Exploring Oracle Primavera P6 Professional 18, 3rd Edition

Prof. Sham Tickoo

• Publisher: CADCIM Technologies
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN: 9781640570504
• eBook ISBN: 9781640570504
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Project Management in Engineering
• Index: Technology & Engineering

Exploring Oracle Primavera P6 Professional 18 textbook explains the concepts and principles of project management through practical examples, tutorials, and exercises. This enables the users to harness the power of managing projects with Oracle Primavera P6 for their specific use. In this textbook, the author emphasizes on planning, managing and controlling the projects, assigning resources and roles to a project, and producing schedule and resources reports and graphics. This textbook is specially meant for professionals and students in engineering, project management and allied fields in the building industry. Some of the Salient Features of this textbook are as follows:

• Detailed explanation of Oracle Primavera concepts.
• Real-world projects given as tutorials.
• Tips and Notes throughout the textbook.
• 264 pages of illustrated text.
• Self-Evaluation Tests, Review Questions, and Exercises at the end of the chapters.

Free Teaching and Learning Resources:
CADCIM Technologies provides the following free teaching and learning resources with this textbook:

• Technical support by contacting [email protected]
• All data files used in tutorials, exercises (For Faculty only), and illustrations
• Customizable PowerPoint Presentations of all chapter (For Faculty only)
• Instructor Guide with solution to all review questions and exercises (For Faculty only)
• Additional learning resources at https://pmpxperts.blogspot.in/and youtube.com/cadcimtech

Brief Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Getting Started with Primavera P6 Professional 18
Chapter 2: Creating Projects
Chapter 3: Defining Calendars and Work Breakdown Structure
Chapter 4: Working with Activities and Establishing Relationships
Chapter 5: Defining Resources and Roles
Chapter 6: Risks and Issues, and Setting Baselines
Chapter 7: Project Expenses and Tracking Progress of Project
Chapter 8: Printing Layouts and Reports
Index

About the Authors:

CADCIM Technologies, Prof. Sham Tickoo of Purdue University Northwest, and the team of dedicated contributing authors at CADCIM Technologies are committed to bring you the best textbooks, eBooks, and free teaching and learning resources on Computer-Aided Design and Manufacturing (CAD/CAM), Computer Programming and Applications, GIS, Civil, Animation and Visual Effects, and related technologies. We strive to be the first and the best. That is our promise and our goal.
Our team of authors consists of highly qualified and experienced animation and visual effects artists who have a strong academic and industrial background. They understand the needs of the students, the faculty, and the challenges the students face when they start working in the industry.

Chapter 8

Printing Layouts and Reports

After completing this chapter, you will be able to:

• Understand reports

• Understand type of reports

• Understand the printing concept

INTRODUCTION

In the previous chapter, you learned to set layout for the Activities and Projects windows and also to update the project status according to the progress of the project. You also learned about tracking of projects by creating and maintaining baselines.

In this chapter, you will learn to print layouts and reports for the distribution of project data. This chapter focuses on page settings (such as margins, page orientation, header, and footer settings, and so on), preview layout, and printing. Moreover, you will learn to open standard reports, create new reports, and modify existing reports.

Reports

Reporting is the process of monitoring a project. It helps in communicating the project progress with the team members and the executive management. Generating reports is a useful way for keeping track of important information.

Reports help business managers to take better decisions. It can be presented in two forms: tabular and graphical. The report types will be explained later in this chapter. Firstly, you will learn to create and modify reports and report groups.

Creating Reports

You can create and modify reports in Report Wizard. To open Report Wizard, choose the Reports button from the Directory bar; the Reports window will be displayed. In this window, you can create a report by using the Add button from the Command bar. When you choose this button, Report Wizard with the Create or Modify Report page will be displayed, as shown in Figure 8-1.

In this page, the New Report radio button is selected by default which allows you to create a new report. Now, choose the Next button; the Select Subject Area page wi...

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