Assigning Constraints

September 28th, 2009 Activities, Tools primaverarena

Constraints are used to reflect real project scenarios like your
Document submission date, Awarding of Contract…etc. Primavera’s
scheduled date might not be the one which is in reality, so that’s
where when assigning a constraint comes in to the picture. Project
constraint This is assigned to place an overall deadline for your project.
Your project
Constraints are used to reflect real project scenarios like your
Document submission date, Awarding of Contract…etc. Primavera’s
scheduled date might not be the one which is in reality, so that’s
where when assigning a constraint comes in to the picture.
Project constraint

This is assigned to place an overall deadline for your project. Your

project scheduled date might say 20th Sep 2011 which your actual
deadline might be on 1st Aug 2011
So to add a Project Must Finish by Date, you go to Projects view and
select the Dates tab on Project details and enter the Must Finish By
date
Activity Constraint
To assign a constraint to an activity, you can go to the Activity Window
and select the Status tab in the Activity details.
Types of Constraints;
1) Start on
2) Finish On
3) Start on or After
4) Start on or Before
5) Finish on or After
6) Finish on or Before
7) As Late as possible
Mandatory Start and Finish.
Notes:
1) Always add a Notebook topic once a contraint is added.
2) You can add two constraints per activity
3) Always reschedule your project after adding a constraint to calculate
the new dates.