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You can also click on Tools | Visualize inside P6 Professional, and it will run the
software.
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The Primavera P6 Visualizer should connect to your server, and this needs
authentication. When you run it from inside the P6 Professional, the same username
and password that youve entered when you were opening P6 Professional will be
sent to P6 Visualizer, and you wont need to enter it again; the main window of the
software will be opened instantly.
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If you run it from outside the P6 Professional though, a dialog box will appear, asking
you for your username and password.
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The main window will be available after you log in with your username and password.
That is the same username and password you use in P6 Professional.
The same privileges, user preferences, and admin preferences that are assigned to
your account, will govern your P6 Visualizer, the same as P6 Professional.
Gantt option will create a normal Gantt view of our project. TSLD stands for
Timescaled Logic Diagram, and its a similar diagram, that doesnt show the left-side
table of activities (called Grid in P6 Visualizer), and its capable of showing sequential
activities in a single row. You, as a planner, are probable not to like TSLDs so much,
but many managers prefer this kind of presentation.
By choosing either of the two options, the similar dialog box shown in the figure
bellow will be opened.
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Its time to choose the project(s). The list on the left side of the dialog box shows the
projects in their hierarchy, EPS. Open the EPS and find the project(s) you want to
visualize, and then click on the left-to-right arrow to add it to the list on the right side.
You can choose one or more projects. However, theres only one visualized
presentation open in any given time, and if you want to open another project or
another set of projects, you should close the previous one.
When were done choosing the project(s), we can click on the Next button. This will
open the next step of the wizard, as is shown in the following figure.
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There are lots of settings involved in any visualization; all settings are stored in a
layout, and all layouts are saved in the P6 database. There are three kinds of layouts:
Global: available to all users
Project: only available to this specific project
User: only available to the current user
And of course, you need respective privileges to create non user layouts.
There are two previously created layouts in our sample, both of which are of User
type; thats why it shows User (2 items) in the previous figure.
Were going to enter a name for the layout (test in our sample), and select Create
New option, to create a new layout with default settings. We can click on Draw button,
and the visualization will be available.
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This is a TSLD of a sample project. The next figure shows the same project in
Primavera P6 Professional.
As you can see, some activities are shown in the same row.
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There are lots of formatting options available (that will be stored in the layout). E.g. we
can change the formatting of bars.
Lets increase the height of the bar of the critical activities, to create a more common
view. To do so, we can click on Options, and choose Bars & Labels tab in the options
window.
The list on the left side of the window shows all the bar types. When we click on
Critical Remaining Work, the options for this bar type will be available on the right side
of the window, and a preview will be shown in the middle.
Lets scroll down the window and find Height option. This has a value of 5 at present.
Other bars have a value of 15, and were going to enter the same value for this
particular bar, followed by clicking on Draw & Save. The next figure shows the result.
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This setting is saved in our layout, which was named test. We can use this layout in
future, and the same settings will be applied.
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We can enter the name and choose the category. The category actually determines
the availability of the layout to other projects and other users; the three options of
Global, Project, and User, which were explained in the beginning of this article.
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layout each time. However, you can still edit and save the layouts when you use the
folder sign to open the project with an existing layout.
When we click on the icon, a dialog box appears, asks for project(s) to be opened, asks
for the layout, and creates the output.
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Theres a sub-tab inside Timescale tab, called Primary, which shows settings used to
display the main timescale. Now we can click on the plus sign next to Primary tab, to
create our first zoom area.
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We can set the period in General section, and its different scale in the lower section.
Our main timescale is based on years/months in this sample, so were going to choose
months/days for this zoom area. Well choose another color for the heading of the
timescale, to make the difference more visible and outstanding.
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Just be careful with this zoom option; it can easily lead to misunderstandings if the
zoom area is not visually differentiated from the normal timescale. A good use of
vertical lines, as in the previous figure, is probably the best solution.
Other tabs in Options window provide you with settings for:
Bar types, including labels
Lines used to show relationships, connections, data date, and activity groups
Group and sort
Filter
Page setup (of course you can print layouts or make PDFs from them)
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<action>
<reportType>TSLDReport</reportType>
<reportCategory>Global</repostCategory>
<reportName>test</reportName>
<projects>
<projectId>sample1</projectId>
<projectId>sample2</projectId>
</projects>
<outputType>ToPrinter</outputType>
<outputName>p1200</outputName>
</action>
Be careful with tag names; they are all case-sensitive.
This ActionScript opens two projects, named sample1 and sample2, with a global
layout named test, and sends the output to an imaginary printer named p1200. When
you run the batch file for this ActionScript, P6 Visualizer will run in the background,
and your printer starts printing the output.
These are the ActionScript tags, and their explanations:
reportType: it determines the type of report; TSLDReport for TSLD and
GanttReport for Gantt charts.
reportCategory: you should enter the category of the layout youve planned to
use here; values are Global, Project, and User.
reportName: and this is the name of the layout.
projectId: you can enter as many projects as you wish, each inside a projectId
tag. Enter the ID of the project here.
outputType: there are two options available; ToPrinter, which sends the output
to a printer installed in your computer (including virtual PDF printers), and ToXPS,
to create an image file of type XPS.
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outputName: you should specify the name of the printer, or path and filename
for the XPS output in this tag.
If youre not comfortable with batch files and XMLs, just ask your IT department to do
it for you. They dont need to know how P6 works; the short explanation in this part of
the article is enough for them.
Summary
Primavera P6 Visualizer, the new stand-alone software from Oracle Primavera P6
collection, is a useful tool for two purposes:
Being an easy way of viewing and exploring schedules for non-planners
Being a new way of presenting and printing schedules, when youre going to
hand them in to managers
You can set up your desired layouts, make them global, and use them in as many
computers as you wish. These computers only need a connection to your Primavera
P6 database, and a working Primavera P6 Visualizer; theres even no need to install
Primavera P6 Professional. Primavera P6 Visualizer provides users with a simple, readonly presentation of the schedules, and theres nothing they can mess up.
Finally, you can automate the reporting process by using Windows Task Scheduler, a
batch file, and an ActionScript.
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Comments
Ehsan Pazoki says
May 2, 2013 at 2:11 am
Very well
Thanks
Reply
Arlan says
July 24, 2013 at 3:45 am
Excellen and I will download later, Primavera P6 Prof. Thanks for your great
information.
I am reading your articles in Planner Tuts, inluding the Book rule of Scheduling .
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Alexander says
November 15, 2013 at 2:52 am
IMHO: Visualizer is unuseful for project scheduler and for customers. Just bright
charts. It doesnt help me to create simple report with data
grouping/sorting/filtering.
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NicholoAntonio says
January 23, 2014 at 12:47 am
Just What We Needed.
Hi Nader,
Would like for your help on how I can save this as a PDF file.
Ive done both the batch file and ActionScript using notepad. However I dont know
whether it is generating a pdf file. It doesnt even ask for a file name for the PDF file.
Hope you can help me.
Regards,
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Paul says
July 2, 2014 at 5:30 am
I tried to open Visualizer after logged into P6.. And it is asking for username &
password.. After entering the log in id and password i cannot log in.. the window
remains same with log in arrow in red orange colour..
Could you please suggest how to fix it
Reply
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