Been using Primavera P3 for most of my career, and have been using P6 steadily for about 2 years now. I'm currently using release 8.2, soon to upgrade to V. 8.3. Anyway, I just figured I'd provide a list of my little gripes and issues with the software (when comparing to P3) and see if anyone agrees and/or has any fixes or recommendations. Well, here goes:
- Cannot drag individual tasks up or down into new sections. (have to cut and paste)
- Sizing of "pop-up" windows never is retained. The Group and Sort field is always "squished" and has to be expanded.
- No "reorganize now" or "refilter now" buttons.
- When veiwing actvity descriptions on a printout, they will go off the page, rather than switching to the other side of the activity bar.
- No "unlink activities" button.
- Custom Colors not saved in pallete
- Cannot split screen horizontally
- In page setup titleblock - cannot adjust line spacing in Text field.
- Fractional start/finish times is really frustrating. Should be able to overide having to work in hours.
- No "copy picture" option which would allow to pasting fragnets directlty into email or Word file.
- Dont have the ability to show a log or notebook entry on the actual print layout.
Thats about it for now. I know these are all basically minor in nature, but these little annoyances add up. Maybe there are ways of doing some of the above items that I dont know about. But these seem like easy fixes and hopefully, many of them will be addressed in the future versions.
Looking forward to comments!
Hi Brian
Simple answer - switch to proper software such as Asta Powerproject or Spider.
Asta software is interchangeable into and out of P6.
For any planning work I operate in Asta and switch to P6 if that is what the client wants.
Best regards
Mike Testro