Manage Template Budgets

Revised October 24, 2008

Description

Each plan in the data library has a template budget for all activities associated to the plan: base and option, turnkey and unit-of-measure. Each activity has a template budget field in the data library - the unit cost for that activity. Attaching activities to a plan creates the template budget field for that plan in the data library.

Budget updates - Keep your template budget updated constantly to reflect up-to-date contracted cost information. When you start your next project the template budget will reflect the latest cost information.

Notes

Primary Task

Associated Task

Add/Edit Template Budgets for UM Activities

Search and Filter Template Budget Fields

Add/Edit Template Budgets for TK Activities

 

Update Template Budget with Proforma Budgets

 

 

 

 

 

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Steps

Add/Edit Template Budget Amount for UM Activities

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Notes

Unit-of-Measure budgets are maintained at the Activities or Template Budgets tab in the data library and are plan independent. The unit-of-measure activities multiply the template budget amount times the quantity specified in the plan's base or option fields to compute the total template budget amount per activity or option.

Navigation Path

DL > Activities > Activities subtab > UM > Edit

Steps

  1. Select Edit link.
  2. Enter Template Budget Amount in text box.
  3. Select Save or Save & Flowdown button to apply amount at activity level [Budget change will apply in every location the activity appears],
  4. or Select Cancel button to return to previous screen.

Navigation Path

DL >  Template Budgets > Unit of Measure

Steps

  1. Enter template budget amount in Revised Template text box.
  2. Select Save button [Budget change will apply in every location the activity appear],
  3. or Select Cancel button to return to previous screen.

Add/Edit Template Budgets for TK Activities

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Notes

Turnkey budgets are maintained at the Plans and Template Budgets tabs in the data library and are plan-dependent. [Plan activity budgets display both turnkey and unit-of-measure activities.] At the plan level, template budget amounts are edited only on Turnkey activities.  

Navigation Path

DL > Plans > Activities > TK > Edit

Steps

  1. Select the Edit link.
  2. Enter the TK budget amount in the Template Budget text box.
  3. Select Save button to enter or update TK activity for plan selected only, or
  4. Select Save and Update Additional Plans button to duplicate TK activity across multiple plans in the data library.
    • Select checkbox for applicable plans
    • Select Update Selected Plans or Update No Additional Plans button

Navigation Path

DL > Template Budgets > Base or Option > Select Plan Name

Steps

  1. Select Plan Name.
  2. Enter the TK budget amount in the Revised Template text box for the activity to be entered / edited.
  3. Select Choose Plans checkbox to apply to update TK activity for additional plans, if applicable
    • Select additional plans to apply update TK activity within
  4. Select Save button to enter or update TK activity for plan[s] selected, or
  5. Select Cancel button to return to previous screen.

Update Template Budget with ProForma Budgets

 

 

 

 

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Navigation Path

DL > Template Budgets > Update with Pro Forma Budgets

Notes

This function will update the current template budgets with the current proforma budgets for all plans, including base activities and option activities associated with the selected project.

Steps

  1. Select Update with Pro Forma Budgets link.
  2. Select the project to update the Template Budget with.
  3. Select the Copy button to update the template budget.

Search & Filter Template Budget Fields

 

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Navigation Path

DL > Template Budgets

Notes

  1. Template Budget screens may be searched by activity code at all tabs.
  2. Template Budget screens may be sorted by trade, plan, type, category, or option at selected tabs within the template budgets tab

 

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