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You can associate assets only with grouping levels with the type of Specific Assets. You can associate one or more assets with this type of grouping level. The Generate Asset Lines process generates asset lines from the specific assets and costs you associate with this grouping level.

You cannot associate assets with grouping levels with the type of Common Costs. Use the common task grouping level to group together common tasks that capture costs you want to allocate to multiple assets. The Generate Asset Lines process creates unassigned asset lines for your common cost grouping levels, and then you can allocate these common costs across assets.

For example, you set up a construction management or an administrative task to capture project management activities. These costs do not apply to any specific asset. When the project is complete, you spread these costs over all the assets you built by using a standard procedure to split the costs over the assets. You associate these tasks with a grouping level so you can create asset lines from them, but you use a Grouping Level Type of Common Costs so you can manually assign the costs to various assets using the Split Asset Lines window.

You can change the grouping level type at any time. If you want to change a grouping level's type from Specific Assets to Common Costs, Oracle Projects deletes any existing asset assignments from the grouping level. If you have already interfaced assets, and you change the grouping level, it does not affect the asset lines you sent to Oracle Assets.

   To specify grouping level type in the WBS:

1. Navigate to the Projects window, find your capital project, and open the Projects, Templates window.

2. If the grouping level is project, choose the Asset Assignments option from the Options region.

3. If the grouping level is task, choose the Task option from the Options region. Choose the Options button from the Tasks window. Then, for each task you want to be a grouping level, choose the Asset Assignments button.

Note: You can associate assets only with grouping levels with a type of Specific Assets.

4. For the project or each task, choose Specific Assets or Common Costs as the grouping level type.

5. Save your work.

See Also

Use Grouping Levels to Summarize Asset Costs

Assigning Assets to Grouping Levels