This topic discusses cash flow templates that you can create in Standards and Libraries > Cash Flow > Templates. For instructions on how to create cash flow curves, see Cash flow curves Primavera Unifier User Guide.
You can create cash flow curve templates that can be used to create cash flow curves in projects and WBS-code based shells. If you are using programs or company-level cash flow, you can create rollup curve templates. See Create roll-up templates.
Template creation methods are manual or copying an existing one. After creating a template, you can set refresh frequency and activate or deactivate curves. Creating and setting up a template is essentially the same as setting up the curves manually in a project or shell. The major difference is you cannot select individual records in the template; these must be chosen from within the projects or shells.
The detail curve creates a worksheet in the project or shell that can include several curves. You can create detail curve templates at the following detail levels:
| • | Cash flow by project or shell: Used to track the costs associated with an entire project or shell over time. |
| • | Cash flow by WBS: Used to track cash flow at the WBS level as opposed to the project or shell level. Allows you to plot cash flow curves by specific WBS codes, or all codes, in the project or shell. |
| • | Cash flow by Summary WBS: Used to track cash flow by summary WBS codes. In order to select this option, the project/shell cost sheet must use a tree structure -- and therefore has summary WBS codes -- rather than a flat structure. |
| • | Cash flow by commitment: Used to plot and analyze cash flow data for a base commit record (including base commit, any change commits, and related invoices). You can choose a specific business process commitment record within the project/shell, such as a purchase order or contract, and track the cost information over time. Each commitment record can have one baseline curve. |
Note: You can set up the automatic creation of a cash flow curve when a base commit record is created and completed or reaches a particular step. This is done in the BP Setup for the business process. See “Setting up Auto-creation of Commitment-Level cash flow curves from base commits" on page 349.
To create a new cash flow detail level curve in a template
| 1 | Do one of the following: |
| • | To create a template: In Administration mode, go to the Company Workspace tab and click Standards & Libraries > Cash Flow > Templates in the left navigator. |
| • | To create a detail curve in a project or shell template: In Administration mode, go to the Company Workspace tab and click Templatesin the left Navigator. Open the project/shell template. Go to Cost Manager > Cash Flow. The Cash Flow log opens. |
| 2 | Click the New button. The Properties window opens. |
Directions for completing the cash flow curve properties are in the Primavera Unifier User Guide beginning with the “Cash Flow Details Curve General tab settings” section.
| • | General tab: Define the name, description, detail level, time scale and period close settings. See the Cash flow General tab in the Primavera Unifier User Guide. |
| • | Curves tab: Define individual curves (baseline, forecast, spends, portfolio and custom) that will be part of the group of curves that make up the cash flow detail curve. See Cash flow Curves tab settings in the Primavera Unifier User Guide. |
| • | Filters tab: Limit the cash flow data on your curve to a particular set of WBS codes or (if the cost sheet is tree structure) summary WBS codes. If you do not specify a filter, then all codes will be used for the data. See Cash Flow Filters tab in the Primavera Unifier User Guide |
| • | Options tab: Define the format to use for the numbers displayed on the cash flow worksheet. See Cash Flow Options tab in the Primavera Unifier User Guide. |
| • | Schedule tab: Enable automatic refresh of the cash flow curve, and set the refresh schedule. See Cash Flow Schedule tab in the Primavera Unifier User Guide. |
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