Project Partners Blog Author:
Sachin Gupta | Oracle Primavera Solution Architect – Application Integration Specialist
Activity Excel Utility Using P6 EPPM Web Services
P6 EPPM Web Services is a great way of integrating external systems with P6 EPPM application. Activity excel utility allows reading and writing data to Oracle Primavera P6 EPPM using P6 EPPM Web Services.
Activity excel utility allow user to:
- Maintain activity details
- Maintain activity relationship
- Assign global and project activity code to activity
- Assign resource or role to activity
- Maintain activity steps
- Maintain activity UDF
- Maintain resource assignment UDF
- Maintain activity step UDF
Update Project List – download list of projects from the connected P6 EPPM application
Read All Data – allows downloading all activity data at the click of button
Clear All Data – removes data from all worksheets
Read – Read or download data from P6 EPPM using Web Services
Modify – Create, Update or Delete the data for the corresponding business object
Screenshots of some of the worksheet are shown here for reference
Activity Details allows creating new activity and maintaining existing activity data. CRUD flag is used to identify the operation to be performed
“C” – Create, “U” – Update, “D” – Delete, “R” – Read.
Activity data is downloaded with CRUD flag as “R”
Activity attributes like Duration Type, % Complete Type, etc. use same set of values as in the application.
Activity Relationship can be created and updated within excel utility. Relationship Type has a predefined set of values as used in application – Task Dependent, Resource Dependent, Level of Effort, Start Milestone, Finish Milestone, WBS Summary.
Activity Code Assignment allow user to assign activity code to activities. Both global and project specific activity codes can be assigned to activities.
Resource Assignment allow user to assign resource/role to activities. This can be used to maintain resource assignment for activities of the project.
User interface for all other worksheets are similar to the one shown above.
Download evaluation copy here.
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