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Claim Digger Overview
Today’s blog discusses the features and functionality of the Claim Digger utility in the P6 software application. Claimdigger is actually its own separate product that has been built in to P6. It is an application that compares two project plans, a revised project and a baseline projects, and creates a report on the differences between the project plans including:
- Items changed
- Items deleted
- Changed Values
The main features of Claim Digger include:
- Multiple reporting formats- HTML, CSV, Text
- Selects a base project and revised project to compare
- Report comparison options can be turned on and off as needed
Steps to Access Claim Digger
Step 1: Go to tools menu and open Claim Digger
Step 2: After Claim Digger is launched, the main application window appears
Step 3: Specify which projects you would like to compare.
- On the left side select the revised project
- On the right side select the original project baseline
Step 4: Choose a report format
- HTML file
- CSV file
- ASCII text file
Step 5: Select report type and report path
Step 6: Click the advanced button to pull up the advanced settings where you can specify what data to compare including: overall project data and activity level data
Note: You can configure what factors to compare including:
- Costs
- Units
- Durations
- Percent complete
- Relationships
Step 7: Click compare to generate the project difference report and view the preview
Step 8: The project difference report outlines what projects are being compared, the user who initiated, and shows the activities that have had a value change
Step 9: After you have reviewed the data, go to file and close down the Claim Digger dialog box.
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