Can not filter on Start or Finish date

You have a simple requirement: display only the activities that finish on 25-Jan-16.

As usual, you create a filter based on that finish date:

Then… SURPRISE – the screen is completely blank.

To find the answer, you need to check the time component of your activity dates.

Go to:

Edit → User Preferences → Dates tab → “Time” section → select “24 Hour”

This setting allows you to see not just the date, but also the exact start and finish times of your activities.

Now you can see the Time when activity start and finish.

Once the time is visible, you’ll notice an important detail:

• When you define a filter by date (e.g., Finish = 25-Jan-16), Primavera P6 automatically sets the time to 00:00 (midnight).
• This means P6 is actually searching for activities that finish exactly at 25-Jan-16 00:00.

In reality, most activities finish later in the day, so they don’t match the filter, and the result is an empty screen.

To fix this issue, you need to adjust your filter criteria to cover the entire day, not just midnight:

Now P6 correctly displays all activities with a finish date of 25-Jan-16.