Perform the steps below to publish the data from one or more projects to the reporting tables so it is ready for reporting. Any of the projects' baselines which is enabled for publishing will also be published when you perform these steps. P6 will automatically publish project data; however, you may want to publish the data manually in special cases such as when generating an important report at a specific time.
To manually publish P6 project data:
Click Projects.
On the Projects navigation bar, click EPS.
On the EPS page, select one or more projects, or select an EPS node to publish all of its subordinate projects.
On the Actions menu, click Publish Projects.
Tips
In order to manually publish project data from the EPS page, Publication Services must be enabled and configured.
You can publish all open projects by clicking Publish Projects on the Run submenu on the Actions menu of the Activities page. You can also publish projects by selecting one or more projects on the EPS page, and then using the right-click menu.
Projects are not immediately published. Instead, they will be added to the queue of projects being processed for publication the next time the Publish Projects service runs. View settings for the Publish Projects service, including how often the service runs, on the Services page, which is located on the Application Settings pane. Depending on your security privileges, the Application Settings pane may not be accessible. You can check the status of the Publish Projects service after it has been added to the service queue by selecting View Service Status from the Actions menu on the Activities page.
If some of the selected projects are not enabled for publication, only those projects enabled for publication will be submitted to the service queue. If none of the selected projects are enabled for publication, you will not be able to click Publish Projects.
A project will be automatically submitted to the service queue if you change the project baseline, calendar, or data date. Projects are also automatically submitted to the queue if you select or clear the Calculate Activity % Complete from activity steps option, or modify the default price/unit value for assignments without activities from the Set Project Preferences dialog box available from the Actions menu the EPS page.