Project Management Workspace

The Project Management workspace contains the following components:

Global Navigation
Alerts
Counts
Standard Chart
List View
My Weekly Summary
Time Entry
Expense Entry
Project Manager Work Planner
Project Creation

Global Navigation

The Project Management links enable you to open the pages that are relevant to your role.

The Navigation pane also provides links to our Certinia business process models (BPMs). These models are a visual representation of process flows in PSA. For example, a BPM takes you through the steps for creating a project from an opportunity. To open the Create Project From Opportunity BPM, in the Navigation pane, under Processes & Flows, click Create Project from Opportunity.

Alerts

Alerts provide you with information to highlight important details about your projects. To display a list of detailed records specific to each alert, click View Details.

The following alerts are available from the Project Management workspace.

Name	Description	View Details
Actual vs Planned Hours	The count of your projects where actual hours are 80% or greater than their planned hours, and the aggregated value of planned hours and actual hours across the counted projects.	Displays a list view of your projects with high actual hours.
Actual vs Budget	The count of your projects where billing is 85% or greater than the project budget, and the aggregated value of actual and budget including expenses across the counted projects.	Displays a list view of your projects that are close to their budget.
Late Projects	The aggregated value of your projects at risk of running late, and the count of projects with late milestones impacting billing events, and the count of missed milestones across the counted projects.	Displays a list view of late milestones associated with your projects.

Your administrator can customize the Actual vs Planned Hours, Actual vs Budget alert card using the Lightning App Builder, for more information, see Setting up Certinia Alert Cards.

Counts

Counts summarize the number of records found on corresponding list views that are relevant for the Project Management workspace. Counts enable you to quickly access related content. To display a list view of detailed records specific to each count, click the count.

The following counts are available from the Project Management workspace.

Count	Description	List View
Estimates vs Actuals with High Variance	The count of assignments with actual hours that varied higher or lower than 50% in the previous week. Note: The Due Date used to summarize estimates vs actuals is set to Sunday.	Displays estimates vs actuals.
Due Resource Requests	The count of open resource requests. These are resource requests where the Assignment lookup on the resource request is blank or null and the start date is 30 days or less from today’s date and their status is one of the following: "Ready to Staff" "Hold" "Tentative"	Displays open resource requests on your projects that are close to the start date.
Projects with Red Status	The count of projects with the status of “Red”.	Displays the statuses of your projects.

Your administrator can customize the Estimates vs Actuals with High Variance, Due Resource Requests, Projects with Red Status count cards using the Lightning App Builder, for more information, see Setting up Certinia Count Cards.

Standard Report Chart

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Your administrator can set up sharing for you to view this report. For more information about report sharing, see the Salesforce Help.

The Project Management Workspace Report Chart displays a My Total Project Margin % report, summarizing the percentage of your total project margin.

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Data displayed depends on available project information. For example, whether Project Actuals Converted records are available.

List View

The Project List View displays a list of projects where you are assigned as the project manager.

My Weekly Summary Component

The My Weekly Summary component provides a weekly view of status for all your associated projects, assignments, and project task assignments.

For more information, see My Weekly Summary

Time Entry Component

The Time Entry component displays a list of your timecards and enables you to create new ones.

For more information, see Using the Time Entry Component.

Expense Entry Component

The PSA Expense Entry component enables you to submit expenses against assignments and milestones associated with projects.

For more information, see Using the Expense Entry Lightning Component.

Project Manager Work Planner Component

The PSA Project Manager Work Planner component enables you to view assignments and resource requests, grouped by project or by resource, and view resource detail, so that you can plan project work quickly and easily.