Direct Costs Sub-Budget

You can use the Direct Costs sub-budget to create lines of type project, project group, and direct cost.

You can use this type of sub-budget to create lines of type project, project group, and direct cost. However, the structure of this sub-budget is very strict, and the line type of the individual lines is controlled by the application logic. Thus, you cannot set or change the line type manually. When you create a line in this sub-budget, it is automatically interpreted as a project line. For each direct cost line that exists on the associated main budget, one similar direct cost line is created and attached as a subordinate line to this project line. You can understand the pairing of a project line and a number of subordinate direct cost lines as a building block in this sub-budget that you cannot change, break, or in any other way manipulate. You cannot manually delete direct cost lines; however, when you delete a project, all of the subordinate direct cost lines are deleted as well.

You can create multiple projects on the same direct costs sub-budget. Some of these projects can be indented to become subordinates of other projects. When this happens, the parent project is changed into a project group.

The only lines on this sub budget that allow you to specify amounts in the periods or the total fields are the direct cost lines that are attached to project lines. The direct cost lines that are associated with a project group line sum up the associated direct cost lines that are attached to the projects and project groups that are subordinate to the project group of the direct cost lines. Project lines sum up the attached direct cost lines, and project group lines sum up the subordinate project and project group lines.

You cannot create the Direct Costs sub-budget on the budget template; it is automatically created on main budgets when you create those from the template.