Technical Requirements for Connected Cost - Primavera P6 Integration

This information lists and describes what is needed for you to integrate Primavera P6 schedule data with the Cost Management module.

Integration Requirements

Note: EPPM and the P6 desktop client use the same database.

The following security policies in the current integration have to be changed in order to succeed.
- Timestamp must be disabled.
- For the Username Password profile, Nonce and Created Time must be disabled.
- Encryption and signed messages must be disabled.
The customer needs to expose the web service on port 443
We only support HTTPS
- We require a SSL certificate signed by a public root authority. This cannot be self-signed.
P6 Web Services Security: Username Token Profile
- We require Basic authentication with username and password. Learn more
To be able to pull data into Connected Cost, the user we connect as must have at least READ permission on the following P6 entities:
- Activity
- ActivityCode
- ActivityCodeAssignment
- ActivityCodeType
- Expense
- Project
- ResourceAssignment
- WBS
To support the Connected Cost pushing the activity codes into P6, we need at least WRITE for:
- ActivityCode
- ActivityCodeType.