Planning Using Primavera SureTrak Project Manager Version 3.0 Revised 2006

A resource may be defined as something or someone that is assigned to an activity and is required to complete the activity. This includes people or groups of people, materials, plant, access and money.
It is recommended that you assign the minimum number of resources to activities. Avoid cluttering the schedule with resources that are in plentiful supply or are of little importance.
The following steps should be followed to create and use resources in a SureTrak schedule:
Create your resources in the Resource Dictionary
Assign the resources to activities
Manipulate the resource calendar if resources have special timing requirements.
Select Define, Resources to open the Define Resources form and add resources to the resource dictionary.

Use the
icon to insert a new resource.
Enter the Resource code, up to 8 characters long.
Enter the Description, up to 40 characters.
Enter the Units, e.g.: Hrs, Days, up to 4 characters.
Enter the Cost if you wish to calculate the cost and/or monitor cost of the resource.
Enter the Revenue if you wish to calculate the revenue that will be generated by the resource.
Driving - When No is selected, resources are assigned to activities as Non-driving. They may be changed to Driving after assignment. If Yes is selected then the reverse applies. The default for new resources is set in the Options form Defaults tab.
Level - When this option is set to No the resource is assigned...