Other examples include Project Layouts or Activity Codes. Project Calendars can’t be shared or used on other projects. A Calendar in P6 can be created either as a Global Calendar (shareable on other projects) or a Project Calendar, which then becomes embedded inside the project you use it on. Some of the data objects in the list above can also be created as a “Project” object. Let’s look at Calendars again. It’s import to understand Primavera P6’s innate data linking concept because it comes into play in a major way when you export and import projects through.
So it would have to be flexible enough to be configurable for each department’s needs. The goal was to design a system that could be used by an organization’s many departments.
#PRIMAVERA P6 VS MS PROJECT SOFTWARE#
Primavera P6, both the Professional version and EPPM, have a more complex data structure that enables them to be in the realm of Enterprise software tools. If Primavera P6 was truly a standalone tool, you’d find it to resemble a tool like Microsoft Project, where you deal with files only and projects don’t share data between them. Even though many of us use Primavera P6 as a standalone tool, shunning all of the enterprise bells and whistles, at it’s core is a database initially designed for the enterprise’s needs. It’s important to remember that Primavera P6 was initially designed as an Enterprise project management system. But it’s also good knowledge to have for any user of Primavera P6 Professional or EPPM. It will help you to make sure your Primavera P6 project data is making it to it’s destination when you send a file. If you’ve ever sent or received a Primavera P6. You can, but you can also get into trouble once you start moving data around, especially back and forth between databases. It’s a bit too much for some, and why should you even care? You seem to be able to use Primavera P6 just fine without any knowledge of Global or Project Data. I’ve always had difficulty explaining the concept of global and project data to new users of Primavera P6 in my training courses.