Project Planning & Scheduling Using Primavera Contractor Version 4.1: For the Construction Industry

Chapter 9: Adding Relationships

Overview

The next phase of a schedule is to add logic to the activities. There are two types of logic:

  • Relationships ( Dependencies or Logic or Links between activities), and

  • Imposed Constraints to activity start or finish dates. These are covered in the CONSTRAINTS chapter.

Primavera Contractor s Help file and other text use the terms Relationships and Logic for Relationships but does not use the terms Dependencies or Links.

We will look at the following techniques in this chapter:

Topic

Notes for creating a SF Relationship

  • Graphically in the Bar Chart.

Drag the mouse pointer from one activity to another to create a dependency.

  • By opening the Activity Details form.

Predecessor and Successors may be added and deleted from the Relationships, Successors or Predecessors tabs.

  • By editing or deleting a dependency using the Edit Relationship form.

Double-click on an activity link in the Bar Chart or PERT view, the curser will turn appear as an when the link is selected..

  • Opening the Assign Predecessor form or the Assign Successor form from the menu.

  • Select Edit, Assign, Predecessors , or

  • Select Edit, Assign, Successors .

  • By displaying the Predecessor and/or Successor columns.

Double clicking in the Predecessor or Successor cells will open the Assign Predecessor form and the Assign Successor form.

  • Chain Linking or Automatically Linking activities with a start to finish relationship.

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