The Dashboard tab includes an overview of the top level of your project's dates and core financial information, including start and end dates, client name, project name, number, and manager, and various key multipliers and amounts.
Refer to these fields for a high-level project summary, and use the dashparts for a graphical representation of how these amounts are applied on the project. You can also click on many of the fields and dashparts to view calculations for the various amounts. All of this information can be quickly accessed and used to determine how your project is tracking.
While viewing data on the Dashboard, you can also click the
Refresh option at any time to refresh the project data and ensure you are viewing the most accurate information.
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The
Budget Type option on the Plan Settings dialog box allows you to specify how you want to view the plan's amounts, at billing or at cost. After you make a selection, the
Billing or Cost options display on the Dashboard to indicate what you are viewing. If both options display, you can switch between
Billing or Cost and the tab's fields, charts, and grids will update to reflect your selection. Note that as you switch between billing and cost, there may be different criteria that display on the chart.
See the Switch Dashboard Amounts from Billing to Cost online help topic for more information.
If your firm uses Vision Multicurrency, the currency in use is indicated next to the
Billing
and
Cost options. For example,
Billing (USD)
displays if you are viewing the plan at billing and in U.S. dollars. The Project Currency is always used when viewing projects and plans at cost. The currency used when viewing projects and plans at billing is determined by a Vision Configuration setting that your system administrator selects. See the Use Project and Billing Currencies online help topic for more information on currencies.
Note: The Accounting tab in
determines your access rights to labor costs rates and amounts in Navigator. When you select the Cost option, some information may not display because of your security access. See the Security Settings and Labor Cost Amounts online help topic for more information.
Some of these fields have different functionality depending on if you are using Vision 7.2 or Vision 7.3. Refer to the appropriate section within each field description for your application.
| Field | Description |
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| Project
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This field displays the project's identification number and the project's short name, from
.
Note: Even though the project's long name does not display in Navigator, when you search on a project name, Navigator searches the project number and both the long and short name as entered in Vision.
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| Client
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This field displays the name of the primary client associated with the project.
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| Project Manager
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This field displays the name of the project manager for the project (WBS1) level.
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| Contract Start - End
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This field displays the start and end dates for the project. The dates are based on the Initial Dates: Start and
Completion Dates: Estimated
fields in the
. These dates may differ from the dates on the Planning tab because planned dates may be outside the contract date range.
- If the
Initial Dates: Start field in the
is blank, the field displays the end date.
- If the
Completion Dates: Estimated
field in the
is blank, the field displays the start date.
- If both dates are blank in the Project Info Center, no dates display.
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| Contract
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This field displays the total contract amount, which is the sum of the Labor + Expense + Consultant amounts.
You can click on the Contract label to see a breakdown of the amount that displays.
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| Labor Target Multiplier
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This multiplier is used as the basis for evaluation against the Labor EAC Multiplier. The multiplier represents how much revenue is anticipated for each labor cost dollar spent on a project. If you are viewing a Vision plan, this field displays the
Target Multiplier for Cost on the General tab of
. If you are viewing a Navigator plan, this field displays the
Target Multiplier that is assigned in Plan Settings.
If the Vision plan's Budget Type is set to
Billing, the multiplier is blank.
Calculation: Target Labor Cost Multiplier for the Project
If a project is mapped to multiple Vision plans that have the
Include in utilization and project reports option selected, Navigator shows the target multiplier from the plan with the earliest creation date.
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| Labor EAC Multiplier
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Vision 7.2
The estimate-at-completion (EAC) labor cost amount is the cost value of the hours worked through today and the remaining planned hours. To determine the multiplier, this calculation is used: Labor Contract / EAC Labor Multiplier.
Only the EAC cost amounts from plans in utilization are included in the calculation. All Navigator plans are marked to
Include in utilization and project reports. Vision plans may or may not be marked to
Include in utilization and project reports.
The job-to-date values in EAC are from posted and unposted labor. If a plan's budget type is set to
Billing, the plan does not track labor cost values and nothing can be calculated for the Labor EAC Multiplier.
Vision 7.3
The estimate-at-completion (EAC) labor cost amount is the cost value of the hours worked through today and the remaining planned hours. To determine the multiplier, this calculation is used: Direct Labor from the Budget & Revenue tab in the Vision Project Info Center divided by the EAC Labor.
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| Job to Date
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This field displays the billing and/or cost value of the charges to Direct, Indirect, and Reimbursable labor, expense, and consultant accounts on all posted and unposted transactions and committed purchase orders through today.
You can click on the JTD label to see a breakdown of the amount that displays.
Calculation: JTD = Posted and unposted labor, expenses, and consultants + committed purchase orders + other posted expense charges.
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| ETC (Navigator)
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This field displays the total estimate-to-complete (ETC) bill amount required from tomorrow, through the end of the plan, to complete the project. This amount is calculated by adding the ETC values from the respective planning pages and summing them at the project level as follows:
- Labor = ETC amount
- Expenses = ETC (Navigator) amounts
- Consultants = ETC (Navigator)
You can click the
ETC (Navigator) label to see a breakdown of the amount that displays.
Note: Expense ETC (Navigator) does not exist when the Expense planning page is hidden. For Consultants, there is no Consultant ETC (Navigator) if the Consultant planning page is hidden or if it is enabled but you are viewing a promotional or overhead project.
If a project is mapped on multiple Vision plans that have the
Include in Utilization and Project Reports option selected, Navigator totals are the combined values.
Note: There is a potential discrepancy between the ETC amounts in Navigator and Vision. To differentiate between the two amounts, the ETC from Navigator is labeled
ETC (Navigator).
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| EAC (Navigator)
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This field displays the total estimate-at-completion (EAC) bill amount required from tomorrow forward, through the end of the plan. The
Total EAC (Navigator) amount is calculated by adding the
EAC amounts from their respective Planning pages:
- Labor EAC = EAC amount calculated as JTD Amount plus ETC Amount.
- Expenses EAC = The sum of JTD and ETC (Navigator) amounts.
- Consultants EAC = The sum of JTD and ETC (Navigator) amounts.
You can click the
EAC (Navigator) label to see a breakdown of the amount that displays.
If a project is mapped on multiple Vision plans that have the Include in utilization and project reports option selected, Navigator totals are the combined values.
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