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Working with the P6 User Interface

The user interface presents familiar screen elements you manipulate in your web browser. They include all of the following common types of user interface objects and several more special objects not listed:

  • pages
  • tabs
  • dialog boxes
  • detail windows
  • portlets
  • fields
  • lists
  • buttons
  • links
  • tables
  • charts
  • calendars

Refer to the sample images below to orient yourself with the P6 graphical user interface inside your web browser.

P6 User Interface elements

Table of Common User Interface Elements

Item

Description

item one

P6 navigation bar: This bar is always visible and shows buttons representing your access to dashboards and any of the main modules of the application. Use it to navigate to the pages and menus in the dashboards, portfolios, projects, resources, or reports sections of the application.

item  two

Administer menu: This menu offers access to My Preferences for all users and can include access to My Calendar for users with an associated resource. Application administrators will also have access to one or more of the following menu items: application settings, enterprise data, user access, or user interface views.

item  three

Personal Workspace dashboard: This default dashboard displays the portlets you have selected that are important to your work goals. In this example, notice the familiar hyperlinks including Customize which you can click to configure the dashboard for use by you or multiple users. Notice too that Personal Workspace is also the name for the tab you would click to open this dashboard if more than one dashboard appeared on this page.

item  four

Toolbars: From top to bottom, the Private Documents toolbar, the Activities toolbar, and the Issues toolbar. There are hundreds of toolbars throughout the application made up of over 400 icons. The Activities, EPS, and Resource Assignments toolbars in the application also feature their own Actions, Edit, and View menus.

item five

Scorecard portfolio view portlet: In this example, the user has customized this dashboard by adding a portfolio view of type scorecard within its own portlet. The portlet also shows color-coded indicators in the Strategic Alignment column of the scorecard and can be further customized to suit work goals. The colors of a bar chart or histogram are also visible in the Original Budget portfolio view portlet.

item six

Projects navigation bar: This bar shows buttons representing pages determined by your assigned user interface view and any custom preferences you made. Similar bars can be found under the Portfolios, Projects, and Resources sections.

item seven

Activity Table: One of the central work areas of the entire application, this table allows you to customize its columns (fields), color-coded grouping bands, and sort options, and of course apply filters.

item eight

Activity Gantt chart: Shown adjacent to the Activity Table, the Activity Gantt chart represents your schedule and offers robust customizable project management features including drag and drop editing, timescale, progress lines, relationship lines, spotlights, bar necking, and helpful mouseover tips.

item nine

Issues detail window: To gather the related details associated with a particular item in certain tables, the application often provides one or more detail windows in a series along the bottom. On pages supporting applied views, you can determine which detail windows are shown or hidden with your view.

Related Topics

About Screen Controls

Working with the Main Menus

Working with Tables

Working with Toolbars

Working with "Select a Value" Dialog Boxes

Working with Data in P6

Working with Detail Windows

About Portlets

About Data Entry Controls


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