General Tab of the Application Preferences Dialog Box
Use this tab to enter or edit earned value terminology and terminology used on project prompts.
Warning: When you make changes on this tab, you must exit Cobra for the changes to take effect. You must also stop and restart all Cobra Web Service instances, including those that are deployed in PM Compass.
You can modify screens and reports to match the terminology used by your company. For example, if you use the term charge number instead of control account, you can change it on the Application Preferences dialog box, and everything within the application changes to match the term you enter.
Project Terminology
Use this group box to enter or edit terminologies.
- Control Account
- Work Package
- Control Account Manager
- Budget
- Earned/Earned Value
- Actuals
- Budget at Complete
- Estimate at Complete
Milestone Weighting
Use this group box to define milestone weight options.
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| Percentage variance of budget and milestone weight | Use this field to enter the percentage that the milestone value can vary from the budget before Cobra displays a warning message when closing the Reconcile Milestone Weight Variance dialog box in the Project view. This helps ensure that you are able to earn value in the period during which the costs were budgeted, and not introduce false variances when the project is performing as planned. |
| Milestone weight calculation accuracy | Use this field to enter the level of accuracy that Cobra will use when calculating milestone weights. The default is five digits. Five digits yield the sum of milestone weights equal to 10,000. The value entered in this field also applies to the accuracy used on Steps progress technique. If Steps is selected as project technique for a work package, the accuracy of the calculation will be based on the value entered for milestone accuracy. You can enter values only from 3 to 10. |
Precision Display
Use this group box to configure the number of decimal places that you want to display for some Cobra fields (for example, % Completed and Milestone Weight) in the Project view.
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| Precision of Percent Complete | Use this field to enter or select the number of decimal places that you want to display for the % complete value on the General tab and the Milestones/Steps tab of the Project view, and for the percent value in the Time-phase Detail pane of the Project view. |
| Precision of Time-phased Data | Use this field to enter or select the number of decimal places that you want to display for the time-phased values in the Time-phase pane or Time-phase Detail pane of the Project view. |
| Precision of Milestone Weight | Use this field to enter or select the number of decimal places that you want to display for the milestone weight value on the Milestones/Steps tab of the Project view. You can enter a value between 0 and
6. By default, this field is set to
0.
Note: Cobra imports milestone weight value with six decimal places during integration, regardless of the value specified in this field.
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| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| Default Project Template | Use this field to assign a project whose structure, classes, settings, and others are copied to all new projects created through the New Project Wizard. Selecting a default project template copies the project template's structure into the new project.
Click
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| Custom Hooks Location | Use this field to define where custom hook files are stored. Click
 to browse to the location.
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| Use Cobra 4.7 terminology 'Result' and 'Alias' for 'Field Name' and 'Result' | In Cobra 4.7,
Field Name is called
Result
and
Result (label) is called
Alias. You can choose which terminology set to use in some areas of the Cobra application. When you select this option,
Field Name is changed to
Result and
Result is changed to
Alias in the following areas of Cobra:
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