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The Create Project page lets you quickly create a new project after specifying only fundamental details such as name, ID, planned start date, EPS, and Responsible manager.

Once the project is created successfully, you can decide what you want to do next: develop the project plan by adding WBS elements, activities, and details; run the Project Architect; create another project; or display the new project's workspace. The options that appear depend on the settings defined in your assigned user interface view.

Note: Project Architect enables you to create your project plan based on template data imported from a Methodology Management database.
Choosing a project EPS and Responsible Manager

If you are a new Oracle Primavera user, you may not be familiar with two of the fields required to create a new project

The EPS represents the hierarchical structure of all projects within the enterprise, while the OBS represents the hierarchical management structure of the organization. Each project is associated with an EPS node and each EPS element is associated with an OBS element, or responsible manager. The EPS and OBS, and their relationships, are defined in the Project Management module.

Because the EPS and responsible manager assignment are both organizational tools, the choices you make can help you more easily summarize, group, and sort project data in the way that you need. Additionally, your choice for responsible manager determines which users have access privileges to your project data, as described in the following section.

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The EPS, OBS, and project security

The EPS and OBS are used, in conjunction with security profiles, to implement and maintain secure access to project data throughout the enterprise. Within the Project Management module, individual users can be assigned to one or more responsible managers (OBS elements). Each user-OBS assignment provides the user with access rights to all EPS elements that OBS is responsible for.

Each user is also assigned global and project security profiles, which provide access to specific application functions, for example, the ability to edit certain project data elements.

You will be able to create projects only within those EPS nodes for which you have been assigned security privileges. In the Select EPS window, the icons for EPS nodes you do not have access rights to appear gray and you are not able to select them.

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