If you wish to link a group a link a group of Activities without assigning then one by one, Primavera P6 version 7 now can help you resolve that big headache. Do a Shift click and select the Activities you wish to link. Once its done go to Edit and select “Link Activities” and tadaaa…
As you know Primavera P6 is not a File based system, you need to export Project files if you wish to share your project with someone not in your network via email or other electronic delivery system. Export a Project file is simple and the exported file is a compressed file of all you project
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Grouping and Sorting: If you ever wanna group a set of Activities in terms of Activity codes or WBS data, you can always go to the Group and Sort under the View on the menu. A dialog box will appear with the options and you can select the criteria by which you can do your
Work Products and Documents helps you to link documents to relevant Activity or WBS. To create a Work Products and Document you can open a Project and select the “WP & Docs” button found on the Directory bar. Once you are in the WP & Docs window you can create a new document record by
Constraints are used to reflect real project scenarios like your Document submission date, Awarding of Contract…etc. Primavera’s scheduled date might not be the one which is in reality, so that’s where when assigning a constraint comes in to the picture. Project constraint This is assigned to place an overall deadline for your project. Your project
Once the relationships between activities are set, the next step is scheduling your project plan. Scheduling involves Critical Path Method (CPM), which is basically using the Activities duration and the relationships to calculate your Activity schedule dates. The calculation is done by two passes; 1) Forward Pass and 2) Backward Pass Scheduling in Primavera is
Once the creation of Activities is done, the next step would be to create Relationships or “Dependencies” (in Microsoft Project terminology). As every Activity needs a Successor or Predecessor, you also need to know which Activity becomes the Successor and the Predecessor…why? Because it is the Predecessor that controls the start date and Successor controlling
After adding WBS the next step is to add activities. There are several ways to add an activity. 1. Go to Edit, then select User settings, select the Assistance tab and check the activity wizard and close. Now select add on the command bar and the wizard activates. Now unselect the Check the no wizard
WBS or the Work Breakdown Structure is created to break your Prject into logical pieces for the purpose of grouping, sorting and many other features in Primavera. Especially when you use any Tools in Primavera, you will encounter on how important a WBS can be. It is inside these WBS that Activities are created and
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