P6 Project Cleaner

Oracle Primavera P6: When Mass Deletions Become a Risk

Over the years, P6 databases tend to accumulate thousands of outdated projects and countless baselines — severely impacting system performance. Attempting to clean up this legacy data through the P6 user interface (GUI) often leads to system timeouts and inconsistent data sets, especially in large-scale projects. Manual database hygiene becomes a time-consuming task and a significant stability risk.

Maximum performance powered by our proadvise P6 web service interface “P6 Project Cleaner”.

Where the standard web interface reaches its limits, the P6 Project Cleaner delivers a robust and high‑performance solution for reliable data management. As a specialized command line application (CLI), the tool communicates directly with your EPPM database via the native P6 Web Services.

The result is a highly stable process that removes even thousands of projects - including complex baseline structures - without blocking system resources for other users, and does so with exceptional efficiency.

Originally developed to meet the stringent requirements of the high‑tech plant engineering sector, the P6 Project Cleaner today ensures consistent database hygiene in demanding Oracle Primavera P6 environments - regardless of the industry your company operates in.

Efficiency, security, and full control for your Oracle Primavera P6 administration.

Accelerated P6 data cleanup

Save valuable working time through batch processing of large data volumes. While manual deletion via the GUI often blocks hours of productive work, the P6 Project Cleaner removes countless projects and thousands of baselines reliably and fully automatically in the background.

Maximum data security

Protect your project history without any additional effort. The tool provides an option to automatically export every project scheduled for deletion as an XER or XML file immediately before removal — ensuring that you always have a legally compliant backup at hand.

Precise control options

Maintain full sovereignty over your data assets. With flexible filtering criteria such as delete codes, veto codes, or project age (e.g., Data Date or Last Schedule Date), you can precisely define which projects are archived or protected.

The advantages of our P6 Project Cleaner enable efficient data cleanup that allows users to save significant time — while ensuring maximum protection against the unintentional deletion of relevant data.

Full control through precise configuration parameters

To ensure that the P6 Project Cleaner operates exactly in line with your internal compliance and archiving policies, it provides granular configuration options for administrators:

Interface & connectivity:
The tool uses the P6 Web Services (SOAP/REST), ensuring a clean separation from the user interface and delivering highly stable database communication without timeouts.
Intelligent deletion logic:
Using the Veto Project Code, you can explicitly protect projects. Marked projects are ignored by the tool, even if they match other deletion criteria.
Legally compliant archiving:
The integrated backup function automatically exports each project in XER or XML format before deletion, ensuring your project history is securely stored externally.
Time‑based selection:
Filter projects precisely by age. Fields such as Data Date, Finish Date, Last Schedule Date, or Last Summarized Date can be used to define deletion rules.
Flexibility through custom UDFs:
For individual requirements, the tool supports filtering via custom date fields (Custom Date UDFs), enabling a tailor‑made integration into your internal processes.