Lecture 2

Export your
project
Export your
project
Export your
project
Export your
project
Export your
project
Export your
project
Import your
project
Import your
project
Import your
project
Import your
project
 How to edit
relationships
Apply these
relationships
Find total float or
free slack
Insert an activity  Add activity
somewhere  Change ID as required
between existing  Update relationship
activities
 EDITING
FORMATTING CUSTOMIZATIONS
How to format  Edit > Use preferences
the dates
Changing bar  View > Bars
format
Showing info  View > Bars
near bar
 Showing legend
 View > Bar > options
for bars
Bottom layout
 View > Bottom layout options
options to add
remove tabs
Another way of  Move your mouse near link arrow on Gantt
changing chart and double click when you see up arrow

relationship
How to change
row height
 Changing  This is not for printing, just for display
background color
Progress spot
light
 To write
comments on
timeline area
Different phases of project
 Changing
header color of  View > Timescale

timescale
• View > Timescale

Time scale start

  To print according to your divide line
Printing
 To print some
specific interval
Creating WBS
Dictionary
Creating WBS Dictionary
Creating WBS
Dictionary
Adding activities
to WBS
Adding activities  Another method of doing same thing is to add
a WBS column and select WBS from there
to WBS
 Grouping
 View > group n sort
according to
WBS
Apply this WBS
 Adding user
defined fields
 Adding user  Add columns
defined fields
 Adding user
defined fields
Creating OBS
Create this OBS
 Assign  Goto WBS mode > add
Responsible column “responsible
Manager manager”
 Creating activity codes

 Division wise / city wise / contractor wise

 Enterprise > activity codes

 Used for grouping

Creating activity
codes
 Assigning
Activity Codes
  Pre-requisites for resources
 Default currency
Resources  Costing unit
 Material measuring units
 Edit > user preferences
Default currency
 PKR won’t be available
  Admin > currencies
Default currency
  Normally contracts are in USD
Default currency
Changing
defaults of
project
Changing costing
unit
 Defining  Admin > admin categories
Material Unit