Activity codes enable you to categorize activities into logical groups based on your organization's criteria. An activity code can be one of three types: Global, EPS, or Project. Global activity codes organize activities across all projects in an organization. EPS activity codes organize activities within a specific branch or node of the enterprise project structure (EPS). Project activity codes categorize activities based on specific features within a project.
Activity codes represent broad categories of information, a department or project manager for instance. You can create multiple activity codes according to specific categories, then assign different values for each code. For example, assume your organization has many departments and you want to review activities within each department. You can first create an activity code "department," then assign different values such as quality assurance, finance, and sales. You can then associate activities with specific departments.
A key characteristic of an activity code as opposed to an activity user defined field is that activity codes will only allow entries from a predefined list of values. After you create activity codes, users can assign activity code values to activities to group, sort, and filter project data based on these values.