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Search String

Enter search text. The text that you enter here will be used to filter results based upon the engagement manager, code and name, project manager, code and name and client number and name. Use the "|" (pipe) character between multiple search string items if desired. The "|" acts like the word "or".

Cost Center

Using the tree structure, choose a cost center to limit results to. Select Entire Organization to include all cost centers.

Engagement Type

Select a radio button to choose to filter by:

• All engagement types.
• Billable Only engagement types.
• A single specific engagement type. To do so, open the drop-down menu and select the desired engagement type.

Engagement Stage

Choose an engagement stage by which to filter results.  If you are displaying one project per row this option will be to choose the Project Stage.

Contract Terms (Time)

Select time contract terms to include only engagements or projects with matching terms. Leave blank to not filter on time contract terms.

Contract Terms (Cost)

Select cost contract terms to include only engagements or projects with matching terms. Leave blank to not filter on cost contract terms.

Show flagged engagements (projects) only

Check this box to limit to engagements or projects that are flagged (budget alert level or KPIs).

Show One

Choose either Engagement or Project and Metric. Do you want to see performance at the higher engagement level or the lower project level?

Using

This area is only available if you chose Project and Metric from the previous dropdown. Each project has a budget tab where you define a primary budget, the active budget, and additional budgets for tracking purposes. Projector's flexible budget system allows you to track by different metrics (for example, client cost vs. internal cost). Use this dropdown to choose a standardized metric for comparison purposes or all metrics for informational purposes.

• Each Project's Primary Metric Only - The primary budget is often chosen as a company standard. The default for new projects is defined in the engagement type editor. This allows you to compare 'apples to apples' when comparing project budgets.
• Each Project's Active Metrics - View all metrics defined on the project. This is great for looking at all information available on a project.
• Billing Adjusted Revenue - The amount charged to the client
• Contract Revenue - The amount based on contract rates
• Resource Direct Cost - The amount based on internal resource costs
• Chargeable Hours - Number of hours with a positive client cost
• Hours - Number of hours only
• Client Amount - Amount the client is expected to pay
• Disbursed Amount -  Amount that your company is responsible for
• Expense Amount - Amount out-of-pocket

Use Actuals Through

Any time or expenses approved before this date are actuals. Any after this date are projections. Please see Use Actuals Through Date for more information.

Display Financials In

Select from either the engagement's currency or normalize all engagements to a single currency. Available currencies are defined in the Currencies and FX Rates Editor.

Optionally include requests or unapproved time/cost cards in your dashboard calculations. This is useful when you want to include data that has not yet been approved.

• Unapproved time in actuals to date - time that has not yet been approved
• Unapproved costs in actuals to date - cost that has not yet been approved
• Requested hours in estimates to complete - requests for hours that have not yet been booked

Filter out pass-through costs in margin calculations

A pass through cost is defined in the Expense Type Editor per expense type. For example, all traveling costs might be pass-through. Most organizations do not need to use this checkbox. Please see the expense type editor documentation for more information.

Engagement Type

As defined on the Engagement Info Tab

Cost Center

As defined on the Engagement Info Tab

Client

As defined on the Engagement Info Tab

Engagement/Project Code

As defined on the Engagement Info Tab or the Project Info Tab respectively.

Engagement/Project Name

As defined on the Engagement Info Tab or the Project Info Tab respectively.

Engagement/Project Mgr

As defined on the Engagement Info Tab or the Project Info Tab respectively.

Engagement/Project Stage

As defined on the Engagement Info Tab or the Project Info Tab respectively.

Project Open Date

Only available when Show One is set to Project. Defined on the Project Info Tab.

Project Close Date

Only available when Show One is set to Project. Defined on the Project Info Tab.

Baseline Name (Time)

As defined on the Project Budget Tab

Baseline Name (Cost)

As defined on the Project Budget Tab

Contract Terms (Time)

As defined on the Engagement Contract Tab

Contract Terms (Cost)

As defined on the Engagement Contract Tab

UDF

When viewing by engagement, we show each engagement user defined field. When viewing by project we show all project user defined fields. See the User Defined Fields Editor for more information about UDFs.

Estimate at Completion

Include projections

Actuals to Date

Don't include projections

Neither

Don't show in the dashboard at all

Avg. System Rate

Average hourly bill rate after Revenue Recognition

Avg. Adjusted Rate

Average hourly bill rate after write ups or write downs.

Avg. Contract Rate

Average hourly bill rate negotiated with client.

Contract Revenue

Contract revenue at completion, consists of the contract revenue on approved time cards up to the "Actuals shown through" date plus the contract revenue on future, booked hours after the "Actuals shown through" date

Project Profit

Gross profit after accounting for resource direct costs and unrecouped project expenses.

Project Margin

Project Profit expressed as a percentage of total revenue.

Total Write Down

The difference between contract revenue and billing adjusted revenue. This can be a positive number for write ups or a negative number for write downs.

% Written Down

The ratio of contract revenue to billing adjusted revenue. This can be a positive number for write ups or a negative number for write downs.

% Complete

Percent of project or engagement completed based on number of hours worked. If your installation is using RDC basis for percent complete calculations, then this field is only available if your user has the global permission Resource Direct Cost Data.

Unbilled Amount

Amount of time not yet billed to the client.

% Unbilled

Percent of actuals not yet billed to the client.

Late Milestones

Number of pending billing milestones whose planned dates are prior to the cutoff date. This KPI is only available when displaying engagements on the Project Dashboard.

Forgone Milestones

Number of billing milestones that have been marked as foregone. This KPI is only available when displaying engagements on the Project Dashboard.

% Late Tasks

The percentage of tasks that are deemed to be late. See the section on Task Planning to learn more.

% Over Budget Tasks

The percentage of tasks that are over budget. See the section on the Budget tab of the Project Editor for more information.

Remaining Task Hours

The number of remaining hours on incomplete tasks. See the section on Task Planning to learn more.

Remaining/Booked Hours

The ratio of remaining task hours to booked hours. A ratio of less than 1 suggests that more resources may be needed. See the section on Task Planning to learn more.

% Open Issues

The percent of Issues that remain in a status that is not considered closed as defined by the closed checkbox. See the section on the Issues tab of the Project Workspace for more information.

% Open High Priority Issues

The percent of open issues that are High Priority on the Issues tab of the Project Workspace.

% Late Issues

The percent of Issues that are not closed and are past the Due Date determined on the Issues tab of the Project Workspace.

% Likelihood

Percent likelihood based on Project Stage.

Time Contract Amount

The contract amount for time from the Engagement, Contract, Time tab.

Cost Contract Amount

The contract amount for cost from the Engagement, Contract, Cost tab.

Holdback Amount

Revenue amount being heldback as defined on the Engagement, Contract, Time tab.

Holdback Percent

Revenue percent being heldback as defined on the Engagement, Contract, Time tab.

Time Contract Amount (less holdback)

The contract amount for time from the Engagement, Contract, Time tab minus the holdback amount defined on same tab.