Information

  • In the first table below you will find a list of the use of different calculation functions which can be effected via the respective module buttons or menu items in different user modules. In the second table, the calculation functions are explained in more detail.
ModuleButton/menu itemScheduling including calculation of costs/revenues/benefitBudget calculationCalculation of
risks and opportunities
Schedule (Project)

in the toolbar or
Edit → Calculate schedule menu item

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Schedule (Program)

in the toolbar or
Edit → Calculate schedule menu item

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Budget (Project)Recalculate++-
Budget (Program)Recalculate

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Revenues/benefit are only summarized from projects to programs which do not have any revenues/benefit of their own.

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Status (Project)Create baseline
Create status report
Create final report
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Status (Program)Create baseline
Create status report
Create final report

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Except summarization of costs to cost type groups

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Replanning Replanning

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Explanations of individual calculation types :

Calculation typeVariantSubvariantCalculation
Date scheduling



Manual cost input

Planning model parameter
Manual cost input =


Only calculation of dates

Automatic cost calculation

Planning model parameter
Manual cost input =





Schedule calculation with costs model parameter = 0

Calculation of dates and capacities (loads)


Schedule calculation with costs model parameter = 1
  • Calculation of dates, capacities (loads) and costs on the lowest planning level (load)
  • Summarization of the calculated costs to resource assignment, task, and project along the project levels. 
  • Summarization of calculated costs to cost type groups per year 
  • Summarization of the costs
    • from cost type groups per year and project to cost type groups per project and subsequently to the cross-group project total value
    • as well as from subproject to parent projects
  • Summarization of revenues from individual load records of the resource to years
  • Summarization of the benefit values of individual KPIs per year to years of the project
Budget calculation

Summarization of the budget

  • from cost type groups per year and project to cost type groups per project and subsequently to the cross-group project total value
  • as well as from subproject to parent projects