Project Top-Bottom Performers General Tab

Use the General tab to select report options for the Project Top-Bottom Performers report and to save sets of options for reuse.

Contents

Field Description
Report Name You can change the default report name.
Order Select Top or Bottom to indicate whether you want the report to display top performers or bottom performers. Then enter the number of records.

Example: To show the top ten performers, select Top and enter 10.

Format Select Dashpart to generate this report as a dashpart on your Dashboard.

Select Report to generate this report as a report.

Performer Select the type of performer for which you want to generate the report.
By Metric Select the metric by which you want to rank performance.

Columns that you add for calculated fields are not available for selection in this field.

Include Overhead Select this check box to include overhead in all pertinent calculations (profit amounts and spent amounts, for example).
Estimate Overhead If you want to generate a report showing overhead, but you have not allocated overhead for the current period, select this option to have Vision use an estimated overhead amount.

This option is only available if you first select Include Overhead.

Exclude Performers with negative Metric calculation Select this check box to omit performers for which the selected metric has a negative value.
Exclude Performers with zero Metric calculation Select this check box to omit performers for which the value of the selected metric is zero.
Print Final Totals Select this check box if you want a line at the end of the report that shows total amounts for the entire report.
Use Summary Table Select this check box to generate the Project Top-Bottom Performers report from a summary table that you update periodically using the Refresh Project Summary Table utility.

Deltek recommends that firms with large databases generate Project Top-Bottom Performers report from the summary table to generate the report significantly faster.

Use Summary Table is disabled until you run the Refresh Project Summary Table utility the first time. Thereafter, the check box label includes the date on which the utility was last run (for example, Use Summary Table (Updated: 4/5/11 12:09PM) )

Presentation Currency Select the currency in which to display all monetary amounts.

Vision converts amounts to the presentation currency using the exchange rates that are effective on the date you specify in Exchange Rate as of to do the conversions. With a few exceptions, cost amounts are converted to the presentation currency from the project currency amounts, and billing amounts are converted from the billing currency amounts.

If you are not using the Multicompany feature, you can only select a currency that is enabled for your company. If you are using the Multicompany feature, you select from a list of all currencies enabled for the companies in your enterprise.

Exchange Rate as of Click and select the date you want Vision to use to determine the exchange rates for converting amounts to the presentation currency.