Assigning Resources From Large Pool to New Project.

Assigning resources from large pool to your project can be time consuming?
Trying to solve this problem by using Primavera P6's search capabilities still results in searching
for an individual resource every time you try to add one to an activity. It’s laborious and doesn’t
save that much time and effort.

First, create an activity in your project; this will be a dummy activity that will be deleted later.
Then go through and assign all the resources that you’re going to be using on your project to
this dummy activity. This of course, doesn’t save you any time yet. Also, remember that you can
use CTRL Click to select multiple resources at one time.
When they are all assigned, you can then change the filter on the Resource Assignment dialog
to show just the projects resources.

Now, only the Primavera P6 resources that you need for your project are displayed
in this considerably shorter list. When you’re done creating activities and assigning
resources, simply delete the dummy activity. If you need to add more activities after
you’ve deleted the dummy activity, then resources that you’ve already assigned to
your project are still available in the filtered list.