Field
Description
Allow Salary Step Level
Indicates whether to allow users to select their own salary step level from a dropdown in the Project Team - Existing Staff page to enable accurate costing calculation
Yes = Users can select their own salary step level from a dropdown.
Step values in the dropdown will depend on the selected Staff Type and Salary Award.
The Step
field is always shown on the Project Team - New Staff page.
If this Step dropdown is
not included on the External Staff page, the system will
take the highest step for the related Salary Award for existing
staff.
Allow User Override Rules
Indicates whether to allow users to override default funding rules
If you want to allow users to override default funding rules, slide this to Yes.
If Yes, users will be able to edit the following fields on the Funding Parameters page in the Costing and Pricing Tool itself to set the rules per project:
• Infrastructure Cost %
• Include Contingency %
• Include Profit %
• Invoice Based on Milestones (as an indicator)
• Custom Activity Breakdown Required
• Comments
Custom Activity Breakdown Required
Used to control the display of custom activity fields in Project Team pages for projects of a specific type
Options:
• Default = Use the university-level custom activity fields, shown in the Custom Activity List
• Yes = Override the university-level custom activities and in the Custom Activity List, edit the University-level activities to suit your project type. To add more activities, press the plus + icon.
• No = Custom activities will not be displayed or used for the project type
Do not Apply Infrastructure Cost
Indicates whether to apply the Infrastructure Cost % set at either the university level or fund scheme applied to calculations for this project type
If you don't want to apply the university level rules, slide this to Yes.
This rule overrides
both university level and fund scheme level rules
Invoice Based on Milestone
Indicates whether invoicing will be based on specific milestones
Options:
• Default = Apply the university-level rule
• Yes = Invoicing is based on milestones
• No = Invoicing is not based on milestones
This is just an indicator, there is no associated functionality
connected to it. You can set up project milestones in RME as Significant
Events. For eForms in the RPR domain, add a Significant Events
RIC to the eForm template.
Override Default Contingency %
Indicates whether to apply the Default Contingency % set at the university level for this project type
If you don't want to apply the university level rule, slide this to Yes.
Override Default Profit %
Indicates whether to apply the Default Profit % set at the university level for this project type
If you don't want to apply the university level rules, slide this to Yes.
Project Type
Read only
Selected project type for the rule variation