Baseline Change Alert Configuration Dialog Box

Baseline Change alerts notify team members when there is a change to the baseline after you save the current version of the plan as the baseline version. This is useful for comparing baseline labor costs to actual labor costs onscreen or in a report.

Location

To display the dialog box:

  1. From the Vision Navigation menu, click Configuration > General > System Alerts.
  2. In the Folders field on the System Alerts Configuration form, select Resource Planning.
  3. In the grid, click Baseline Change and then click .

Contents

Alerts Grid

Field Description
Grid Drop-down

Click the drop-down arrow on a grid header to complete any of the following actions:

  • To print grid data, click Print. On the Print Preview form, click File > Print to send the grid data to your default printer.
  • To export grid data to an Excel spreadsheet, click Export to Excel. When Microsoft Excel opens, use its features to modify, print, or email the grid data, or to save the spreadsheet file locally.
  • To turn on grouping for a grid, click Enable Grouping. When a field displays with the instruction: "Drag a column header here to group by that column," drag and drop column headers into the field, in the sequence that you want them to display.

Not all options are available on all grids.

New Click this option to insert a row beneath the current row.
Copy Click a row and then click this option to add a copy of the selected row to the grid.
Delete Click a row and then click this option to delete it.
Alert Rule Name Select an existing alert rule name or enter a new one. You can change the name of an existing rule. Each rule name must be unique.
Enabled Select this option to enable the rule. When the alert is active, you can enable only selected rules, without having to delete any unwanted rules. In other words, if the alert is active, then any of its enabled rules can run. If the alert is not active, then none of its rules can run.
Languages

If you use multiple languages, use this column to select the language for this alert. Only employees with the selected language receive the alert. However, if you leave this column blank, all employees receive this alert regardless of their designated language.

For example, if you create an email alert for English US and English UK, then only the users that have English US or English UK in the Language field in the Employee Info Center receive that message. The system administrator must set up a separate alert rule for Spanish employees to receive a message in Spanish. The Language field displays <languages selected> if any languages are selected.

Alert Criteria

Field Description
Selected Plans On the Plan lookup, select the plans for which you want to be alerted.

Send To

Select the employee(s) or employee group(s) to receive the alert.

Field Description
Principal Select this option to send the alert to the project principal (specified on the General tab of the Project Info Center).
Project Manager Select this option to send the alert to the project manager (specified on the General tab in Project Info Center).
Supervisor Select this option to send the alert to the project supervisor (specified on the General tab of the Project Info Center).
Selected Employees On the Employee lookup, select the employee(s) to receive the alert.

Delivery Options

You can select one or both of these options.

Field Description
Email Select this option to send the alert via an email message. Links in the email message provide easy access to the appropriate application area. If you select this option, complete the corresponding Email Options.
Notification Center Select this option to send the alert via the notification center.

Email Options

These options are activated when you select Email for the delivery option.

Field Description
Subject Enter the subject for the email message.
Message Text Box

Select one or more of the following actions:

  • Enter text directly in the text box.
  • Position the cursor in the text box and click Insert Field to open the Column Selection dialog box and select related fields to add to the email message text.
  • Click Edit to use formatting options on the Text Editor dialog box as you enter text.

Buttons

Field Description
OK Click this button to save entries and changes on the dialog box and dismiss it.
Cancel Click this button to dismiss the dialog box without saving entries and changes.
Help Click this button to open the help topic for the dialog box.