Global Tab of the Activity Codes Page

Overview

Use this tab to configure all existing global activity codes and values for your organization.

Screen Elements

Activity Codes Global toolbar

The elements of the toolbar are described in Enterprise Data Activity Codes Toolbar.

Name field

This field displays the name of an activity code or value. Activity codes enable you to categorize activities into logical groups based on your organization's criteria. You can define unlimited hierarchical activity codes to fulfill the filtering, sorting, and reporting requirements for your activities, and arrange them hierarchically for easier management and assignment.Global activity codes organize activities across all projects in an organization.

Description field

This field shows the description you entered for the activity code or value.

Maximum Length field

Indicates the maximum length for an activity code or value. The value cannot exceed the maximum character length specified for the activity code.

Color field

The color for the activity code value.

Secure option

Secure codes enable privileged users to hide Project, Activity, Issue and Resource codes from users that do not have security privileges to view them. Secure codes are structured hierarchically. In other words, if a user is granted add/delete privileges, that user automatically has edit, assign, and view privileges. If a user is granted edit privileges, that user is automatically granted assign and view privileges. If a user is granted assign privileges, that user is automatically assigned view privileges.

Tips

  • You can specify the maximum number of global activity codes and maximum Activity Code tree levels on the Data Limits tab of Admin Preferences in P6.

Getting Here

  1. Click the "" Projects menu and select Enterprise Project Data, or click the Administer menu and select Enterprise Data.
  2. In the Enterprise Data pane, expand Activities and click Activity Codes.
  3. On the Activity Codes page, click the Global tab.

Related Topics

About Activity Codes

Creating Activity Codes

Creating Activity Code Values

Configuring Activity Code Values


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