Planning Annual Values 

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You can plan the years that are likely to be needed to realize a project either before or after you plan overall cost.

Planning Annual Values for a WBS Element

  1. Call up the project that you wish to plan for.
    The Change Cost Planing: WBS Element Overview screen displays the project with its WBS elements in the start year.
  2. Select the planning element for which you want to plan the annual values.
  3. Choose Annual values.
    The system displays the overview screen for the annual planning, and the overall planning value (if one exists) for the selected planning element and the fields (ready for entry) for the annual values.
  4. Enter your annual planning value for the selected planning element.
  5. Execute your annual planning for all of the planning elements in the same way.
  6. Check the planning by choosing .
  7. Save the planning values by choosing .

The Adjust and Total up functions are also available for planning annual values.

Planning Annual Values for all WBS Elements

Instead of specifying the annual values for a particular planning element using the annual overview, you can also plan on all the planning elements for a particular year.

  1. Choose Year. The system displays the element overview for the start year, with the fields ready for planning value entry. If you do not want to start planning with the project start year, then choose Goto -> Timeframe -> Timeframe... The system displays the Timeframe dialog box. Enter the required planning year, and choose .
  2. If you want to plan for the following year, choose . You can choose and to choose the following or previous year for planning. The system displays the element overview with the fields ready for input in the planning element.