Associate CBS Codes with Activities

Activities in a project are grouped together by CBS codes.

To associate an activity with a CBS Code, the system go through the hierarchical structure of CBS segments to build the final CBS Code. Unifier performs this function when CBS Code import option is checked on the Options tab of Data Mapping. The CBS Code string generated is then validated with leaf level CBS Codes created under Cost Manager. If the CBS Code is available, the activity is associated with the CBS Code. If the CBS Code is not available, the import process fails.

Additional options are available to create the entire string of CBS Code. These options can be used to address any structural differences between the way CBS Codes are built in Unifier Cost Manager and CBS Codes in Primavera P6.

Levels: User can choose number of CBS segments that should be considered while processing a Primavera XML file. For example, if user enters 8 then last segment CAct04 will not be considered while building CBS Code.
Suffix Mask: User can optionally enter a suffix mask, which will be added to the end of CBS Codes built based on Primavera XML file. Users can either enter a constant value of select a data element from Activity Attribute Form.
Note: With the help of this data element being selected as suffix, it is possible to build CBS Code and assign it to an activity based on attributes of activities coming from P6 instead of the CBS Code hierarchy of the activities.

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