Understanding Visual Alert Columns

You can set up columns that provide you with a visual alert so that you can easily locate column values that exceed thresholds that you specify. When you set up visual alert columns, you specify the column for which you set up the visual alert (the basis column), and then specify up to three thresholds that will trigger the alerts. You can select a ledger type, billing amount, or formula column as the basis column.

If an amount in a cell in the basis column exceeds a threshold, the system displays the icon associated with the alert threshold in the Project Status Inquiry program. If the row does not have a value that triggers the alert, then the cell for the visual alert column is blank. See Viewing Visual Alerts.

The order in which you select columns in the Columns Layout program (P51X91) or on the Columns 1–20 or Columns 21–40 tabs determine the order in which the columns appear when you first access the Project Status Inquiry form. As with other grids in the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne applications, you can change the order of columns in the grids on the Project Status Inquiry form. For easiest viewing of the alerts, place the visual alert columns next to the ledger type, billing amount, or formula column that you specify as the basis column.

You cannot select visual alert columns to appear in the chart generated by the Project Status Inquiry program.