Primavera Reflection

 Today we are going to talk about one of Primavera P6 feature, which will help you as a planning or scheduler it is “Reflection”.

Reflection is a unique tool that you can use instead of copy a project and check different scenarios over it with different changes or scenarios.

To easy understand the reflection tool, you can check the following picture.

 

Reflections offer a much broader range of capabilities than those envisaged by its, Using Reflections for what-if analysis. Briefly, a Reflection allows you to save a linked copy of a project, update it and then merge those changes back into the original project. But that’s not all you can do with it.

Simply it is a copy of your project with a link to the project source , also you can merge all the changes or update you have done in the reflection project to your source project an show all the changes within your reflection and committee our ignore these changes.

Steps to create reflection and merge changes:

Step 1 : Right click over the project and select “Create reflection”

Step 2 : If your project has assigned baseline , he asked to add or not “Click Ok”.

Step 3 : You can check the reflection , source project column before make changes and merge them

Step 4 : Make changes or update on the reflection

Step 5 : Merge the changes to the source project  ” right click over reflection and click merge changes”

 

 

You a can watch a tutorial video for Primavera P6 Reflection

And more than 50 Primavera Tips and Tricks at our website with the following Link

http://www.planningengineer.net/product/oracle-primavera-top-50-tips-and-tricks-50-downloadable-videos/

 

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