Primavera P6 EPPM R8

Submitted by Roger Booth on
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Submitted by svb130360 on Tue, 2011-03-08 10:32
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Could you please provide step by step procedure to install Primavera P6 Release 8.

I could not follow the guideline provided in the Admin Guide. Also, many features like OBS, EPS, WBS Est. Weight etc. were removed from the latest version. How to handle all these features?

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Submitted by Roger Booth on Fri, 2010-12-03 13:34
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Hi David

We got IT people to install v8 as well. It seemed to cause a fair bit of communication between them and Oracle support.

One of the issues that we are checking up on now with Oracle is whether weblogic is compatible with sbs server.

Heres hoping

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Submitted by David Kelly on Fri, 2010-12-03 11:37
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Installation of Weblogic is very IT professional/ DBA friendly.  I would not expect someone who is only excellent at Primavera to undertake this.  I have installed P3e/P4/P5/P6  all by myself for years.  I got my IT staff to install release 8 for me.

Weblogic is availble under an RUL licence from Oracle, which kinda means its free to use IF you only use it for one application.

If you are about to use this release for "Real" work rather than evaluation - you MUST understand the licencing issues here.  I very strongly recomend contactimng your Primavera dealer to through all of it with you.

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Submitted by Roger Booth on Fri, 2010-12-03 11:25
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Thanks Ron and David for your replies

The work round that we are using at the moment is a laptop with v7 standalone on it. Exporting the projects we need to alter on to that. Making the changes on a machine where I have admin preferences and then exporting or reimporting it back onto the server. Round about way but it is working. Looks like we need to add weblogic then doesn't it? I think we should have stuck with v7

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Submitted by David Kelly on Thu, 2010-12-02 17:03
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Roger,

Everything under the old Admin pull down, as well as control of the EPS, OBS, Funding sources, cost accounts and Project codes requires that you install the WEB TOOLS.

While you might get away with Jboss, the documentation only covers using Weblogic.

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Submitted by Ronald Winter on Thu, 2010-12-02 15:29
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Oracle/Primavera P6 Version 8 documentation states: “For P6 R8, all application administration is accessible through the web browser interface.”  They later state that this feature has been removed from the client/server version of the software.  The question now becomes, what type of P6 are you running; web-based or client?  If it is client, then you can stop looking for your Administrative Preferences and go ask someone who is running web-based P6 to change it for you.  (Kind of sucks, doesn’t it?)

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Submitted by Roger Booth on Thu, 2010-12-02 09:45
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Thanks Amit. From the huge response so far I might need to take you up on the help. Downloading the manuals at the moment.

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Submitted by losin_my_religion on Thu, 2010-12-02 04:30
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Hey,

I would have R8 in a couple of days. If you don't get a response till then, i would be gald to help you out.

Thanks & regards

Amit