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Project Details – General page

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Use the Project Details General page to view or revise basic project information. This page is divided into three sections:

After revising information, click Save.

To exit without changing any information, click Cancel.

General

Project ID
The unique identifying code for the project.
Project Name
The project name.
Parent EPS
The element of the Enterprise Project Structure (EPS) to which the project is assigned.
Responsible Manager
The project’s assigned organizational breakdown structure (OBS) element. A responsible manager is required for each level of the EPS.
Project Web site URL
The project’s Web site address, if applicable.
Project Owner
The resource designated as responsible for the project.
The project owner designation provides a user with viewing access for the project.
Project Status
The status of the selected project. Use status to identify active or inactive projects. You can also select What-If status for analysis before establishing a more permanent project schedule, or Planned status for use during the project planning phase.

For Inactive status, a project-level option controls whether Progress Reporter users have view only or no access to activities. This option appears on the Project Details Resources page and, when it is turned on, Progress Reporter users can view but not edit activities.
Risk Level
The overall risk assigned to this project. Risk level can be used to rank projects when organizing filtering and reporting. Range is from 1 (low) to 5 (very high).
Strategic Priority
The project’s priority in the strategic plan. This number ranges from 1 to 10,000 with a default of 500. Use of the priority value, such as whether to place higher priority at the lower end of the scale, toward the endpoint 1, or at the higher end, toward 10,000, is at the discretion of the user.
Original Budget
An estimate of the total budgeted amount required for this project, including all funding contributions.
Current Budget
Calculated as Original or Planned Budget plus all approved budget change logs.
Total Activities
The number of activities in the project.

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Project Dates

Planned Start
The proposed start date of the project.
Actual Start
The actual start date of the project, if the project has started.
Data Date
The date used as the starting point to calculate the schedule.
Must Finish By
A date constraint placed on the project end date.
Scheduled Finish
The calculated latest early finish date, which is based on the schedule most recently generated for the project.
Actual Finish
The actual finish date of the project. If the project has finished, all activities in the project have actual finish dates.

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Checkout Information

Checked Out By
The name of the user who checked out the project. If the project is not checked out, this field is blank.
Date Checked Out
The date and time the user checked out the project. If the project is not checked out, this field is blank.

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