Use this screen to assign Project Labor Categories (PLCs) to each employee who is a member of the project employee work force for a specific project. You must first set up the work force in the Project Employee Work Force screen (Projects » Project Setup » Project Labor). You must first set up project labor categories in the Set Up Project Labor Categories (PLC) screen (Projects » Project Setup » Project Labor).
Use this screen to assign PLCs to employees of the project employee work force. After you assign PLCs, you need to maintain this screen only when changes are required.
Enter, or use to select, a valid project for which to enter data. If you selected the Use Top Level Work Force check box in the Maintain Project Master screen (Projects » Project Setup » Project Master), you should enter a top-level project in this field. If you did not select the Use Top Level Work Force check box, you should enter a transaction-level project in this field. This is a required field. The unlabeled field to the right displays the description of the project.
Highlight the PLCs to be linked to selected employees.
This non-editable column displays all of the PLCs that were assigned to the project; this is the set of PLCs available for that project.
This non-editable column displays the description of each PLC.
Highlight the employees to be linked to the selected PLCs.
This non-editable column displays the employees that were set up in the Project Employee Work Force screen (Projects » Project Setup » Project Labor); this is the "set" of employees authorized to charge this project.
This non-editable column displays the name of each employee.
Once you have highlighted PLCs in the Project Labor Categories table window and employees in the Employees table window, click this button to link them and to add the resulting employee/PLC records to the Employee Work Force table window.
Click this button to remove any highlighted employee/PLC records from the Employee Work Force table window.
Click this button to view a list of projects and employees who have more than one default or no default at all; both are validated in the screen. This list provides a quick view of all projects with existing problems, all of which may not be initially seen on the screen. The "and more" verbiage indicates that, as the projects that are displayed are corrected, more projects will display.
This table displays the selected employees and the PLCs assigned to them for this project. To delete a row from this table, highlight it and click the Deselect button.
This column displays all of the employees selected from the project employee work force to whom PLCs have been assigned.
This non-editable column displays the description of each employee.
This non-editable column displays the PLC that is assigned to each employee.
This non-editable column displays the description of each PLC.
Enter either Y (Yes) or N (No) in this column to indicate whether this PLC should default into the timesheet when this employee works on this project. Since you can set up multiple PLCs for each employee/project combination, you must specify which PLC should be the timesheet default.
For any given employee/project combination, there must be at least one PLC with a Y in the Defaults column. PLCs with an N will not default, but will be available for when you are entering employee timesheets. This field does not affect employee labor entered via journal entries, since no PLC defaults are offered for journal entries.
This screen updates the following table:
PROJ_EMPL_LAB_CAT