Creating Scheduled Billable Hours Comparison Lenses
To create your comparison lenses, perform the following steps.
- In Analytics Studio, navigate to the app containing your Utilization and Utilization Results datasets.
- Click the Utilization Results dataset to create a comparison lens.
- Click and select to set your table format as Compare Table.
- Click the Utilization dataset to create a comparison lens.
- Click and select to set your table format as Compare Table.
Your lenses are displayed side-by-side, enabling you to compare their values after completing the configuration steps below.
Configuring the Utilization Lens
In the lens created from the Utilization dataset, add the following fields, columns, groups and filters:
- Navigate to the Filters tab and click to add a new filter.
- Search for Utilization Calculation Name and select your preferred utilization calculation from the list of available options.
- Click and search for Has Resource.
- Select your operator as "Equals" and your value as "Yes". This is to add Utilization Detail records associated with a Resource to your lens.
- Click and search for Time Period Type.
- Select your operator as "Equals" and your value as "Week".
- Navigate to the Data tab. Under Columns, click to add a new column.
- Search for and select Scheduled Billable Hours.
- Under Columns, click .
- Search for and select Historical Billable Hours.
- Click on Count of Rows and click Delete.
- From the Data tab click below Group by.
- Search for and select your preferred grouping, for example, Region Level 02.
- Under Group by, click .
- Search for and select your preferred grouping, for example, Region Name.
- Under Group by, click .
- Search for and select Time Period Week End Date and Year-Month-Day. Note the latest end date displayed. This date is required as the end date for the filter applied to your Billable Assignment Hours column in your Utilization Results lens.
- Under Group by, click .
- Search for and select Time Period Week Start Date and Year-Month-Day. Note the first start date displayed. This date is required as the start date for the filter applied to your Billable Timecard Hours Hours column in your Utilization Results lens.
- Click .
- Enter a name for your lens.
- [Optional] Enter a description for your lens.
- Specify the app you want to save your lens to. By default, this is your private app.
- Click Save.
Configuring the Utilization Results Lens
In the lens created from the Utilization Results dataset, add the following fields, columns, groups and filters:
- Navigate to the Data tab and click below Columns to add a new column.
- Search for and select Billable Timecard Hours.
- Click below Columns.
- Search for and select Billable Assignment Hours.
- Click on Count of Rows and click Delete.
- From the Data tab click under Group by.
- Search for and select your preferred grouping, for example, Region Level 02.
- Under Group by, click .
- Search for and select Time Period Week End Date and Year-Month-Day. Note the latest end date displayed. This date is required as the end date for the filter applied to your Billable Assignment Hours column in this lens.
- Under Group by, click .
- Search for and select Time Period Week Start Date and Year-Month-Day. Note the first start date displayed. This date is required as the start date for the filter applied to your Billable Timecard Hours Hours column in this lens.
- Navigate to the Filters tab and click to add a new filter.
- Search for and select Resource Name. Select your Operator name as "Equals" and select resources in your PSA data environment that have the checkbox "Exclude from Time Calculations'" selected.
You must also apply filters to the columns you have added to your Utilization Results lens.
Matching Time Periods
To ensure a viable comparison between your lenses, you must align their Time Period Start and End dates exactly, or as closely as possible.
For example, your Utilization Time Period Week End Date might end on September 25, 2021, and your Time Period Week Start Date might start on January 3, 2021.
In Utilization Results, your Time Period Week End Date might end on October 2, 2021, and your Time Period Week Start Date might start on December 27, 2021. In this case you can select date values that exactly match those in Utilization, such as an end date of September 25, 2021, and a start date of January 3, 2021. If an exact match was not available, you would select the closest available option.
- Navigate to the Billable Timecard Hours column and click .
- Click to add a filter and search for Date.
- Select Custom and then specify your date range. This date range must:
- Begin on the matched first start date specified by your Time Period Week Start Date grouping in your Utilization and Utilization Results lens.
- Run to the date before the Scheduled Utilization Start Date for your selected Utilization Calculation. For example, if your Scheduled Utilization start date was April 6, 2021, the date you specify as your end date would be April 5, 2021.
- Navigate to the Billable Assignment Hours column and click ].
- Click to add a filter and search for Date.
- Select Custom and then specify your date range. This date range must:
- End on the matched last end date specified by your Time Period Week End Date grouping in your Utilization and Utilization Results lenses
- Begin on your Scheduled Utilization Start Date.
- Click .
- Enter a name for your lens.
- [Optional] Enter a description for your lens.
- Specify the app you want to save your lens to. By default, this is your private app.
- Click Save.
To investigate any remaining discrepancies in the data displayed in your comparison lenses, see Troubleshooting Matching Utilization Calculations.