Claim Digger Baseline V.S Revised Schedule Comparison-2019 update

If you use Oracle Primavera 20.1 and later, Claim Digger, see the bottom of this Schedule Comparison article.

(Schedule Comparison) Claim Digger is one of Primavera’s tools:

P6 Schedule Comparison (Claim Digger) is a very useful tool to find the difference between two versions of schedule or Baseline Schedules V.S Revised Schedules using Primavera P6 without any additional software required.

First, let me explain what is the benefit of using the Primavera P6 Built-in tool Claim Digger (now known as Schedule Comparison in the new Primavera P6 versions). Mainly The Claim Digger compares two schedules and finds out what is the difference between the two of them,

Differences are identified as per the following terms:

1- Total Float

2- Calendar Name

3- Free Float

4- Critical Activities

5- Activity Name

6- WBS Name

7- WBS Code

8- Primary Constraint Type

9- Primary Constraint Date

10- Actual Expense Cost

11- Remaining Expense Cost

12- At Completion Expense Cost

13- Budgeted Expense Cost

14- Planned Finish Date

15- Early Finish Date

16- Early Start Date

17- Actual Start Date

18- Late Finish Date

19- Late Start Date

20- Planned Start Date

21- Actual Finish Date

22- Original Duration

23- Actual Duration

24- Remaining Duration

25- At Completion Duration

26- Actual Cost

27- At Completion Cost

28- Expense Percent Complete

29- Price Per Unit

30- Budgeted Cost

31- Remaining Cost

32- Activity Percent Complete

33- Duration Percent Complete

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34- Physical Percent Complete

35- Units Percent Complete

36- Actual Labor Units

37- Budgeted Labor Units

38- At Completion of Labor Units

39- Remaining Labor Units

40- Activities Added/Deleted

40.1- The following Activities have been added to the project

40.2- The following activities have been deleted from the project

41- Activity Code Assignments Added/Deleted

42- Relationship Differences (Predecessor / Successor Relationships added or deleted)

43- At Completion Units

44- Budgeted Units

45- Remaining Units

46- Remaining Units Per Time

47- Actual Units

48- Budgeted Duration

49- Remaining Duration

50- Resource Assignments Added/Deleted

51- Activity Steps

It will spot any variance between the two versions in the schedule.

When you should use Claim Digger, Applications of using This tool:

1- When you receive a new version of the schedule from the contractor, then you should use Claim Digger to check what has been changed on the schedule.

2- When you Receive an update of the schedule, you should check that nothing has changed from the baseline original duration, relationships, and constraints.

3- Before submitting your schedule to the client after a new revision or update, just run a fast check to ensure nothing goes wrong.

How to work with Step by Step:

1- open the Schedule Comparison from the Primavera p6 tools menu as per the following photo:

Once you click on Schedule Comparison from tools, it will open the Visualizer.

This is the Window that will show up, now you need to put a name for the Comparison and Click on Options to go to the next step.

 Now you should choose from the first window the Revised Schedule or the updated one with some differences from the baseline.

Once you click on Add you will see both of the Projects below and will shift you to General.

In General, Choose the report format (HTML or CSV)

HTML Report, Compare two projects’ schedules HTML Report

Then it will be shifted to Advanced

In Advanced, it will make you choose the Point of Comparison

It is divided into two sections.

1.      Project Information

2.      Activity Information

The information here is about everything in the Activity.

Like if your consultant asked you to modify the Relations of some activities and their duration then you will choose the point of Comparison

Here we want to see if there are any deleted or new Activities and we need to check if there are any changes in Durations, Dates, Relations, and if any relation is added or deleted.

 This is the type of HTML Type of Reports

You will see the changes in the Revised Schedule than the Baseline Schedule

This will be the Last format of the HTML File

Oracle mentioned the following cause of this action:

P6 was installed with the packaged SQLite database. In this Standalone configuration (P6 versions 8.4 to 15.2) using SQLite as the database, this is the expected behavior concerning Claim Digger. Claim Digger is not available in this database option.

P6 Professional Standalone (r8.4-15.2) using an SQLite database supports all of the Project Management functions of P6 Professional except for the following:
– Update Baseline
– Claim Digger (Schedule compare)
– Job Services – Jobs cannot be scheduled. However, the user can use the Windows scheduler to invoke the command line interface to import, export, and run batch reports.
– Risk Analysis
– Any existing Java-based integration components developed by the customer using the P6 Remote Integration API (RMI) are not supported with an SQLite database.

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