Steelray Project Analyzer

• Can I customize checks in Analyzer for P6?

  Yes.

• Can I customize checks in Steelray Project Analyzer?

  Yes.

• Does Analyzer run in a Citrix Environment?

  We do support Citrix and have many clients running our application in Citrix. As always, when installing Steelray software, make sure that the installation is being run with administrator privileges and that the user directory is not locked down. In order to save the license information, the ins...

• Does Steelray Project Analyzer change my project file?

  In Microsoft Project, Steelray Project Analyzer uses the Marked column to perform its filtering, but this has no impact on your project schedule. Other than that, SPA won't change the project file in any way. In Primavera, a filter is added to support the filter link feature.

• Does Steelray Project Analyzer include project risk analysis, e.g. Monte Carlo simulations?

  Steelray Project Analyzer does not offer a schedule risk assessment. We recommend using a tool called RiskyProject for that.

• Does Steelray Project Analyzer run on Linux? Unix? Mac?

  No, Steelray Project Analyzer only runs on Windows.

• Do you offer training for Steelray Project Analyzer?

  We have a free training course that includes several videos available on our website. Analyzer comes packaged with a complete User Guide inside the Help menu of the tool. We also have Analyzer Feature Tutorials.  Should you require additional training and consulting, we provide that as well for a...

• How do I add multiple projects at once?

  Adding more than one project to Analyzer is simple - select the Add Project option from either the Project menu at the top of the interface, or by right-clicking Projects in the left navigation frame. From the Open file dialog, shift-click to select files consecutively, or control-click to add to...

• How do I analyze a portion of my schedule?

  Sometimes you might want to examine only a part of your schedule. Analyzer will allow you to do this by applying a Global Pre-Filter to a report. A Global Pre-Filter is a condition, or multiple conditions, that you define and save. The filter can then be used to select tasks for analysis. To cre...

• How do I customize a report template?

  Steelray Project Analyzer ships with templates that allow you to customize output in various Microsoft Office products. You can use these templates to add your company logo and other formatting to output for Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and HTML. The templates can be found in the Templates folder off...

• How do I score several projects at once?

  If you have more than one project that you'd like to analyze with a report, simply select those projects (as well as the report) and click the Analyze button. The results on the Scoring Analysis page will list each Report Name which will link to detailed results. If you have a collection of proj...

• I get "The RPC server is unavailable. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x800706BA)" error when trying to score a Project file.

  This is an error from Microsoft Project. While cryptic and uninformative, it means that Project has stopped allowing Analyzer to communicate with it for unknown reasons. A list of things to consider: There may be a prompt in Project. Project will not allow Analyzer to communicate with it if a p...

• Is Steelray Project Analyzer a stand-alone product or is it installed as an add-in for Microsoft Project?

  Steelray Project Analyzer is a stand-alone desktop application.  It includes a small add-in to Microsoft Project.

• Is Steelray Project Analyzer available in languages other than English?

  Not at this time. Contact us if this is something your organization requires.

• Multi Factor Authentication and Project Online Schedules

  If you see an error when connecting from Analyzer to Project Online, it could be that your server is configured with Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA). One possible error message for this scenario is: The partner returned a bad sign-in name or password error. For more information, see federation...

• Searching For WBS with the Filter Builder

  When you want to create a custom filter for your project in order to analyze certain tasks in your work breakdown structure (WBS), you have a couple options. Use the IsWithin or IsNotWithin operators in conjunction with the WBS field to define a range to include, or not include. The value input ...

• Using Analyzer with Project Server and Project Online

  With Project Server and Project Online, Steelray Project Analyzer communicates directly with the configured server to analyze your project. Select Configure > Project Management Platforms and click the appropriate Settings... link to configure the connection. From here you will enter the serve...

• What are the system requirements for Steelray Project Analyzer?

  Prerequisites: (Note: Administrator privileges are typically required for installation these prerequisites.) Microsoft .NET Framework v4.5.2 Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package (x86) The above pre-requisities are downloaded and installed automatically with Project Analyzer. In sec...

• What versions of Microsoft Project does Steelray Project Analyzer support?

  Microsoft Project 2010, 2013, 2016, and 2019. Note: Project 2013, 2016 and 2019 support requires version 3.2 or later. Project Server 2010*, 2013*, 2016, and 2019 *Via export to .mpp file.

• What versions of Primavera does Steelray Project Analyzer support?

  Primavera P6 version 7 and newer is supported. Analyzer can connect to the Primavera P6 database or open Primavera export files (XER files). To enable Xer file import, simply go to Configure->Project Management Platforms, then click the checkbox next to 'Primavera P6 XER file'.

• When generating an Excel report, I get the error "Not enough storage is available to complete this operation. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007000E (E_OUTOFMEMORY))"

  Excel can attempt to use more memory than is available. Here are some suggestions to work around this. Turn off task sheet generation. Turn off formatting and colors. Score a smaller subset of tasks.

• When using the Schedule Compare report in Primavera, it shows that all of my tasks have changed. Why?

  Primavera is a database. Comparing two schedules by unique ID in Primavera will always result in each task being different. It is necessary for you to create the IDs between projects to link the tasks together. You can use UDFs to accomplish this.

• Wildcard Characters and the Filter Builder

  If you want to analyze all items in your project where the value of a field matches a string fragment, you can use wildcard characters with the EqualTo and NotEqualTo operators on the Filter Builder. The ? wildcard takes the place of a single character. The * wildcard takes the place of multiple ...