Have you ever had a critical piece of data deleted in your Primavera P6 database and needed to recover it?
A client of ours had just this sort of scenario.
The user reached out to us in a panic. This user had just been given increased access in P6 and had renamed an existing UDF. He realized it was renamed improperly and instead of changing the name of the UDF, he deleted it. The project level User Defined Field (UDF) had data assigned to many of their projects. They needed to recover it and ensure the values were reinstated on their projects. We were able to recover the data in less than and hour and a half.
Our latest version of P6-Auditor has a new look and feel making auditing definitions easier and faster to build.
May 28, 2023
Our latest version of P6-Auditor has a new look and feel making auditing definitions easier and faster to build.
New Features
New audits - UDF value, project, activity and code assignments
Users can be configured into categories. For example, P6-Internal, Standard, API, or by department, or by whichever criteria is needed. The User Category column is shown in all reports where there is a user column, and it is possible to filter by it.
It is possible to configure UDFs and code changes to be reported with the corresponding project, activity or resource record
Added the ability to easily limit the range of events retrieved from the server - for example, for the past 5 minutes, 15 minutes, etc.
UI changes - the reports are now all shown on the left side of the auditor web application and are grouped by type/subject leaving more space for the reports on the right side of the page
The EPS auditing now includes changes made to all records in the PROJWBS table, and it includes a column that shows the type of object that was changed
Added the ability to freeze columns. You can freeze 1 to 5 columns and those will always be visible when scrolling.
Enhancements
All reports now run faster, and event reports run much faster than before
Filters have been improved - when possible, multiple options are shown for the user to select from
Reworked the OData implementation on the server, allowing much better control over the columns shown in the client, as well as other improvements
Layouts now work properly with audit reports
Column order that makes sense across all event reports
Profile improvement - the teams of a profile are shown in the profile list and a button that lets you save a profile directly is visible when a profile has changes
In P6 we sometimes discover that an EPS node has gone missing and need to find out what has happened to it. P6-Auditor is a fast and easy way to find out what happened. P6-Auditor reads the data in the P6 audit tables in a spreadsheet format that you can sort and filter.
In P6 we sometimes discover data anomalies that do not make sense and need to find out what happened. Emerald’s P6-Auditor tool provides an easy and quick way to investigate these anomalies. The P6-Auditor reads the data in the P6 audit tables in a spreadsheet format, making these tables much more legible and searchable.
Let’s take a look at how to go about finding what has happened to an activity code that is no longer in our project that once contained values for the activity code.
What the P6-Auditor and a Flight "Black Box" Have in Common
I love watching the TV show Mayday – the forensic work that goes into understanding how and why a plane crashes is fascinating to me. Key in any investigation of what went wrong is recovery of the flight data recorder. This “Black Box” records virtually everything that happens in the control system of the aircraft and enables investigators to understand exactly what went wrong.
We implemented our P6-Auditor for one of our clients a couple of years ago, and a few days after go-live, we got a call from the help desk that users across the organization were reporting that all of their activity code assignments for a particular Global Code had disappeared.
