Contents of the Print Cost Pool Rates Report Screen

Use the fields and options to configure the Print Cost Pool Rates Report screen.

Identification

Use the fields in this block to create a new parameter ID or to retrieve a previously saved parameter ID. A parameter ID represents a set of screen selection parameters. After you have saved a parameter ID and its related parameters, you can retrieve them using Query.

You can use the retrieved parameters to produce reports and run processes more efficiently and with greater consistency. The saved parameters are also useful and necessary when you want to run the process as part of a batch job. Many users save a unique set of parameters for each different way they run a report or process. When you select a previously saved parameter ID or parameter description, the associated saved screen selection parameters automatically display as selection defaults. The page setup and print options, if there are any, are also included in the saved parameter ID. You can change any of the associated selection defaults as necessary.

Field Description
Parameter ID

Enter, or click to select, a parameter ID of up to 15 alphanumeric characters. Choose characters for your parameter ID that help identify the type of selections you made on the screen, such as PERIOD or QUARTERLY.

When you save your record, all the selections made on the screen are stored with the parameter ID. Later, you can retrieve the parameter using Query.

You can use the parameter to run the process more efficiently because you can select the parameter ID with its previously defined screen selections. After the default selections display on the screen, you can override the defaults.

Description

Enter, or click to select, a parameter description of up to 30 alphanumeric characters.

Note: To modify only the fiscal year, period, and subperiod for a saved report parameter, use the Change Period Report Parameters toolkit.

Selection Ranges

Fiscal Year

Field Description
Option

This field always displays One.

Start

Enter, or click to select, the fiscal year for the rates that are printed on the report. You can select any fiscal year.

Period

Use these fields to limit the rate periods that are printed on the report.

Field Description
Option

Use this drop-down list to select a range of periods within the Fiscal Year selected. Valid options are:

  • All
  • One
  • Range
  • From Beginning
  • To End

You can select a range of periods ONLY for the first version of the report that shows both the current period and YTD rates for a given pool or pools. To print the second version of the report, select One and select the YTD Rates as of Selected Period check box.

Start

Enter the starting period number in the range. This drop-down list is enabled whenever One, To End, or a Range of accounting periods is selected in the Option field.

End

Enter the ending period number in the range. This drop-down list is enabled whenever From Beginning or a Range of accounting periods is selected in the Option field.

Pool

Use these fields to limit which pool rates are printed on the report.

Field Description
Option

Use this drop-down list to select a range of pools. Valid options are:

  • All
  • One
  • Range
  • From Beginning
  • To End
Start

Enter the starting pool number in the range. This drop-down list is enabled whenever you select One, To End, or a Range as the Option.

End

Enter the ending pool number in the range. This drop-down list is enabled whenever you select From Beginning or a Range as the Option.

Options

Show

Field Description
YTD Rates As of Selected Period

If you select this check box, the second version of the report prints and the Option field in the Selection Ranges Period is re-set to One. This version of the report prints, for a single selected period, the YTD rates for all pools for that period. Rates for hours-based cost pools print in the functional currency of the company that owns the project, and cost-based pool rates print as percentages.