P6 and Open Plan Activity Priority

You perform resource leveling to schedule project tasks so that no resource is overloaded. You set a priority for each task to specify the order in which the tasks are completed.

For example, you have one painter who is scheduled to paint three houses in week #1, but it takes 40 hours to paint a house. Resource leveling reschedules the three house-painting tasks so that the painter paints one house per week for three weeks. The system looks at the Priority field to determine which house will be painted first, second, and third.

Open Plan and Primavera P6 both have a Priority feature. In Open Plan, the field is called Priority and is located on the Advanced tab of the Activity Details dialog box. In P6, it is a column on the Activities tab called Activity Leveling Priority. The Open Plan Priority field is automatically mapped to the P6 Activity Leveling Priority field in the following manner:

Open Plan Priority	P6 Priority
-2 or less	TOP
-1	HIGH
0	NORMAL
1	LOW
2 or greater	LOWEST

In order for this to take effect, you must also select Priority as one of the priorities on the Advanced tab of the Resource Scheduling dialog box.