Primavera P6 Product Code How To Create And

Reporting Now that we have created and assigned our subcontractors we can proceed creating reports.

So once you have all your deliverable Work Breakdowns Structure (WBS) elements and associated activities listed in your schedule, you most likely will receive activity report requests from upper management.

Completing the list of WBS elements and associated deliverables is a major step forward in the planning phase of a schedule; this list is the backbone of the schedule.

Creating and assigning activity codes to individual activities provides a means for creating useful activity reports.

Schedulers create and assign activity codes to activities which enables the creation of a wide variety of reports.

Primavera P6 Product Code How To Create And

This article demonstrates how to create and assign activity codes to activities in Primavera P6 Professional to support schedule reporting.

Creating Codes Our demonstration project is displayed in Figure 1.

Figure 2 In the activity codes dialog toggle project, and select the modify button, Figure 3.

Figure 3 Next, in the activity code definitions project dialog select the Add button, Figure 4.

Figure 4 Type in the activity code header name Subcontractors and make the maximum code length 10, Figure 5.

In the activity codes dialog click the Add button to define our first subcontractor activity code, Figure 6.

Figure 6 Type in the appropriate code value and description, Figure 7.

Figure 7 Continue adding code values until all subcontractors are listed, Figure 8.

Figure 8 Assigning Codes Add the column subcontractors to the activities table, and we will be ready to assign codes.

In the bottom details select codes, Figure 9, highlight the Total Engineering subcontractor and assign it to the start project activity.

Figure 10 Well because total engineering performs most of the work it makes sense to populate the entire column with this subcontractor, and then make changes to the few activities assigned other subcontractors.

Use the fill down feature in Primavera P6 to simulate a copy and paste procedure down the column.

Highlight the column starting at the assigned start project activity down to the last activity in the schedule, Figure 11.

Figure 11 Right click and select fill down from the popup menu, Figure 12.

Figure 12 For more detailed instructions on the fill down feature refer to the blog Using Fill Down, Copy Paste In Primavera P6.

Figure 13 Double click on the subcontractors cell in the activity table to change the subcontractor assigned to the respective activity, Figure 13.

All subcontractor assignments are complete and displayed in Figure 14.

Figure 14 Great So we are done with all the subcontractor activity assignments.

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