Install LFH in Two Minutes: From License Key to a Live DCMA-14 Dashboard
We've made the case for automating the DCMA-14 health check. This is how fast it is to stand up — two short screen recordings that take you from a license key to a live dashboard reading your Primavera P6 program. No Primavera add-in. No admin rights.
Most schedule-quality tools ask you to install something inside Primavera, request admin rights, or stitch together XER exports. LFH does none of that. It ships as a single folder — the dashboard, the installer and the license — and reads the P6 database directly.
One folder, no Primavera add-in
The setup is two halves. First, a small configurator wires everything up:
- Run
LFH_Setup.exe— a compact configurator window opens. Nothing is installed inside Primavera. - Paste the license key and click Validate key — it confirms VALID, the customer code and the expiry date.
- The license binds to the machine using a stable Windows ID — so a change of wifi, ethernet or VPN never breaks activation.
- Click Browse… and select the Primavera P6 Professional SQLite database (
.db). Versions v19 through the 2026 v26 share the same schema. - Click Activate & configure — it creates the ODBC data source pointing at that database. No admin rights required.
Open the dashboard and refresh
The second half is Power BI. Open LFH_Dashboard.pbit in Power BI Desktop — the one parameter, DsnName, is already filled in. Click Load. On a machine's first run, set File → Options → GLOBAL → Privacy → "Always ignore Privacy Level settings", then hit Refresh.
The refresh reads the P6 database directly — roughly thirty to sixty seconds, even at 60,000-plus activities.
From a license key to a full DCMA-14 read
When the report finishes, the main page shows the full health check on one screen: 17 schedule-quality checks — logic, leads and lags, relationship types, hard constraints, float, duration and invalid dates — plus a project slicer, CPLI and BEI. Pick a schedule and the tiles turn red, yellow or green; hover any tile to drill into the failing activities.
That's the whole point of LFH: the DCMA-14 assessment stops being a manual chore you skip when deadlines close in, and becomes a five-minute baseline you can trust on any program, any week.
From a license key to a full DCMA-14 read in two minutes. Reclaim your Monday.
LFH is in closed beta. We're onboarding a limited group of early-access users before the public launch at awplabs.cl. If you run DCMA-14 audits on Primavera P6, join the waitlist.