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Oracle Primavera Professional R 8.3.x Installation on Windows 7 November 2014 Primavera P6 on Windows 7 www.managementyogi.blogspot.in Satya Narayan Dash

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STEP BY STEP GUIDE

ORACLE PRIMAVERA P6 8.3.x INSTLLATION, SET-UP & CONFIGURATION

(Windows 7, x64 bit OS)

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Table of Contents

1. Downloading Primavera Professional R 8.3.x 2. Installing .NET framework, Java and DHTML 3. Installing Primavera P6 Professional R8.3.x 4. Installing Oracle XE 5. Execution of Database Script for Permission 6. Configuring Primavera P6 Database and its Users 7. Configuring Primavera P6 PMDB Database 8. Launching Primavera P6 9. Setting Up Primavera P6



Step 1: Downloading Primavera Professional R 8.3.x

1. Get the Oracle Primavera Software Location: http://edelivery.oracle.com/

2. Accept the Licensing Agreement and select Continue.

3. Select the Product Pack and your OS and then select Go.

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4. Select the following file, which will be listed when you said Go.

5. When you download the Primavera Application, you will have this file for Version 8.3 V43395-01.zip

6. Copy this file to C: drive and unzip it. A folder P6_R83_Client_Applications will be created

Note: Your file numbering may be different. But go ahead with your number. 7. Select the setup.exe for installation under this folder: C:\

P6_R83_Client_Applications



Step 2: Installing .NET framework, Java and DHTML

Note: If they are already installed in your computer, the below message wont be

popped up.

8. New message will be popped up. Accept it. If you have already installed Microsoft .NET Framework 4 (x86 and x64), then it wont be shown to you.

9. It will ask to a Java Runtime Environment for 7.0 and the package comes bundled

with Java. Accept and install. If you have already version of Java 7 installed, then

it will not be needed.

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10. It will install a DHTML component. Go ahead with the installation.

11. Next it will ask for installation of Java. Go ahead and do it.

Next it will install the .NET framework (if it is not already installed)



Step 3: Installing Primavera P6

12. After the installation of all these 3 (Java, .NET Framework 4 and DHTML), actual Primavera installation will start.

13. Select the standalone component for installation

14. Create a Password and supply it in the below dialog box. Remember this password as this will be used in other places.

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I have taken the password as MyPrimavera543 (REMEMBER THIS ONE or BETTER WRITE IT DOWN). You can give your own password.

15. Include sample data in the below dialog box.

Sample data is helpful. A number of Sample Projects will be available for your use,

which you can reference and use it for your understanding of Primavera P6. Now Click

Next.



16. Select Install.

17. Primavera will start installing now.



Step 4: Installing Oracle XE

18. Now it will install the Oracle database (Oracle XE) in the backend. This comes bundled with package for Primavera.

THIS WILL TAKE A LONG TIME. SO HAVE PATIENCE.

19. After the installation is complete, click on the Finish button.

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20. Restart the system as being asked.

21. After installation, following folders will be available in the C: drive.

22. After installation, few software would have been installed along with Oracle Primavera Professional R8.3.x. These can be checked from Control Panel Programs Programs and Features.

23. Along with it following ones will also be installed: a. Oracle Database 10g Expression Edition b. Oracle Data Provider for .NET help c. Java 7 update d. DHTML Editing Component e. Microsoft .NET framework. It can be seen from the Control Panel as mentioned in Sub-step 22.



Step 5: Execution of Database Script for Permission

24. Select database folder under C:\P6_R83_Client_Applications to C: drive.

25. Select the dbsetup.bat to run. Use the default options in the popped up screen and select Next.

26. Use the password created for Primavera System in Sub-step 14 and provide the database name as XE.

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27. In a default setting of a Windows 7 system, you will get this error.

28. Copy the entire database folder under C:\P6_R83_Client_Applications to C: drive.

a. Provide the needed permission through security to this folder. b. Open the command prompt with administrative privilege. c. User Account Control (UAC) of Windows will ask for permission.

Proceed and use admin privilege.

Now Go to the directory C:\database



29. Set the Oracles SID as XE. Command to be used is set ORACLE_SID=XE

30. Type: C:\oraclexe\app\oracle\product\10.2.0\server\BIN\sqlplus.exe SYS/password@XE as sysdba

Now the SQL> prompt will be shown to you.

If you have sqlplus.exe installed in any other directory, select that one in you path

for the command.

31. Now, we have to execute manual_script_before_install.sql script from the SQL> prompt, execution of which was failing earlier.

@C:\database\scripts\install\PPM_08_03_00\manual_script_before_install.sql

It should say message that grant succeeded as shown below.

Come out of the SQL prompt by pressing Ctrl + C.



Step 6: Configuring Primavera P6 Database and its Users

Go back to C:\database folder and execute dbsetup.bat (which you left out on Sub-step 25)

32. Follow the steps in Step 24 and 25. Now the error coming in Sub-step 27 will not be shown when selected next. This dialog box will be shown. Select Next.

33. Select the default options and select Create for creation of Oracle Tablespaces and click Create.

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34. Now Database Wizard will be shown. Continue selecting Next.

35. Create the various Oracle users with the user names and passwords. A simple tactics can be to give same username and pass. Click Next.



36. In the next screen given admin as password, which is the default one. This is for the Application User. Click on Install.

37. It will create the Oracle users, Grant the needed privileges, Create the needed tables, Load the sample data, Create remaining database objects and Initialize

background jobs:

On completion of all the above activities, click Next.



38. In the upcoming Finish, click on Finish. The needed database configuration for Primavera is now complete!

39. Launch Primavera now from Program Menu:



Step 7: Configuring Primavera P6 PMDB Database

40. After launching perform the configuration of PMDB.

41. Configuration option is available in the drop Database area, highlighted in the

screen in sub-step 40, in red square.

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42. Now give the user name and password both as privuser. This has been already established configuration for PMDB database. You can use other names.

Click Next.



Connection successful message will be displayed. Now select Finish.



Step 8: Launching Primavera P6

43. Launch Primavera giving the user name and password both admin.

44. A message will come as below. Ignore the message.

45. Primavera will be loaded and displayed.

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Step 9: Setting Up Primavera P6

46. Select Admin Admin Preferences and select Industry. Set your industry. It will remove the error message displayed in Sub Step 44.

You can select the Industry you are in, which can be Engineering & Construction

or Government, Aerospace etc.

47. Go to Edit User Preferences and select Applications under it.

Ensure that the checkbox Show the Welcome dialog at startup is selected. When Primavera opens up next, you will have many options to choose from.

48. Set currency From Edit User Preferences, set your currency.

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49. To set the Time Units, use Edit User Preferences Time Units, as shown below.

You can have your default units a day or week or month level. By default, it is for

Days, which is widely used.

50. You can set different formats for Dates, use Edit User Preferences Dates. I prefer the followings which is highlighted in Red.



You may set according your need.

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