Oracle Fusion Cloud Project Management Profile Options

Project application administrators can use profile options to centrally manage UI settings and application behavior. You can find the available profile options for your offering using the Manage Profile Options setup task from the Setup and Maintenance work area.

You can use the Manage Administrator Profile Values setup task to view and update the values for the profile options. Set profile options to configure certain features in the following Oracle Project Portfolio Management Cloud applications:

  • Project Foundation

  • Project Billing

  • Project Costing

  • Project Control

  • Project Performance Reporting

Project Foundation Profile Options

The following table lists the name, description, and available values of the profile options that configure features in Project Foundation, and the corresponding setup task name in Functional Setup Manager.

Profile Option Name

Description

Available Values

Setup Task Name

Number of Days to Display People with Terminated Assignments

Specify the number of days to display an employee in assigned projects after the employee termination date.

0 (default)

Enter number of days

Specify Number of Days to Display People with Terminated Assignments

People with Future Effective Start Dates as Project Members Allowed

Specify whether to assign people with a future effective start dates as project members.

Yes (default)

No

Allow People with Future Effective Start Dates as Project Members

Task Managers Must Be Project Team Members

Specify whether task managers must be project team members.

No (default)

Yes

Require Task Managers to be Project Team Members

Project Billing Profile Options

The following table lists the name, description, and available values of the profile option that configures a feature in Project Billing, and the corresponding setup task name in Functional Setup Manager.

Profile Option Name

Description

Available Values

Setup Task Name

Unit of Measure for Invoice Lines Sent to Receivables

Specify the unit of measure to use when sending invoice lines to Receivables.

Select a unit of measure defined in Receivables

Specify Unit of Measure for Invoice Lines Sent to Receivables

Credit Hold Prevents Revenue Recognition

Specify whether customer credit hold should prevent revenue recognition.

No (default)

Yes

Manage Administrator Profile Values

Net Credit Invoicing

Specify whether net credit invoicing is enabled.

No (default)

Yes

Manage Administrator Profile Values

Require Projects for Events Based on Project Contract Lines

Specify whether project lines on contracts require associated projects and if related events require the selection of a project.

Yes (default)

No

Manage Administrator Profile Values

Number of Parallel Invoice Generation Programs

Specify a value between 2 and 5 to create the number of instances of the process that would run in parallel to generate invoices more quickly.

1 (default)

1 to 5

Manage Administrator Profile Values

Allow Invoice Processing in any SequenceDescription Specify whether invoices can be processed in any sequence. Yes or No Manage Administrator Profile Values

Project Costing Profile Options

The following table lists the name, description, and available values of the profile options that configure features in Project Costing, and the corresponding setup task name in Functional Setup Manager.

Profile Option Name

Description

Available Values

Setup Task Name

Account Updates Allowed on Project-Related Distributions

Specify whether to update project-related accounts when purchase orders and invoice distributions occur.

No (default)

Yes

Allow Account Updates on Project-Related Distributions

Allocation Method for Zero-Basis Amounts

Specify the allocations method if the basis amount is zero.

Report as exception (default)

Spread evenly

Specify Allocation Method for Zero-Basis Amounts

Default Expenditure Item Date for Supplier Cost Transactions

Specify the expenditure item date for the supplier cost transactions that are matched to purchase orders. This date is used on purchase receipts, payments, and discounts transferred to projects and invoices.

Source document expenditure item date (default)

Transaction accounting date

Transaction creation date

Transaction date

Specify Default Expenditure Item Date for Supplier Cost Transactions

Number of Parallel Import Costs Programs

Specify the maximum number, between 1 and 10, of Import Costs programs that are allowed to run at the same time.

1 (default)

Enter a number between 1 and 10

Specify Number of Parallel Import and Process Cost Programs

Work Type Derived for Expenditure Item

Specify whether work types should be derived for expenditure items.

No (default)

Yes

Derive Work Type for Project Expenditure Items

Work Type Determines Billable Status of Expenditure Item

Specify whether an expenditure item is billable based on the associated work type definition.

No (default)

Yes

Derive Billable Status of Expenditure Items from Work Type

Burden Transactions Assigned with Source Resources

Specify whether to assign both burden costs and source raw costs to the same resource class for reporting purposes.

No (default)

Yes

Manage Project Types: Burdening Options

Cost Transactions with 0 Quantity Set as Nonbillable

Specify if cost transactions with 0 quantity are nonbillable.

No (default)

Yes

Allow Cost Transactions with Zero Quantity as Nonbillable

Project Control Profile Options

The following table lists the name, description, and available values of the profile option that configures a feature in Project Control, and the corresponding setup task name in Functional Setup Manager.

Profile Option Name

Description

Available Values

Setup Task Name

PJO_GEN_ALLAMOUNTS

Specify whether amounts from all periods should be considered during financial plan creation.

Yes (default)

No

Amounts from all periods during financial plan creation

Project Performance Reporting Profile Options

The following table lists the name, description, and available values of the profile options that configure features in Project Performance Reporting, and the corresponding setup task name in Functional Setup Manager.

Profile Option Name

Description

Available Values

Setup Task Name

Number of Parallel Summarization Extraction Programs

Data summarization programs can start helper programs to manage the load on system resources. Specify the maximum number of helper programs that can exist at one time.

3 (default)

Enter a number

Specify Number of Parallel Summarization Extraction Programs

Enable Project Performance Data Process

Enable or disable Maintain Project Performance Data process.

No (default)

Yes

NA

Display Format for Tasks in Smart View

Specify the format in which tasks appear in smart view.

Enable this profile option to view task names, numbers, or a combination of task number and name in Oracle Smart View for Office. You can then identify tasks that have the same name distinctly also by viewing the task number along with the name.

Name (default)

Number

Number and Name

NA

Enable automatic pushing actual to project plan after every online cost summarization

Enable automatic updating of actual in the project plan after every online Update Project Performance Data process for cost processing.

No (default)

Yes

NA

Enable online summarization for costing events

Enable automatic summarization after every Import Costs process.

No (default)

Yes

NA

Enable automatic summarization after every approved cost budget baseline

Enable automatic summarization after every approved cost budget baseline event.

No (default)

Yes

NA

Enable online summarization for revenue and invoice events

Enable automatic summarization after every Generate Revenue and Update Invoice Details from Receivables process.

No (default)

Yes

NA

Display all Projects dashboards or display project performance and Project Management Dashboards.

Controls the listing of Project Performance and Project Manager Dashboards in the Navigator and Home Page.

Yes (default)

No

NA

Number of projects summarized in one batch by each parallel worker

Specify the number of projects summarized in one batch by each parallel worker.

50 (default)

NA

Threshold value for maximum number of projects to enable batch processing

Specify the threshold of the number of projects after which all projects in the helper processes will be processed in a batch.

200 (default)

Specify Number of Parallel Summarization Extraction Programs