- •Table of Contents
- •Preface
- •Primavera Products
- •Using Documentation and Help
- •Where to Get Support
- •Understanding Project Management
- •Why Use Project Portfolio Management?
- •Your Role in the Organization
- •Project Management Process Overview
- •Planning, Controlling, and Managing Projects
- •Quick Tour
- •Getting Started
- •Selecting a Language
- •The Workspace
- •What Is a Layout?
- •Customizing Displays
- •Sample Layouts
- •Using Wizards
- •Defining Administrative Preferences and Categories
- •Defining Default Settings
- •Allowing Users to Define the Default Hours per Time Period
- •Defining Standard Categories and Values
- •Defining Currencies
- •Setting User Preferences
- •Formatting Time Units
- •Formatting Dates
- •Setting View Currency and Symbols
- •Setting Mail Preferences
- •Implementing Wizards
- •Creating a Log of Tasks and Setting Startup, Group and Sort, and Column Options
- •Changing Your Password
- •Setting Profile and Spreadsheet Data Options
- •Setting Calculation Options for Resource and Role Assignments
- •Selecting Startup Filters
- •Structuring Projects
- •Setting Up the Enterprise Project Structure
- •Enterprise Project Structure Overview
- •Summarizing Projects
- •Setting Up the Enterprise Project Structure
- •Adding a New Project to the Enterprise Project Structure
- •Using Project Architect
- •Working with the Enterprise Project Structure
- •Using Root Nodes to Denote Project Status
- •Defining Enterprise Project Structure Details
- •Leveling Priority
- •Anticipated Dates
- •Auto-Numbering Activity IDs
- •Setting Up the Organizational Breakdown Structure
- •Viewing an OBS
- •Setting Up an OBS
- •Editing OBS Elements
- •Defining Resources and Roles
- •Resources Overview
- •Viewing and Adding Resources
- •Default Units/Time
- •Using Limits for Delayed Resource Start
- •Defining Resource Shifts
- •Defining and Assigning Resource Codes and Values
- •Setting Up Roles
- •Assigning Roles to Resources
- •Defining Custom Resource Curves
- •Reviewing Work Breakdown Structures
- •Viewing a WBS
- •Grouping by WBS Path
- •Adding WBS Elements and Assigning Properties
- •Using WBS Milestones
- •How Weights Affect Percent Complete
- •Assigning WBS Category Values
- •Defining Earned Value Settings for Specific WBS Elements
- •Assigning Estimation Weights to WBS Elements
- •Defining Budgets
- •Top-Down Budgeting
- •Establishing Budgets
- •Establishing a Monthly Spending Plan
- •Tracking Budget Changes
- •Establishing Funding
- •Tracking and Analyzing Budgets
- •Establishing Project Codes
- •Defining and Assigning Project Codes
- •Grouping, Summarizing, and Filtering by Codes
- •Working With User-Defined Fields
- •Creating User-Defined Fields
- •Working with User-Defined Fields
- •Working with Indicators
- •Creating Calendars
- •Adding Calendars
- •Modifying Calendars
- •Implementing the Schedule
- •Establishing Activity Codes
- •Creating Activity Codes and Values
- •Grouping and Summarizing by Codes
- •Working with Activities
- •Activities Overview
- •Adding Activities
- •Defining General Activity Information
- •Defining Schedule Information
- •Establishing Relationships
- •Dissolving Activities
- •Displaying Activity Details for Assignments
- •Assigning Resources and Roles
- •Recalculating Costs/Units for Assignments
- •Choosing the Rate Source and Rate Type for an Assignment
- •Assigning Resource Curves to Resource or Role Assignments
- •Manually Planning Future Period Assignments
- •Assigning Activity Codes and Adding Expenses
- •Viewing Activity Feedback and Posting Resource Notes
- •Assigning Work Products and Documents
- •Adding Steps
- •Setting Options for Using Weighted Steps
- •Creating and Assigning Activity Step Templates
- •Viewing Activity Summaries
- •Viewing Contract Manager Documents
- •Using Global Change
- •Working with Cost Accounts and Project Expenses
- •Cost Account and Expense Overview
- •Setting Up a Cost Account Structure
- •Adding Expenses and Entering Cost Information
- •Defining Expense Details
- •Analyzing Costs
- •Performing Top-down Estimation
- •Performing Top-down Estimation
- •Applying Saved Top-Down Estimates To a Project
- •Managing Baselines
- •Creating and Maintaining Baselines
- •Assigning Baselines to Projects
- •Comparing Current and Baseline Schedules
- •Updating Baselines
- •Ensuring Baseline Data Is Updated
- •Updating, Scheduling, and Leveling
- •The Update Process
- •Choosing a Method of Updating
- •Highlighting Activities for Updating
- •Updating Progress for Spotlighted Activities
- •Estimating Progress Automatically
- •Setting Auto Compute Actuals
- •Updating Using Timesheets
- •Updating Activities Manually
- •Removing Progress from Activities
- •Interrupting Activity Progress
- •Applying Actuals
- •Storing Period Performance (Past Period Actuals)
- •Scheduling Projects
- •Types of Activity Dates
- •Leveling Resources
- •Recalculating Resource and Role Assignment Costs
- •Managing Resource Assignments
- •Summarizing Projects
- •Setting Summarization Options
- •Summarizing Project Data
- •How Data Is Summarized
- •Managing Risks
- •Adding Risks
- •Calculating Exposure Values
- •Calculating a Risk’s Impact
- •Creating and Deleting Risk Types
- •Customizing Risk Layouts
- •Project Issues and Thresholds
- •Adding Issues
- •Assigning Tracking Layouts to Issues
- •Using the Issue Navigator
- •Adding Thresholds
- •Threshold Parameter Definitions
- •Monitoring Thresholds
- •Assigning Tracking Layouts to Thresholds
- •Maintaining a Project’s Document Library
- •Specifying Document Location References
- •Assigning Work Products and Documents
- •Tracking Projects
- •Creating Tracking Layouts
- •Working with Tracking Layouts
- •Customizing Tracking Layouts
- •Comparing Projects with Claim Digger
- •Claim Digger Overview
- •Comparing Projects/Baselines
- •Comparison Data
- •Creating and Using Reflections
- •Reflection Overview
- •Creating and Using Reflections
- •Reflection Guidelines
- •Checking Projects In and Out
- •Managing Remote Projects
- •Checking Out Projects
- •Checking In Projects
- •Customizing Projects
- •Working with Layouts
- •Layout Types
- •Creating, Opening, and Saving Layouts
- •Exporting and Importing Layouts
- •Copying and Pasting Resource Spreadsheet Data to Microsoft Excel
- •Grouping, Sorting, and Filtering Data
- •Grouping Data
- •Sorting Data
- •Reorganizing Data
- •Filtering Data
- •Combining Filters
- •Customizing Layouts
- •Modifying Columns
- •Adjusting the Timescale
- •Formatting Gantt Charts
- •Formatting Activity Network Layouts
- •Modifying Resource and Activity Usage Profile Settings
- •Customizing Reports
- •Reports Overview
- •Opening Reports
- •Creating and Modifying Reports
- •Using the Report Editor
- •Adding Data Sources and Rows to Reports
- •Adding Text Cells to Reports
- •Sorting Report Data Sources
- •Customizing a Report with the Report Editor: an Example
- •Using Report Groups
- •Setting Up Batch Reports
- •Printing Layouts and Reports
- •Defining Page Settings
- •Previewing Layouts and Reports
- •Printing Layouts and Reports
- •Selecting a Printer
- •Publishing Layouts and Reports in HTML Format
- •Publishing a Project on the World Wide Web
- •Project Web Site Overview
- •Publishing a Project Web Site
- •Customizing the Appearance of a Project Web Site
- •Publishing Activity and Tracking Layouts
- •Linking the Project Management and Contract Manager Modules
- •Linking the Project Management Module to Contract Manager
- •Linking a Project Management Project to a Contract Manager Project
- •Importing Contract Manager Data to a Project Management Module Project
- •Index
Checking Projects In and Out 401
Checking In Projects
Projects previously checked out of the Project Management database can be checked back in to any Project Management module installation.
Check in projects Choose File, Check In. Click the Browse button to select the file that you want to check in, then click Next.
The relationships between all of the projects in the XER file are preserved.
Specify check in project options An XER file can contain data from several projects. The first column in the Check In Project Options dialog box lists all the projects included in the XER file. If a project with the same name already exists in the current module installation, the Match checkbox next to it is marked. To prevent data in the module database from being overwritten when you check in the XER file, double-click the Import Action field next to each project, then select one of the following options:
■Update Existing Project The existing project is updated with any new/modified data in the XER file; adds new data if the record does not exist. Select the project to update in the Import To field. You can further define how data should be updated when matches occur. Refer to “Choose update project options” on the next page for more information.
■Replace Existing Project The existing project is deleted and then replaced with the project checked in from the XER file. Select the project to be replaced in the Import To field.
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■Ignore this Project The project is not checked in.
Choose update project options Click Next to select a layout configuration to use when checking in project data. The options specified in the layout configuration determine how the module handles data in the file that match data in the database. You can create and save several different configurations; however, only one configuration can be used to check in the file. Select Yes in the Use field next to the configuration you want to use.
Click to customize the layout configuration
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Click to create a new layout configuration.
Modify a layout configuration The options specified in a layout configuration determine how data are updated when projects are checked in. To modify these options, select the layout configuration in the Update Project Options dialog box, then click Modify.
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Mark to delete risks, relationships to external projects, thresholds, activities, activity relationships, and activity resource assignments that are in the project being updated, but that are not included in the file. To keep the data, clear the checkbox.
The Modify Import Configuration dialog box lists the data types for which you can set options. Mark the Delete checkbox next to a data type to remove data that exist in the project you are updating but that are not included in the file you are checking in. For example, if several thresholds are defined in the project that you are updating, but they are not included in the file you are checking in, mark the checkbox in the Delete column to remove the thresholds from the project being updated.
The Delete field applies only to risks, relationships to external projects, thresholds, activities, activity relationships, and activity resource assignments. Global data types are not affected by this setting.
Select one of the following in the Action field to indicate how the data type is updated:
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■Keep Existing Retains data in the existing project and does not overwrite them with the updated data; adds new data if the record does not exist.
■Update Existing Overwrites data in the existing project with updated data; adds new data if the record does not exist.
■Insert New Retains data in the existing project and adds any new data items. For example, if a new role was added to the data, but you don’t want to change the existing roles, choose Insert New to add the new role to the existing project.
■Do Not Import Retains data in the existing project and does not import the updated data.
Click OK to save changes to the modified layout configuration. Click
Next. Click Finish to complete check in.
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