This procedure describes how to add activities to a process from a set of process libraries. This procedure has the following sections:
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To perform this procedure:
OK buttonThe activity is added by clicking OK, which closes the dialog box. Apply buttonApply is used to add the activity; the dialog box remains opened, which allows you to add additional activities. Cancel buttonCancel closes the dialog box and voids any activity additions that occurred while the dialog box was opened, with the exception of activities you have already added by using Apply. |
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Either of two methods can be used to add activities to a process. These include:
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Insert Activities Using the User-Defined Activities Toolbar |
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Using the commands in a User Defined Activities toolbar (or Insert > User Defined Activities menu) allows only for the creation of activities of the selected type in a hierarchical mode. | |||||||||||
Due to this constraint, using the User Defined Activities toolbar is not the most flexible method for adding activities to a process. Insert Activity (described in the next section) is recommended for the most flexibility. | |||||||||||
Insert Activities Using the Insert Activity Command |
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Insert a Child Activity with Another Activity as Parent |
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Insert a Child Activity with a Resource as Parent |
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Insert Activity enables you to assign activities to resources. In order to assign these resources in V5, they must demonstrate a specific behavior, e.g., for the DPE plantypes line and station. In order to assign activities to resources in V5, you must have first created a project in DPE, and then open it in V5. The plantypes line and station have already been configured to correspond to the plantype set in the R17 release. It is on this basis that you can create the plantypes line and station resources in V5. These are the only resources in the tree that can have activities assigned to them. In the case that a resource has been selected for execution of Insert Activity , but cannot demonstrate this behavior, then the portion of the tree above the selected resource in the opened project is searched:
A parent/child relationship exists between resources and activities.activities can only be assigned to resources as children – Add as Child must be selected in the Insert Activity dialog box. |
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Insert a Successor Activity |
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Insert Activities with the PERT Chart |
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Use Insert Activity as described above, but instead of clicking on an activity in the PPR tree, click on an activity in the PERT chart.
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Assign Products to Activities in Quick Sequence |
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The Quick sequence assignment option allows you to create a sequenced set of operations rapidly, each of which has a product assigned. This option allows you to work around the task of creating a set of activities, sequencing them, and then assigning products to each of them one by one. Only activities that can be assigned to a selected object are displayed in the Insert Activity dialog box. Individual or multiple objects may be selected in the PPR tree. You first select the PPR object and then open the Insert Activity dialog. The dialog box displays only activities that can actually be assigned to the selected PPR object. When selecting several objects at a time, be sure that the selected object types are compatible with one another. If you select several objects, the program first checks their compatibility and then opens the dialog. If the objects selected are not compatible with one another, a message will call attention to this fact. If you select several objects, the option Quick sequence assignment is automatically pre-selected when you open the dialog box. |
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This method requires that the ProductList of the current PPR tree already have the desired products loaded into it. | |||||||||||
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Create Logical Activities |
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To create logical activities, use the commands on the
Logical Activities toolbar. Logical activities are created by selecting the required parent activity in the PPR tree; their position is defaulted inside the PERT chart. Available activity types are:
The Switch activity has properties, which can be edited by right-clicking on the activity in the PERT chart or PPR tree, and selecting Properties. The properties enable you to define rules to branch out in the activity flow when an activity has outgoing control flow. |
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About Start and Stop Activities |
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