- In the Ignore Daylight Savings Time field, choose false to recognize daylight savings time or true to ignore it.
Notes: This setting will also impact P6 Team Member. If you notice dates and tasks are off by an hour in your P6 Team Member interfaces, the time difference could be caused by this setting.
- In the Maximum Transactions for Excel Import of Resources field, enter the maximum number of transactions (activities or resources) that can be imported at once from an .xls or .csv file.
The default is 2000.
Enter anything from 100-2000.
- In the Maximum Excel Import File Size field, enter the maximum size (in KB) of the .xls or .csv file uploaded during import.
The default is 1048.
Enter anything from 64-4096.
- In the Allow Auto-Summarize Option field, choose true to allow automatic summarization to be available in Resource Staffing user preferences or false to disable the auto-summarize option.
- In the Database Dropdown Key field, enter the keyword to use for enabling database selection control in the login page. Pass this as a URL parameter db=keyword. See Manage Access to Multiple Database Instances for more information.
Set this to an empty string if you do not want to require the keyword.
You can also use the value you specify as the keyword to bypass the database requirement when logging into the server for P6. For example, https://
serverIP:
listenport/login?db=bypass
- In the Logout URL field, enter a specific URL that appears when the user exits with the Logout/Close icon in the banner of P6. You can use any valid URL.
If you are using WebSSO, Oracle recommends you set the Logout URL to your SSO server's logout page to end the current SSO session.
If you do not specify a URL, P6 directs the user to the launch page of P6.
Note: If you selected the "Don't show this again" option when you used the SSO login screen, that screen will not reappear after you logout then try to log back in. To get it to reappear, you need to clear the cookies for P6.
- In the Filter Portfolio Stale Period field, enter a time period of inactivity that indicates a filtered portfolio should be refreshed when a user views the projects of a filtered portfolio in either a dashboard or portfolio view.
The default is 1d.
Enter anything from 0s-24d20h31m23s647.
- In the Maximum Projects in Portfolio field, enter the maximum number of projects returned when creating a portfolio with a filter.
The default is 1000.
Enter anything from 1-100000.
- In the Maximum Loaded Resource Planning Projects field, enter the maximum number of projects that can open in the Resource Planning spreadsheet.
The default is 100.
Enter anything from 1-1000.
- In the Maximum Portlets per Dashboard field, enter the maximum number of portlets that can display in a dashboard on the Dashboards Home page.
The default is 12.
Enter anything from 1-50.
- In the Maximum Projects per Portfolio View field, enter the maximum number of projects that can display in a portfolio view on the Portfolio Analysis tab and in Portfolio View portlets on dashboards.
The default is 5000.
Enter anything from 1-20000.
- In the Maximum Activities per Activity View field, enter the maximum number of activities that can display in the Activities tab of the Projects section. If greater than 5000, the Maximum memory allocated to Java Applets setting must be 128 or greater (see Configuring Client Properties Settings).
The default is 5000.
Enter anything from 1-100000.
Note: Oracle recommends that the maximum value be set to 5000 (or lower) if users need to display Earned Value or Baseline-related information to avoid database timeouts.
- In the Maximum Assignments per Assignment View field, enter the maximum number of assignments that can appear in an assignment view.
The default is 2000.
Enter anything from 1-15000.
- In the Maximum Projects per EPS View field, enter the maximum number of projects that can appear in an EPS view.
The default is 2000.
Enter anything from 1-100000.
- In the Maximum Resource Chart Grouping Limit field, enter the maximum number of charts that are allowed while grouping the project in Resource Analysis views.
- In the Maximum Users for shared view and filter field, enter the maximum number of users that can be added to a shared view or filter, for example in the EPS, Activities, and Assignments views and EPS, Activities, Assignments, and User Interface View filters.
The default is 100.
Enter anything from 1 to 150
- In the Maximum MRU List Items field, enter the maximum number of items that can display in a Most Recently Used (MRU) list.
The default is 5.
Enter anything from 1-10.
- In the Custom Portlet URL Encryption Key field, enter Encryption key for custom portlet user password.
In the Dashboards and Project Workspace page of P6, users can create custom portlets. Depending on the target, P6 can pass the password of the currently logged on user to the target application. By default, the password is not encrypted.
Use this setting to encrypt the password.
Notes:
- Assigning a key encrypts the password that is part of the URL for a custom portlet.
- The value can be any alphanumeric character or string of characters.
- This encryption uses the Sun/Blowfish algorithm.
- See the P6 Help for more information on custom portlets.
- In the Use HTTP POST for Custom Portlets field, choose true to use HTTP POST requests instead of GET requests when loading custom portlets. Choose false to continue using GET requests.
- In the Transaction Monitor Execution Interval field, enter how often the transaction monitor job will run. This will ensure there are no orphan transactions.
The default is 10m.
Enter anything from 1s-24d20h31m23s647.
- In the Enable Cross Site Scripting Filter field, choose true to allow P6 EPPM to check for unsafe http requests from the browser and unsafe responses from P6, including requested documents. P6 EPPM considers requests and responses that contain JavaScript that P6 did not generate unsafe.
The browser will display an error message for all unsafe page requests. Internet Explorer 7 will show an error message if users attempt to download an unsafe document. Internet Explorer 8 and Firefox will prompt users to download the document file instead of viewing the document directly in the P6 browser.
You do not need to restart the server after changing the value of this setting.
- In the Enable Cross Site Request Forgery Checking (CSRF) field, choose true to allow CSRF for your environment. Choose false if you do not want to use CSRF.
- In the Enable Session Hijack Checking field, choose true to allow hijack checking. Choose false if you don't want to use hijack checking.
- In the Contract Management Encryption Key field, enter the Encryption key for communication between P6 EPPM and Contract Management version 13. The default key is based on the string, "Oracle Primavera." Enter a string and it will convert to a Universally Unique IDentifier (UUID). The UUID will encrypt the password needed to connect to Contract Management. This encryption uses the Sun/Blowfish algorithm.
Note: If you change the encryption key value, you must also specify the same value in the Contract Management Administration Application.
- In the P6 Help Server URL field, enter the URL used to launch P6 Help.
The default URL points to the Oracle Technology Network (OTN). OTN houses Oracle's most up-to-date documentation. If documentation needs to change to match P6 functionality, those changes will appear in the help documentation on OTN.
Note: If you chose to install
If you prefer to use the local version of the P6 Help, you can use the local host URL. You can use the local help only if you installed and deployed the p6help.war file in WebLogic or WebSphere.
Example format:
http://
<server_name>:
<listen_port>/
<context_root>
Note: The URL might be case-sensitive, depending on your application server configuration.
- In the TM Help Server URL field, enter the URL used to launch P6 Team Member Help.
The default URL points to the Oracle Technology Network (OTN). OTN houses Oracle's most up-to-date documentation. If documentation needs to change to match P6 functionality, those changes will appear in the help documentation on OTN.
If you prefer to use the local version of the P6 Team Member Help, you can use the local host URL. You can use the local help only if you installed and deployed the p6tmhelp.war file in WebLogic or WebSphere
Note: The URL might be case-sensitive, depending on your application server configuration.