Labor Resource Forecast Options Tab

Use the Options tab to limit the employees or resource categories included on the report, and to include a graph.

Contents

Field Description
Include All Employees Select this check box to include all active employees on the report. If you do, the report includes employees not budgeted in plans and employees whose budgeted hours do not fall within the periods reported on.
Include Budgeted Employees Select this check box to include employees (named resources) budgeted in plans and use the lookup to select them.
Include Labor Category Generic Resources Select this check box to include generic resource categories (for example, an architect or a geologist) and use the lookup to select them.
Include Labor Code Generic Resources Select this check box to include generic resources based on labor codes and use the lookup to select them.
Include Tasks with no Resources Assigned Select this check box to include tasks that have no named resources or generic resource categories assigned.
Use Organization from Indicate whether you want the report to use the employees' organizations, the projects' organizations, or the plans's organizations. When you group the report by organization or by an organization level, Deltek groups by the employee organizations, project organizations, or plan organizations, based on your selection in this field.
Include Employee Skill To restrict the employees included on the report to those with a particular skill, select the skill. The report only includes employees for whom the selected skill is listed on the Experience tab of the Employees hub.
Project Lookup To filter the report contents, use the lookup to select projects. If you do not, the report includes all projects unless they are excluded based on other report options.

Graph

Field Description
Show Graph

Select this check box to include a graph of one of the following types of data for each employee:

  • If you select Hours in Format, Deltek graphs forecasted hours.
  • If you select Cost Amount in Format, Deltek graphs forecasted cost amounts.
  • If you select Billing Amount in Format, Deltek graphs forecasted billing amounts.
  • If you select Revenue in Format, Deltek graphs forecasted revenue amounts.

If you select Percentage or Alerts in Format or if you select Exclude Non-working Days, this option is not available.

Limiting the Number of Employees

If the graph is difficult to read because the report includes too many employees, use the employee lookup for the Include Budgeted Employees option to select a smaller group of employees.

Height (Inches) If you select Show Graph, enter the height of the graph in inches.