Project Planning and Scheduling Using Primavera Version 4.1: For Engineering & Construction and Maintenance & Turnaround

9 Adding Relationships

Overview

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

  • Relationships ( Dependenciesor Logic or Linksbetween activities), and

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

Primavera Version 4.1 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 adependency.

  • By opening the Activity Details form.

Predecessor and Successors may be added and deleted from the Relationships tab.

  • By editing or deleting a dependency using the Edit Relationshipform.

Double-click on an activity link in the Bar Chart or PERT view.

  • 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 Successorform.

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

Select the activities in the order they are to be linked, right click and select Link Activities.

  • Hard Logic, also referred to as Primary Logic, are dependencies that may not be avoided: for example, afooting excavation has to be prepared before concrete may...

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