Updating the schedule

Choose from a couple of ways of updating your schedule. You can update activity progress manually, or you can have P6 Professional automatically calculate progress according to the project plan.

• If your project is progressing exactly as planned, or if you only need to estimate progress, simply specify the data date or "as-of" date and allow the module to automatically update activities that should have progressed, calculate the remaining durations of activities that have started, and set the remaining durations of activities that have completed to zero.
• If your project is not progressing as plannedmany activities are starting out-of-sequence, activities are taking more or less time to complete than originally planned, actual resource use is exceeding planned useupdate activities and resources individually. This will help you forecast the effects of unforeseen circumstances, so that you can take appropriate corrective action.
• When connected to a P6 EPPM database: To collect progress data using P6 Progress Reporter, someone in your organization, typically the Oracle administrator, must use P6 to create timesheets, specify the timesheet approval rules and permissions to be used, and set up the necessary resource/user accounts and related privileges. Then, project team members can use P6 Progress Reporter to record progress on their assignments and submit the timesheets for review and approval. Progress from approved timesheets is used to update the project when actuals are applied.
• Most projects contain some activities that progress as planned and some which do not. In this case, combine the two updating methods. Calculate your project as if it is progressing exactly as planned, then individually update those activities and resources that have deviated from the plan.

Once you update a project, choose File, Commit Changes, to save your changes and update the database immediately. Closing also automatically commits data changes.