Customizing Enterprise Global Custom Outline Codes

When designing the custom outline codes and fields, a number of questions must be answered to produce a meaningful structure that in turn results in useful reports.

Some of these questions are

  • What is the appropriate level of detail needed?

  • How many sublevels will be used, and what is the level of detail required?

  • How often are the project and resource outline codes values expected to change over time?

  • Are there outline codes that can be shared by projects and resources?

When developing these custom codes and fields it is important to remember a few basic rules:

  • The enterprise system is meant to standardize collection, management, and reporting of data, and, therefore, anyone who has a stake in ...

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