Contents of the Grid Settings Dialog Box for Project Planning Grids
Use the fields and options to select columns to display in the planning grids on the Plan form of the Projects hub and to select other options for those grids.
The set of columns from which you can choose for each grid is determined by selections your system administrator makes on the Grids tab of the Resource Planning Settings form.
Contents
| Field | Description |
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| Sort Resources By | Select a sorting option for resources within the work breakdown structure (WBS) groups in the grid:
This field is not available if you are selecting columns for the grid on the Contract tab. |
| Show Project Numbers | To display the WBS element numbers in the grid along with the element names, select this check box. |
| Select Columns For | Select
Cost View or
Billing View on the Labor, tab, Expenses tab, and Consultants tab to indicate which view you want to select columns for. If you want to select columns for both views, select them for one view, change the option in
Select Columns For, and select them for the other view. When you click
Apply, the columns for both views are updated.
If a plan is set up in the Plan Settings dialog box to support planning for both cost and billing, you can view planned amounts in the grid at cost or at billing. When you switch between those two views, Vantagepoint also displays the corresponding set of columns. If a plan is only set up for cost or only for billing, just that set of columns is used in the grid. This field is not available if you are selecting columns for the grid on the Contract tab. |
| Find Available/Selected Columns | Use these search fields to filter long lists of available columns. Enter one or more alphanumeric characters in the search field to display a list of columns that contain those characters. |
| Available Columns | This list contains all of the columns that you can include in the grid but are not currently selected for display. To add a column to the grid, click the column in this list to move the column to the Selected Columns list. |
| Selected Columns |
This list contains all of the columns that are selected to display in the grid, in the order they appear in the grid from left to right. To change the column order, hover over the row for a column that you want to move, and click-and-drag
To remove a column from the grid, click
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| PIN |
If you select a column for the grid on the Labor tab and you want that column to remain visible when you click
Show less, click
If you click Show less at the top of the Level/Resource column to hide the columns in the middle section of the grid, all unpinned columns are temporarily hidden, but pinned columns continue to display. This icon is not available if you are selecting columns for the grid on the Contract, Expenses, or Consultants tab. |
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The order of the columns from top to bottom in the
Selected Columns list is the order they appear, from left to right, in the planning grid. To change that order, hover over the row for a column, and click-and-drag
 to move the column.
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| Restore Defaults | If you change the settings or columns for the grid and then want to restore the default settings and columns, click
Restore Defaults. The organization, project manager, and status columns are not included as default columns.
If you are selecting columns for the Labor tab, Expenses tab, or Consultants tab on the Plan form, this action only restores the default columns for the view currently selected in the Select Columns For field. To restore the default columns for the other view, select that view in Select Columns For and click Restore Defaults again. |
| Save | After you select the settings and columns that you want, click Save to close the dialog box and update the grid. |
to the right of a column in the
to the right of the selected column to "pin" it to the grid.
