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Contents of the Manage Hour Ceilings Screen

Use these fields and options to configure the Manage Hour Ceilings screen.

Contents

Field Description
Project

Enter, or click to select, a valid project for which to enter data. This is a required field. The field to the right of the project displays the project description. 

Place the hours ceilings at the billing and revenue levels or below. Costpoint ignores any hours ceilings above these levels.

Note: If you have inactivated a project on the Basic Info tab of the Manage Project User Flow, or if the project does not allow charging, you can enter it in this field. However, inactive projects or projects that do not allow charging are not available for selection in .

Hours Ceilings

Field Description
Labor Category

Enter, or click to select, the Project Labor Categories (PLCs) to which ceiling hours are applied.

The only PLCs that are valid for data entry in this field are those that were assigned to the project on the Link Project Labor Categories to Projects screen.

If you assigned PLCs to the top-level project on the Link Project Labor Categories to Projects screen and you selected the Use Top Level Work Force check box on the Basic Info tab of the Manage Project User Flow for the project entered, only those PLCs that are assigned to the top-level project are valid for data entry in this field.  If you did not assign PLCs either to the project or to the top level project and you selected the Use Top Level Work Force check box on the Basic Info tab of the Manage Project User Flow, all PLCs that were defined on the Manage Project Labor Categories (PLC) screen are valid for data entry in this field.

Note that the Use Top Level Work Force check box on the Basic Info tab of the Manage Project User Flow does not apply to ceilings. The revenue and billings programs do not look for ceilings at the top level of the project if this check box is selected. The Use Top Level Work Force applies only to PLC validation and defaulting.

This is a required field.

Labor Category Description

This column displays the description of each PLC displayed in the Labor Category column.

You have already defined global PLC descriptions on the Project Labor Categories (PLC) screen and you defined project-specific PLC descriptions on the Link Project Labor Categories to Projects screen.

Note: If you defined a project-specific PLC description, it displays in this column. Otherwise, the global PLC description displays in this column by default.
Hours Ceiling

Enter the ceiling hours for the labor category. Ceiling hours can be positive or zero. A blank is translated as a "0.00" hour ceiling. To ensure that no ceiling hours are imposed for a given labor category, make no entry on that row.