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

Select Edit, User Preferences to open the UserPreferences form:
Select the Time U nits tab. The Units/Time Format allows Microsoft Project style formatting of Resource/Time Format showing Resource utilization as a percentageor as units per duration.

The Ca l culations tab has two options:
Preserve the Units, Duration, and Units/Time for existingassignments. With this option as Resources are added or deleted the total number ofhours assigned to an activity increases or decreases. Each Resource s hours are calculatedindependently.
Recalculate the Units, Duration, and Units/Time for existingassignments based on the activity Duration Type. The total number of hours assigned toan activity will stay constant as second and subsequent resources are added or removed from anactivity. Note: This function does not work when the Activity Typeis Fixed Duration andUnits/Time.

| i | This is similar to making a Task Effort Driven in Microsoft Project. There is no similarfunction in P3 and SureTrak. |