PROJ08 — Project Month Analysis

Operational Reports > Project

Who would use this report?

Project managers and senior management

What is in this report?

proj08Actual and budget to cost category type and cost category levels.

Values are broken down by month, according to a selected range of months, and presented in crosstab format for easy period comparison.

How do I use it?

Sort options:

• Sort By — sortArrange elements of a list in a certain order. The most-used orders are numerical order and lexicographical order. by project, parent project, branch, projectIn Framework Manager, a set of models, packages, and related information for administration, and for sharing model information.In Metric Studio, a project is a task or set of tasks undertaken by a team and monitored on a scorecard. A project tracks the dates, resources and status of the project.In Metric Designer, a project is a group of extracts. Each extract contains the metadata that is used to populate the Metric Studio data store or to create applications. manager, and customer

• Secondary Sort By — specify a secondary sort order

FiltersSelectively remove data from view. include:

• As at Period — setA selection of members in a dimension the end month for the reportA set of data deliberately laid out to communicate business information. Depending on the context, 'report' may refer to report specification or report output. Report (more precisely, report specification) is the generic term for the objects created or edited in Cognos Analytics. Pronto Xi Business Intelligence offers a suite of standard reports.

• Number of Periods — set the number of months to report ending in the As At Period

  If this promptA report element that asks for prompt values on which to filter or sort a report. is set to 6 and the As At Period is set to June, the report will return data for January to June shown by month. Report totals for Actual, Budget and Forecast aggregate for this derived month range.

• Project Level — specify whether you want to see the project or parentA member of a hierarchy to which the child members belong. The “Parent” function is part of the family set of functions and returns the parent member of the specified member. For example: SELECT Parent( [Time].[Year].[Period].[July 2010] ) ON Rows FROM [General Ledger] Result: 2010 (the year 2010 is the parent of [July 2010]) project for the following filters:

  • (Parent) Project Date Type — choose one of five date types from the project master file to govern the project date selection

  • (Parent) Project Date Selection — define the report time frame for filtering Projects (for example, show all, entered dates, calendar YTD, and so on)

  • (Parent) Project — provides search options:

    • Project Code Entry — enter a single project code, or a range
    • Project Code Search — search by project code and multi select

  • (Parent) Project Customer — provides search options:

    • Customer Code Entry — enter a single customer code, or a range
    • Customer Code Search — search by customer code and multi select
    • Keyword Search — search through all customer keywords

Other available project master related filters include Project Manager, Project Status, Branch, Job Type, Project Type, Nature Type, Market Type, and Work Type.

Other non-project master related filters include Cost Category and Cost Category Type.

What can I do in the report?

You can sort by project, parent project, branch, project manager, and customer.

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