Primavera P6 R8.3.iso

Oracle releases Primavera P6 Release 8.3.



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Primavera P6 R8.3 update is now available for download on Oracle’s e-delivery website. This release includes updates for both the Primavera P6 Professional client and the Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management (EPPM) Web client.

In our Future Plans for Primavera P6 EPPM article posted in August last year, we outlined what one might expect to see in the R8.3 release. And it appears that most of this has become a reality according to the ‘What’s new’ documentation available with these releases and some of our preliminary first hand examinations of the new tools. We’ve taken a few screen shots for you and have listed the major enhancements.
Primavera P6 Professional R8.3

Starting with Primavera P6 Professional, very little about the client has changed from a visual perspective; always a good thing for existing users. What has been introduced is a new tool called the Primavera P6 Professional Visualizer: an attractive interface tool that brings together the original TimeScale Logic Diagram (TSLD) functions and a basic Gantt chart viewing tool. The Visualizer is an additional desktop application that can be launched from the P6 Professional Tools menu or from your Windows Start menu. Because it connects to the database directly you don’t have to have P6 Professional running to use it.

Adoption and Usability Enhancements

Setting a Default Start Page
Renaming Columns
Viewing the hierarchy for activity, project and resource codes
Sorting on Multiple Columns
New relationships detail window on activities page
CMSI connector for Content Repository
Document support in Progress Reporter
Improved printing from the EPS and Activities pages
Additional baseline fields
Selecting multiple items in Assign dialog boxes
Find and Replace option
Copy activity options
Discussion feature
Improved filtering
Workflow enhancements
Progress reporter support for user productivity kit
Enabling team members to update activity codes and UDFs

Administration Improvements

Copying User-related Views for New Users
Job Completion Notification
API and Web Services Enhancements
Improved Selection for Job Services
Bounce E-mail Address
Module Access Changes
Project Name instead of DB ID in Content Repositories
Password Security
Online Help for P6 Professional Settings
Project ID as Filter options for Creating Portfolios

Let’s look closer at just a few examples of these new enhancements starting with the Start Page option. This allows you to specify what page is seen when the user first logs in to Primavera P6 EPPM. The setting is made in the User Interface View page. You can also select which tab is displayed at startup and the Page to open within that tab by moving the desired Page to the top of the list.

Team Member Application

The Team Member enhancements are listed as follows in the What’s New document:
Discussion Feature
Team Member Work Distribution Filter
Adding or Deleting Activity Steps
Enhanced Filtering of Tasks
Updating User-Defined Fields and Activity Codes
Viewing Notebook Topics
Viewing Documents
Cannot Status Dates in the Future
Primary Resource Support on Milestones
Star Filtering Option in E-Mail
Sending a Welcome E-mail to Team Members
Requesting Updates via E-mail Statusing Service
E-Mail View for Progress Reporter Timesheet Users
P6 Status Update Approval Impact

For non-scheduler types, the Team Member application is certainly becoming a very capable tool and has enjoyed the benefits of many of the enhancements that appear in its bigger sibling applications; the Discussion feature to name just one.