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P6 menu items popup delay

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Bill Hawthorne
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Hi,

I am operating in the following corporate environment:

P6 Professional v20.12; Citrix hosted; SQL database; don't know database size but projects add up to 4.5 million activities.

The issue I have is that when I select certain menu items in the Activities window (typically Group and Sort, Columns, Bars) there is a delay of about 7 seconds before the popup box appears.

In other windows (Projects, WBS, Resource Assignments) it operates normally.

Oracle's Knowledge Base does not seem to have any information on the issue.

Has anyone else experienced this?

Is it an Oracle issue, a Citrix issue, or a database issue?

Any help would be appreciated. It drives me crazy.

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Zoltan Palffy
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questions and suggestions

Questions

1. Did this just start to happen ?

2. Have you recently upgraded your database or operating system or has there been changes on the citrix ?

3. Does this only happen when one specific project is open ?

4. Have you recently deleted a lot of projects or activities 

5. Has the database been configured to run backround jobs ?

Suggestions

1. Try the same thing opening a different project (too large a project) 

2. Try a different layout (sometimes layouts get corrupt)

3. Test the speed to and from the cirtix

4. Have the DBA run this script to let backround jobs run this will clean up old deleted information

exec initialize_background_procs; 

exec system_monitor; 

exec data_monitor; 

 

5. Have the DBA run this to gather statistics and make the database run fatser

Go to start

All programs

Select Microsoft SQL Server 2005

Then Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio

Server name is the name of your computer\PRIMAVERA

Authentication is SQL Server Authentication

Login: sa

Password is: Prima123Vera

Select Connect

On the left expand the databases and select pmdb$primavera or whatever your datbase is

Uptop select New Query

on the right type this

update statistics project with fullscan ,all
update statistics task with fullscan, all

Then right click execute

Then type

exec sp_updatestats

Then right click execute

6. Delete and POS tables

Go to Start

All Programs

Microsoft SQL Server 2005

SQL Server Management Express Studio

Server name: is name of computer

Authentication: SQL Server Authentication

Login: sa

Password: Prima123Vera

Click Connect

Click on Databases and expand it

Highlight pmdb$primavera

Up top select New Query

On the right hand side type delete pobs;

Then right click and select execute

Close SQL