In this part of the tutorial, we will have a look about how to create a project. We will also cover how to add your company’s logo, which is really interesting when it comes to presenting the project. Also we will start adding the activities or events that we have in order to accomplish the whole project.

Creating the Project

Creating projects in Primavera 3.0 (P3) is easy. Simply establish the objective and specify a start date.

1. Click Start, Programs, Primavera, and then select Primavera Project Planner.

2. Choose File, New, then type a unique four-character project name

3. Enter the version number, project title, and company name.

4. Specify the planning unit which determines the time unit P3 uses to schedule the project. In our case, it is days. Also we have to choose the Workdays/week, which is “6” in our case since Sundays are off. In addition, we have to specify that the Week starts on Monday.

5. Specify the Project start which is in our case 30 N0V 2006

6. Press Add

Adding the Logo

In the page setup, press header, then choose logo, browse the file to add the picture and press OK.

Adding Activities

1. Choose Tools, Options, Activity Inserting. Specify the increment number which is 1 in my case. Choose Insert, Activity. P3 displays the Activity form at the bottom of the project window and so we can enter an activity ID in the ID field (I inputted 1 in the activity ID). Then we specify a description for this activity. Tab button is used to move from field to field then click OK to insert another activity as shown below.

2. Insert all the activities in the project and for each activity, press on Pred (Predecessor) and choose the predecessors of this activity.

3. Specify the start node as a start milestone and the finish node as a finish milestone form the activity form.

In the following tutorial, we will cover the adding resources step which includes adding Material, Manpower, and Machines.

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