Oracle Releases P6 EPPM R8.2

NEW FEATURES:

New P6 Team Member Web Application

• This application enables team members to report status quickly and efficiently. Team members are able to view and update all work currently assigned to them, communicate with other team members through e-mail, and view predecessor and successor tasks.P6 Team Member Web is part of the P6 Team Member application suite, which is designed for project team members to status their activities in an easy to use interface that does not require them to learn P6. P6 Team Member Web runs on tablets as well as web browsers.

New E-mail Statusing Service and P6 Team Member for iPhone App Support for Activity Owners

• Team members can now update activities that they are assigned to as activity owner

New P6 Team Member Applications Configuration Options

• Project managers can use the new Team Member Applications page on the Project Preferences dialog box to control which projects have status updates staged for approval, as well as which fields to display to team members when updating their status from the E-mail Statusing Service, P6 Team Member for iPhone app, and P6 Team Member Web.

New P6 Team Member Status Approval Process

• Project managers can use the Review Status Updates dialog box, accessible from the Activities page or the Notifications panel, to view team member status updates before the updates are committed to the schedule.

New Status Update History Detail Window

• The Status Update History detail window displays all status changes made to the activity from P6 Team Member applications; you can also filter by activity, assignments, or steps. Displaying the history makes it easy to see all changes and troubleshoot any schedule problems.

ENHANCEMENTS:

New Exclusive Mode

• You can now open one or more projects exclusively. This enables you to prevent others from updating a project while you run reports, schedule projects, level resources, or take other actions while ensuring the project data does not change.

New Location Data

• New global enterprise data for locations enables you to create a list of locations, including the street address and the longitude and latitude.

Enhanced Microsoft Project Integration

• When importing a Microsoft Project XML file, you can now update an existing project. This enables you to manage projects in Microsoft Project and bring the changes into P6 to ensure the status of the project is reflected accurately in P6. You can control what types of global and project data to overwrite when importing.

Enhanced Scaling Options when Printing

• Three new scaling options are available when printing from the Activities, EPS, and Assignments pages.

Enhanced Event Functionality

• Creating or updating User Defined Field (UDF) values now trigger events. When a change triggers an event, the P6 Event Notification system sends the event message to a user configured message queue. You can use the events in a client application to trigger subsequent actions. You could, for example, launch an external workflow based on the existence of a specific event.

Source: Oracle Primavera, what's new in P6 EPPM Release 8.2, December 2011