Activity Creation Options

Use any of these methods to create new activities:

• Add an activity on the Activity Definitions - General Information page and enter the required information.

• Add an activity to a project on the Project Activities page.

  Activities created on the Project Activities page are merely placeholders with activity IDs and high-level descriptions sufficient to add transactions. Use the Activity Definitions - General Information page, and other pages in the Project Activity component (PROJECT_ACTIVITY), to create and further define these activities.

• Use activities on a predefined project template (see Create Project From Template Page) or copy an existing project and activities (seeCopy Project Page).

• Create project activities from other PeopleSoft applications such as PeopleSoft Proposal Management (see PeopleSoft Proposal Management: Preparing and Generating Proposal Information) or PeopleSoft Contracts (see PeopleSoft Contracts: Assigning Projects and Activities to Contracts).

• Create project activities from Microsoft Project tasks (see Understanding Integration of PeopleSoft Project Costing with Microsoft Project.

• Upload activities from third-party applications by using the Project and Activity Loader Application Engine process (PC_INTF_GEN) using the Load Projects and Activities Page (see alsoUnderstanding Third-Party Data Integration).

• Upload activities from Microsoft Excel by using the Excel to Component Interface utility.

  See PeopleTools: PeopleSoft Component Interfaces, "Using the Excel to Component Interface Utility."