Projects

Projects represent billable entities such as users, departments, divisions, companies, or tasks.

Each project is composed of a project number, project attribute, and project name, which collectively represent a project definition. Project definitions are entered into the project definition database.

Projects are written to accounting records. Report and analysis commands convert project numbers into project names by looking up entries in the system project definition database. Logically, projects are indices into critical business data (for example, customer name, billing address, account number, service level agreement) that are maintained by the billing application.

Project numbers are assigned through project assignment policies, which are composed of project assignment rules. Each rule contains classification criteria that when fully satisfied, yield a classification result. The classification result is a project list that is logically assigned to the object, usually a process, being classified. The classification criteria depends on the type of policy.

Project lists enable manual project assignment. If a list of projects is specified, users can change their current project assignment to another project in the list. This provides the capability to launch jobs under different projects, which is useful when you are performing work on behalf of multiple clients. The system administrator can assign multiple projects to any user, and then manually change the project assignment.