS table, and it includes a column that shows the type of object that was changed

  • Added the ability to freeze columns. You can freeze 1 to 5 columns and those will always be visible when scrolling.

Enhancements

  • All reports now run faster, and event reports run much faster than before

  • Filters have been improved - when possible, multiple options are shown for the user to select from

  • Reworked the OData implementation on the server, allowing much better control over the columns shown in the client, as well as other improvements

  • Layouts now work properly with audit reports

  • Column order that makes sense across all event reports

  • Profile improvement - the teams of a profile are shown in the profile list and a button that lets you save a profile directly is visible when a profile has changes

Restoring Deleted P6 Data - Never Happens Right?

A solution for common cases of accidental data deletion in Primavera P6

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Accidental deletion of important data is something that happens. Everyone has done it at some point.

In Primavera P6 EPPM, some of the most common cases of accidental data deletion are:

  • Deletion of the wrong resource
  • Deletion of the wrong project
  • Deletion of the wrong WBS node or nodes

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.

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

The P6-Auditor is Like a Flight Data Recorder for Primavera P6

What the P6-Auditor and a Flight "Black Box" Have in Common

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I love watching the TV show Mayday – the forensic work that goes into understanding how and why a plane crashes is fascinating to me. Key in any investigation of what went wrong is recovery of the flight data recorder. This “Black Box” records virtually everything that happens in the control system of the aircraft and enables investigators to understand exactly what went wrong.

We implemented our P6-Auditor for one of our clients a couple of years ago, and a few days after go-live, we got a call from the help desk that users across the organization were reporting that all of their activity code assignments for a particular Global Code had disappeared.