March 2015 | Project Planning Pro - Project Management Software Blog

Once you have added dependencies to your tasks the next step is to add resources. Project Planning Pro allows you to add work type resources to your project. Work type resources are people who are part of your project who will be assigned specific tasks. You may also enter cost/use or cost/hour for your resources and Planning Pro will calculate the cost for the tasks and the project cost for you.

There are 2 ways to add a resource to a task:

Method 1: Using inline editing mode

Double-tap on a task to activate the inline-editing mode and tap on the resource name field. You can select from the available resource or add a new resource for your project (See screenshot below).

Add Resources - Project Planning Pro

Method 2: Using the Task Edit View

Tap on the gear icon next to a task and launch the Edit Task view. Tap the Resources tab and tap on resource name field to select resources or add new resources for your task. You can also manage resource allocation for your task in this view depending on the hours each resource is going to work on that task.

Resource Allocation - Project Planning Pro

Conclusion:

These 5 basic steps should help you get started with a project in no time. You can also sign up for our newsletter below for regular updates and Tips-n-Tricks.

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Step 3: Enter Durations

Step 3 covers, adding durations for your tasks. Duration of each task would the effort required to complete the task in hours or days. Note, the duration and date of the summary task (eg: Prep Work) is auto-calculated based on the duration and dates of all its child tasks (task 2-9).

Enter Durations - Project Planning Pro

In the next section we will see the most powerful feature of Project Planning Pro – Adding dependencies to tasks.

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Step 1: Set up basic project information

Create a new project and define some basic information like Project name, Start date, Author. Use the standard default calendar or create a new calendar to change weekly offs and working hours.

Create a new project:

Tap on + button on top of screen.
Name the Project
Enter Start date and Author’s name
Tap OK

You have now created your first project. We will see later how to add tasks, duration, dates and dependencies to give shape to your project.

Assign a Calendar:

Project Planning Pro comes with a Standard Default Calendar. Before you proceed, if you wish to change the calendar for your project this would be a good time to do it. Assign a new calendar to your project to select weekly-offs, change working hours, mark exception working hours or exception working days.

Create a new Calendar:

There are two types of calendar in PPP, Enterprise and Local calendar. Enterprise calendars are available across all projects. Eg: Standard Default Calendar. Local calendars can be created within a project and is available only for that project.

To create an Enterprise calendar:

Tap on settings button on Project list page and select Calendar (See image below).

Tap + and add new Enterprise calendar.

Select weekly-offs, Set working hours, Select a date on calendar to mark as holiday, Select weekly off on calendar to mark as exception working day. Save.

To create a Local Calendar:

Open a Project
Tap on project settings to create a new local calendar

Select a calendar:

Once you have created a calendar, select the new calendar to activate it for your project.

You have now set up all the basic project information for you to get started. Next we will see how to enter the Project Scope or WBS (Work Breakdown Structure)

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