General Section of the Activity Form PageOverview Use this section to view dates and duration and to communicate with the project manager about the activity. If you are the primary resource for the activity, you can use the General section to edit the start, finish, and expected finish dates. Screen Elements Edit General Information link Enables you to edit activity information that is presented as read-only in the General section. Activity ID field The unique identifier of the activity. System generated by combining the system default or the user-defined auto-numbering activity ID prefix and suffix. Activity Name field The name of the activity. The activity name does not have to be unique. WBS field The name of the WBS that corresponds to the selected activity. Calendar field The name of the calendar selected for the resource. Primary Resource option Determines whether the corresponding resource is the activity's primary resource. Typically, the primary resource is the person responsible for the overall work on the activity and for updating activity status. Activity Type field The type of activity, which determines how duration and schedule dates are calculated for an activity. Task Dependent: Activities are scheduled using the activity's calendar rather than the calendars of the assigned resources. Choose task dependent when you want to control the duration of the activity yourself (that is, no resources are assigned), or when one or more resources assigned to the same activity can work according to the same calendar. The activity is scheduled according to the activity’s calendar, not the resource calendars. For example, you might have an activity to cure concrete; you know how long the task takes and the addition of resources won’t complete the task any earlier. You would designate this activity as task dependent. Resource Dependent: Activities are scheduled using the calendars of the assigned resources. This type is used when several resources are assigned to the activity, but they might work separately. Choose resource dependent when you want to schedule each resource according to his/her own time schedule, or resource calendar, not the activity calendar. The assigned resource availability determines the start and finish dates of the activity. Typically, you use this type when multiple resources assigned to the same activity can work independently, or when availability can affect the activity’s duration. For example, an activity that requires an Inspector might be delayed if that resource is assigned to multiple projects or is on vacation. Start or Finish Milestone: Milestone activities are zero-duration without resources, marking a significant project event. Choose start milestone or finish milestone to indicate that the activity marks the beginning or end of a major stage in the project. Milestones have zero duration. They can have expenses assigned to them, but not resources. In an office building addition project, examples of milestones might include Project Definition Complete, Structure Complete, or End Bidding Process. Level of Effort: Activities have a duration that is determined by its dependent activities and are typically administration type. Choose level of effort to indicate that the activity’s duration depends on its predecessor and/or successor activities. A level of effort activity is usually one that is ongoing, such as clerical work, change management, or project management tasks. For example, site cleanup could be considered a level of effort activity; it occurs repeatedly and is dependent on the completion of a phase. WBS Summary: Activities that are used to roll up date, duration, and percent complete values for a group of activities that share a common WBS code level. Choose WBS Summary to indicate that the activity is a summary-level WBS activity. A WBS Summary activity represents a group of activities that share a common WBS level. The summary-level WBS activity enables roll-ups of dates for the activity group. The duration of a WBS Summary activity extends from the start of the earliest activity in a group to the finish of the latest activity. WBS codes control which activities are part of a WBS Summary activity; P6 incorporates any activities that share a component of the WBS Summary activity's WBS code into the WBS Summary activity. For example, all activities whose WBS codes begin with A (A.1, A.1.1, A.1.2, etc.) can be part of one WBS Summary activity whose WBS code is A. At a lower level, all activities whose WBS codes start with A.1 (A.1.1, A.1.2, etc.) can be part of a WBS Summary activity whose WBS code is A.1. Duration Type field The duration type of the activity.
Percent Complete Type field The way in which the application calculates the percent complete for the activity. Auto Compute Actuals option Determines whether to calculate the expense actual and remaining units based on the budgeted or planned cost and the activity's percent complete. Started option Determines whether the activity has started. Finished option Determines whether the activity has been completed. Remaining Duration field The total working time from the activity remaining start date to the remaining finish date. The remaining working time is calculated using the activity's calendar. Before the activity is started, the remaining duration is the same as the planned duration. After the activity is completed the remaining duration is zero. Total Duration field The activity's actual duration plus the remaining duration. Percent Complete field The activity percent complete. This value is tied to the activity duration percent complete, units percent complete, or physical percent complete, depending on the setting for the activity's percent complete type, which is either duration, units, or physical. Always in the range 0 to 100. Getting Here From the Workgroup Workspace page:
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