After the project structure is created, you should register the activities related to the subprojects. See About Activities for more information on activities. All cost and hours are accumulated on the activities, and cannot be assigned directly to a subproject.
Objects, for example tasks, work orders, document packages, and purchase orders can be connected to activities. These objects report progress, cost and hours to the activity based on the progress method and planned cost driver of the activity. If you wish, you can change the default progress method and the planned cost driver for your activities. In addition, resources can be allocated to activities. The committed and actual cost/hours of an activity can also be updated through IFS/Project Reporting.
You can also enter the number of workdays that is required to complete an activity in days. However, the system utilizes the pre-defined for hours per work day value to convert the days you enter into minutes, when performing a scheduling calculation or manually entering Early Start, Early Finish and/or Total Work Days. The early start, early finish, and total work days values are connected. If two values are given, the third one will be calculated based on these two, together with the working periods in the project’s calendar and the Hours per Work Day value. If the activity has both Actual Start and Actual Finish dates, the total work days cannot be manually updated.
You can use an activity class as a method of categorizing the activities of
your project. An activity class can be assigned to more than one activity.
Example: The project has 50 activities that you wish to categorize according to
the department that would be handling them. You can define an activity class
called Departments, and then enter the names of the departments (Finance,
Procurement, Sales etc.) as the values.
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