Accounting › Projects & Portfolios
Network Activities
The scheduled work below the WBS. Float is the point: an activity with zero float is on the critical path, and a day lost on it is a day lost on the project.
Where to find it
- Module: Accounting
- Group: Projects & Margin
- Section: Projects & Portfolios
- Screen: Network Activities
Address in the console: /accounting/project-activities
List · 13 columns · 26 fields on its form · 3 of them required
What the list shows
These are the columns of the list, in the order they are drawn. Any of them can be sorted on, filtered on, hidden, or exported.
| Column | Kind | Field name |
|---|---|---|
| Project | Code | project_no |
| Activity | Code | activity_no |
| Name | Text | name |
| WBS | Code | wbs_code |
| Assigned to | Text | assigned_name |
| Start | Date | planned_start |
| End | Date | planned_end |
| Days | Number | duration_days |
| Float | Number | total_float_days |
| Critical | Yes or no | is_critical |
| Progress % | Number | progress_pct |
| Late | Yes or no | is_late |
| Status | Status | status |
The form
What is asked for when a record is created here. Required fields are marked; a choice drawn from a configuration list is one an administrator can extend without a release.
| Field | Type | Choices | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Project required | Choice | Looked up from existing records | |
| Work breakdown element | Choice | Looked up from existing records | |
| Activity number required | Text | ||
| Name required | Text | ||
| Type | Choice | internal, external, service, material, milestone, summary | |
| Work center | Choice | Looked up from existing records | |
| Cost center | Choice | Looked up from existing records | |
| Activity type | Choice | Looked up from existing records | |
| Assigned to | Choice | Looked up from existing records | |
| Supplier | Choice | Looked up from existing records | |
| Planned start | Date | ||
| Planned end | Date | ||
| Actual start | Date | ||
| Actual end | Date | ||
| Duration (days) | Number | ||
| Planned hours | Number | ||
| Actual hours | Number | ||
| Planned cost | Number | ||
| Actual cost | Number | ||
| Percent complete | Number | ||
| Constraint | Choice | asap, alap, start_no_earlier, finish_no_later, must_start, must_finish | |
| Constraint date | Date | ||
| Status | Choice | planned, released, in_progress, completed, cancelled | |
| Progress % | Number | ||
| Colour | Colour | ||
| Notes | Long text |
The rules that apply here
Everything on this screen obeys the platform rules rather than rules of its own. The ones worth knowing before you use it:
- Narrowing a list — search, conditions, sort, totals, export and saved views.
- What may be changed — the five grounds a record may not be edited on.
- Companies and business units — what the switcher above this list is doing to it.
- Creating a record — required fields, where choices come from, and how the number is allocated.
- Importing a spreadsheet — this screen accepts one, and it runs through the same rules as typing.