A key benefit of tools like Primavera P6 is auto-scheduling, where activity dates move automatically as your project plan changes. This article will show how to enable auto-scheduling in Primavera P6, and demonstrate the feature in a simple example. A key differentiator between Microsoft Excel and a project and portfolio management (PPM) tool is the ability to auto-schedule. In Excel, your activities are all independent of one another, so the dates of one activity do not affect another. But in a PPM tool, your activities can be interdependent, so that a schedule slippage in one activity correctly delays the entire project. Primavera P6 has an auto-scheduling feature, although for project managers more familiar with Microsoft Project, it may feel hidden away. This article will show you how to turn this feature on and use it. 1. Let’s start with a simple project plan that is not auto-scheduled: You will notice that the second activity, Define resource list from kickoff meeting ...

You may surprise, Primavera P6 does not support exporting Template into an XML file. We can achieve this by creating a project from Template and exporting the project into an XML file. On the other side, we can import the XML file and create a template from the imported project. I explained the same in this section. Assume I have a Template in Primavera P6 as shown below. I want to export this template into an XML file. As I already mentioned P6 does not support it so we are going to create a project from this template. A project will get created from the Template; Now we can export this Project into an XML file ( Click on Action button in EPS tab>> Select Import/ Export >> Click on the Export tab and select the project and Select) That’s it; We can download the Project as an XML file. Assume we imported this XML file in another machine and created a Project. We can create a Template from the imported Project by Right Click on the EPS >> Add Template ...

With Primavera P6 version 18, we can easily install the new version 18 and keep the old version (for example version 16) on the same computer. After download version 18 installation source, click on Setup: We will uncheck the option “Replace existing version”: Click Install as usual: After finish installation, on the Start menu we can see both the new version 18 and the old version 16: The original article appeared on:  https://doduykhuong.com/2018/09/19/how-to-install-2-primavera-p6-versions-on-the-same-computer/

You can easily export projects to locations outside Primavera P6 using the XML file format to share project information between Project Management databases. To export projects using Primavera P6 XML format follow these steps: Click Projects. On the Projects navigation bar, click EPS. On the EPS page, click the Actions menu and select Import/Export,  XML Project Import/Export.... In the XML Project Import/Export dialog box, click the Export tab. On the Export tab: In the Export Type field, select Primavera XML. In the Export Project field, click  Select Project and select a project from the dialog box. Click on Export. The original article appeared here:  https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E17266_01/p6help/help/en/helpmain.htm?toc.htm?7973.htm