IFS Provider for Primavera Gateway (PROOPG)

This document describes the Integration Solution for synchronizing data between IFS Application and Primavera.

Content

• Solution
• Architecture and Deployment View
• Installation Sequence
• Configure Primavera Gateway Deployment
• Configure Security
• Cloud Support
• FAQ

Solution

This is a new integration solution for customers to integrate between IFS Application and Primavera P6 EPPM. This solution employees Oracle Primavera Gateway application which facilitates sharing and synchronizing projects, resources, and other data between Primavera application and enterprise applications.

Architecture and Deployment View

Installation Sequence

Install Primavera P6 EPPM

Primavera P6 EPPM can be installed as described by the Oracle Documentation.

Install OPG

Oracle Primavera Gateway can be installed as described in the Oracle Documentation

Deploy IFS Provider

• When you start this step, it is assumed that, Primavera P6 EPPM, Oracle Gateway and IFS Application have been installed.
• Download 'IFS Provider for Primavera Gateway' from the Add-on page. Extract and copy content into Primavera Gateway Server. Copy the content of ifsprojectprovider188 into <PrimaveraGatewayInstallationDir>\providers\IFSProjectProvider
• Deploy that provider to Primavera Gateway. Detail instruction on deployment instructions are described in the Oracle Primavera Gateway documentation.

Configure Primavera Gateway Deployment

• Configure IFS Project provider deployment;
  Using a browser, enter the Primavera Gateway URL.
  <hostname>:<port number>/gateway/login
  Where, the <hostname> and <port number> should match those of your Primavera Gateway domain.
• Log into Primavera Gateway with Gateway Administration credentials.
  Note: You must be assigned the PrimaveraGatewayAdmin role.
• In Primavera Gateway, select the Configuration tab, Deployments.
  A list of providers added at installation display.
• In the Provider Name column, select the IFS Project Provider and select the Edit button.
• In the Edit Deployment General and Edit Deployment Configuration pages, complete the applicable fields as below
  User Name – IFS User that has granted the role OPG_SYNCHRONIZER (You will setup the permission set in security configuration)
  Password – Password of the above user
  IFS Middleware Server URL – In the format \\<hostname>:<port number>
• Select Test Connection to see if a successful connection can be made.
• Select Save.
  
  To configure P6 Provider deployment please follow the Configuring the P6 deployment target section in the Primavera Installation and Configuration Guide.

Configure Security

In the IFS Solution Manager, ensure that the permission set "OPG_SYNCHRONIZER" is granted to the integration user. This permission set grants the necessary projections for the user. If the permission set does not exist after installation, it should be created manually (Run proopg\source\proopg\database\POST_Proopg_PermissionSet.sql).

User Defined Date Support

It  is a mandatory step to create UDF (User Defined Fields) for succsful integration.To create UDF in P6 EPPM, follow the standard documentation for Primavera Gateway. During the setup, you may point out the following file IfsProjectP6DataSetup.xml in component proopg\source\proopg\server\ifs_project_provider\ifsprojectprovider188\data\p6data.

Cloud Support

For this particular release UPD8, IFS has not tested any cloud scenarios and only the On-Premise configuration has been tested.

Web Services

IFS have developed set of web services to support the Primavera Gateway Solution. These services are intended only for this solution only. You may view the detail documentation of the web services by browsing to the IFS environment as below.

<IFS web server URL>:<port>/main/ifsapplications/web/page/ProjectionExplorer/ProjExplorerPage

FAQ

• What version of IFS Applications, Primavera and Gateway are supported?

            IFS Application 10 UPD8 onwards. Oracle Primavera Gateway 18.8 and Primavera P6 EPPM versions compatible with Primavera Gateway 18.8.

• What is the difference between Old integration and this solution?

          Old integration is based on Primavera API this is not supported for cloud deployment. Hence, the old solution could not be deployed in cloud environment.

• Does the old integration work in UPD8?

          Yes, it works but the solution will be made obsolete in UPD9.