Project Planning and Control Using Primavera Contractor Version 6: Including Versions 4.1, 5.0 and 6.1

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.

The Primavera Contractor Help file and other text use the terms Relationships, Links and Logic for Relationships but does not use the term Dependencies.

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, Predecessor or Successor tabs.

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

Double-click 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 Successor form.

  • 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

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