The P6 Team Member is designed for individual contributors, or team members, to record their statuses and report their time using timesheets. Team members can also use E-mail Statusing Service and P6 mobile to status their tasks. P6 mobile allows access to P6 Team Member Web functionality. P6 Team Member Web, E-mail Statusing Service and the P6 mobile apps provide quick, convenient, and easy access to assigned tasks using the platform or device that accommodates your line of work.
Your project manager uses P6 to create and update the project schedule and task list. Depending on the project preferences the manager selected when creating the project in P6, the updates you make in the P6 Team Member Web, E-mail Statusing Service or P6 mobile will either apply immediately or require approval before they are applied to the project.
Work assignments in P6 Team Member are based on work distribution filters, or a team member being named as a resource assignment or an activity owner. As a team member, the P6 Team Member interfaces and the P6 mobile apps enable you to:
View only your assigned tasks.
Provide status on your tasks. The project manager customizes the status fields in your view. These fields can include time spent, time left, % complete, remaining duration, start date, and finish date.
Timesheets enable project team members to use the web to communicate timesheets and activity statuses directly to their organization's database, regardless of their location. this ensure that project managers are always working with the most up-to-date project information, making it easier to plan resources or resolve conflicts.
P6 Team Member Web
You can use P6 Team Member Web to:
Modify your view to display your task list by project and by current status, including Active, Due, Overdue, Starred, or Completed. You can refine your task list even further by filtering on the basis of specific parameters, entering a term by which to filter, or providing a sort order for your list.
Mark a task with a star to signify its importance to you. You can view all your starred tasks in one list when you select the Starred task list view in the app menu.
View a list of all your steps for a task. Add, edit, or delete steps to more accurately reflect your work, if you are given the privileges by your project manager. You can enter the % complete to show progress and mark a step as complete when you finish a step.
View the codes and UDFs associated with a task for additional information about the task. Update codes and UDFs if your project manager requires you to update task status using these fields.
View predecessor and successor tasks related to a task and contact resources associated with related tasks.
Communicate with the project manager or other team members through e-mail.
Communicate with the project manager about a task by viewing and posting messages in the Discussion dialog box. All messages are saved with the selected task.
View and edit notebook topics associated with a task to see or provide more information about the task.
View documents associated with a task and contact resources associated with project documents.
Enter up-to-the-minute information about your assignments and to record the time you spent working on each one, by submitting timesheets. Timesheets helps you to focus on the work at hand with a simple cross-project to-do list of your upcoming assignments.
E-mail Statusing Service
You can use E-mail Statusing Service to:
Request a list of your current tasks through e-mail using the e-mail account associated with your P6 user account. You can request a filtered list of tasks by project; time frame; current status, including Active, Due, Overdue, Completed, or Starting; or by all the tasks that you starred.
Reply to the e-mail you receive with your task list, record your progress, and send your updates.
Project managers can use E-mail Statusing Service to:
Send a Welcome e-mail to new E-mail Statusing Service users, which includes the e-mail address to the E-mail Statusing Service, and instructions for requesting a task list and updating the list through e-mail.
Send team members an e-mail request for status updates. Project managers can customize the task list sent to team members using the available filter options. Team members can provide status by replying to the e-mail with their updates.