Planning Tab of Roles

Use the Planning tab to establish a role's access rights to different functions in the Planning application.

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Record Level Security

Field Description
Apply Employee Record Access Select this option to restrict employee access by this role to only those employee records defined by employee record level security for Vision Activities and Project Planning.

Do not select this option if users with this security role need full access to all employee records for Vision Activities and Project Planning, regardless of the role's employee record level security access to other Vision applications.

When you select the Apply Employee Record Access option, the Use Employee Record Access option is enabled. Use this option to select a specific area for applying the record level security. The default is Info Center.

General

Field Description
Allow WBS Level Changes Select this option if the role can change WBS levels. You use the Plan Level fields together with the WBS Element fields on the Default WBS Mapping dialog to establish how data summarizes in your work breakdown structure.
Allow Changes to Baseline Select this option if the role can change the baseline. You can have only one baseline version for the current plan at any given time. If you use the Save Baseline option again for the same plan, you will overwrite the previous contents of the baseline.
Allow Changes to Percent Complete Formula Select this option if the role can make changes to the percent complete formula.
Allow Changes to Revenue Formula Select this option if the role can make changes to the revenue formula.

Rates

Field Description
Allow Changes to Budget Type Select this option if the role can change the budget type. There are three possible budget types: Cost, Billing, and Cost and Billing. Cost rates represent your firm's cost to produce a service. Billing rates represent the amount the client will pay for the service your firm provides.
Allow Changes to Rate/Method Tables Select this option if the role can change the rate and method tables.
Allow Rates Override Select this option if the role can change override rates.

Top Down Plan

Field Description
Allow to Update Plan Labor Select this option if the role can update top-down plans. When you select this option, the Update a Labor Plan button on the Top Down Plan tab of Project Planning is enabled.

Analysis

Field Description
Compensation Compensation includes all direct labor and direct expense fees.
Allow Changes to Direct Labor Fee Select this option if the role can change direct labor fees in Vision Planning.
Allow Changes to Direct Expense Fee Select this option if the role can change direct expense fees in Vision Planning.
Allow Changes to Direct Consultant Fees Select this option if the role can change direct consultant fees in Vision Planning. Consultant fees are any fees that are not included in the compensation amount, but that may be required for associated firms or consultants.
Reimbursable Allowance The reimbursable allowance amount includes all expenses that will be reimbursed to your company by the client, including reimbursable consultant fees.
Allow Changes to Reimbursable Expense Fee Select this option if the role can change reimbursable expense amounts in Vision Planning.
Allow Changes to Reimbursable Consultants Fee Select this option if the role can change reimbursable consultant amounts in Vision Planning.
Allow Changes to Overhead % Select this option if the role can change the percentage of overhead to be applied to the planned labor cost.

Resource Management

Field Description
Allow to Change Assignments Select this option if the role can modify and save assignments on dialogs to which they have access in Resource Management.
Allow to Hard Book Planned Hours Select this option for the role to see both soft and hard booking menu options within the Vision Resource Management application. In the Vision Planning application, all planned labor changes will default to hard booked.

If this option is not selected, the role is not allowed to change the booking status and Vision defaults to soft booked.

This option displays if the Use Soft and Hard Booking for Employee's Planned Hours option is selected on the Resource Management Settings tab in Configuration > Planning.