Settings for the Project Planning Board (SAP Library

Settings for the Project Planning Board

Use

You can change the graphic presentation of the project planning board to suit your requirements. There are following types of changes:

You can change some settings temporarily, for the current session.
You can save some changes user-specifically, the changes are saved for you till you change them again.
Providing you have the necessary authorizations, you can generate a new project planning board profile in Customizing. Here you can change all of the settings that are listed below.

You can see whether temporary or user-specific changes are possible for individual functions in the following table.

Features

The functions with which you can change settings are in the Settings menu.

Setting Options	Icon/Menu Path	Type of Change	Default values from Customizing for the Project System
Graphical Presentation	Choose or Settings ® Planning board assistant	user-specifically	Project planning board profile
Graphical Presentation of the Time Scales	Choose or Settings ® Time axis assistant	user-specifically	Profile for time scales Scale for time axis
Layout Detail Screens	Settings ® Layout detail screens ® For WBS element or For activity	user-specifically	Layout for WBS element detail screens Layout for activity detail screens
Evaluation and Planning Periods	Settings ® Time settings ® Planning board ® Planning period	temporary (current session)	Time profile
Workforce Planning	Settings ® Options ® Application and then the Workforce planning tab page	temporary (current session)	Profile for workforce planning
Field Selection for the Gantt chart and the Overviews	Double-click on the column (field) in the table area or Settings ® Field selection (only for field selection in the Gantt chart) or Settings ® Options ( enter another field selection profile on the Table area tab page)	user-specifically	Project planning board profile
Settings in the project planning board profiles	Settings ® Options ® Planning board and then the Templates tab page	user-specifically	Project planning board profile
Default values for networks	Settings ® Options ® Application and then the Workforce planning tab page	temporary (current session)	Project planning board profile
Scheduling settings	Settings ® Options ® Scheduling	user-specifically	Scheduling Types Parameters for WBS scheduling

Activities

When you save a project, the user-specific settings are saved. Temporary settings are not saved.