Projects Based (Contract/Resource Management, Project Management, Engineering Design & Deliverables)

I have a Manufactured Inventory Part in Project Deliverables and have the Max Lot Size set to 1.  Within PD, the Material Plan shows that I have only 1 shop order.  If I have Max Lot Size set to 1, shouldn’t I have multiple shop orders?Am I doing something wrong?Patrick

Hello, I have run into an issue with a hung POR in an Authorized (not closed state). Unfortunately, I was made aware too late and the project and activity have been closed for a long time. At this point, I am unable to cancel the POR, or disconnect the POR from the project. I’m looking for some way to resolve this, but I have found nothing. Hoping someone has seen this before and can provide some  guidance. Thank you!

Our customer wants to have more detail in his MS Project project than he does in the IFS Project.  Is there a way to prevent rows from being exported to IFS?Thank you

I’m getting an error Invalid File Content or Configuration.The file is super simple because I’m using it to trouble shoot.10;20-121;Cylinder;1;1;NoneI have the delimiter set to ;Any ideas what is happening with this?Thank youPatrick

Our customer has a very real scenario the relates to Activity Planned Start/Finish dates.  These dates are used to schedule the project but often, time needs to be reported to the activity earlier or later than the dates when the activity will occur.  For example, we need to plan a design review on May 12th and 13th, that’s what we want to plan for and what we want the customer (internal and external) to see when the project plan is reviewed.  But these is preliminary and follow-on work that must be done for this activity and costs that need to occur before May 12th or after May 13th.  Is there a way to set the project activity to allow time reporting (and cost, but time is most important) that’s outside of the Early Start/Finish of the project activity?thank you.Patrick

Community, this error is comming from Service Contract window, we are doing pre-posting and got below error. any idea what is wrong with the project itself? Thank you. 

In Cloud, I am trying to add a resource to a group.  I keep getting a “Capacity basis already exists” error.  The resource does not belong to any other group. I noticed another post from a few years ago for Apps 10, but no one answered the question.How do I get around this error? 

When a person uses Budgeting and Forecasting, they will determine estimates that may or may not match the estimates from the Project (Project Monitoring).  Our customer wants to keep these in sync and is incredulous that we don’t have tools to update the project from the budget/forecast.  At least to the best of my knowledge we don’t.  This forces the user to have to update in Budgeting and Forecasting, then update the project, which can be tedious and prone to error and time consuming.It seems that the logic to update the estimate from the forecast is pretty straightforward.  Has anyone done this?  Is there any move by RnD to add this capability?Thank you./Patrick

Description:We are working with our implementation partner to strengthen Sub‑Contract controls in IFS. Several controls appear to be standard governance expectations (similar to PO behavior) but are currently absent or only available through manual steps. Before proceeding with bespoke work, we’d like to validate whether these are standard features, planned roadmap items, or should be considered a product gap/defect.Controls required:1. One‑click Approval Initiation (UI):“Approvals” button on Sub‑Contract main screen; “Approve Revision” button on Revision & Items screen (not under Attachments).2. Automatic Activation Post Approval:Sub‑Contracts and Revisions auto‑activate immediately after all approvals are complete (no manual intervention).3. Automatic Project Commitment on Activation & Remove Call‑Off:On activation, auto‑commit full amounts to the linked project; remove the Call‑Off step/tab to mimic PO behavior.4. Valuation Gating by State:Block valuation creation unless Sub

I am currently looking into developing our Project Management module for our Engineering group.  However, in reviewing most of the data, it appears that the PM module for IFS is geared more towards product development and external projects.  Our team focuses strictly on inter-company infrastructure improvement and capital equipment.  Am I missing something or is it very flexible?  Is there a better module to do this in?  (I am in software development, not projects or accounting).Essentially, our team needs:5 year project and capital planning tracking including estimated costs with the ability to move projects around. Estimating and planning I did see the capability to manage subcontractors. Tied to some type of financial data for our bean counters to see how everything it tracking day-to-day.If there is some good documentation out there for actually setting this up, much appreciated.

Hi All,We are implementing Project Resource Planning module for a client, specifically the Activity Resource Planning screen. The Requirement is to ensure the system does not allow planned hours to exceed the available capacity of a resource group on any given day.Current Behaviour:At the moment, users can add planned hours to a resource group even when it surpasses the group’s available capacity for a day. This leads to negative available hours in the Resource Analysis screen, which should not be the case, and the system should give an error or information message before the record gets saved.Question Caps planned hours to the available capacity of the selected resource group (per day), and Prevents the system from overloading the resource group (i.e., avoids negative availability in Resource Analysis), The system should automatically adjust the planned hours to future capacity and give an estimated job completion date.What we are looking for:Any native settings, toggles, or parameter

There is a requirement of showing the capacity drop in the resource analysis window, when an employee is on leave. As shown in the screenshot, when the employee working full 8-hour days, the capacity line appears flat. When employee work partial hours (for example, only 5 hours), the capacity line drops accordingly, reflecting the reduced hours. Similarly, if an employee apply absence on any working day, the capacity should drop to zero (0) hours. How can we build this connection between employee absence and capacity in resource analysis in IFS cloud application? Appreciate your support. Thank you!

I am having a project deliverable structure as below.[level 1]: material project deliverable item connected to a manufactured inventory part with MRP code A [level 2] : non material project deliverable item connected to a manufactured inventory part with MRP code P (or K) and engineering phantom part with MPL part value "no demand"  [level 3] : material project deliverable item connected to a purchased inventory part When I create the shop order for [level 1], the components are correctly fetched from the phantom parts but - again - the phantom part n° is not displayed on the shop order material line.In this case, the phantom part exists as an inventory part, so why isn't it working?

For project deliverables when some equipment is purchased (externally or internally), we have not found any possibility to have a supply option where the supplier ships the goods directly to the customer.Currently we use Customer Order for these scenarios, but that is not optimal in combination with projects.Any ideas on alternative solutions or development done in Project Deliverables?

Is there a ‘key’ anywhere to translate what the various symbols indicate here, please?  Blue solid circle, circle with blue outline, solid black diamond, outlined black diamondThis is Cloud 24R1ThanksLinda 

Hi everyone,Does anyone know how the cost elements are mapped to a project? As shown in the attached image, there are two cost elements linked to this project, and I would like to understand how this mapping works.Thank you in advance for your support.

Dear all,Does anyone know in which scenarios it is necessary to perform a refresh of project connections? I have a customer who occasionally experiences issues that are resolved with such a refresh, but this occurs very rarely. What I’d like to know is what can cause disturbances in project connections that require this kind of refresh to prevent issues.Thanks for your help.

One of a customer I'm currently working has a requirement for  alternative solutions or best practices for adding and managing project forecast comments, including risk management modules, and update the team accordingly Currently they are using a customized tab added to the project forecasting window to add comments based on the information in project forecasts.  is there any available solution to connect project forecasting values to risk management to fulfill this requirement?

 Hello we want to hidethe ‘+’ to prevent users to create a project without the Project Wizard. and the ++Is this possible I do not see the accès in the left hand page designer menu. 

Hi all,We met one issue that every time updating the quantity for a Schedule work item details (one sub item),the cost rate is updated also. But we didn’t get the relationship or calculation rule.Any advice is appreciated.

 Hello we want to hidethe ‘+’ to prevent users to create a project without the Project Wizard. and the ++Is this possible I do not see the accès in the left hand page designer menu. 

Dear IFS Community,  You may have some idea and can guide me into the right direction about the basic process regarding the following. We are in Apps10 UPD21 We don’t use the Demand / Misc. Parts intentionally on Project Activity, means when I asked around nobody added lines manually to this window. However we realized we have lot of lines in the db table (PROJECT_MISC_PROCUREMENT_tab) and we saw lines on the window for different projects. Also I saw some lines - looks like - generated by some “service” users we are using in some interface, means that line is not generated by any real user.   I went through a basic process in our standard environment but even if I connected a purchase requisition or purchase order to a project activity, I didn’t see here that line.  Do you have any idea, maybe a link to a standard IFS help page? Thank you very much in advance! Kind regards, Balazs

Creating a project from a template. In the project definition I find the created project I'm going to the design view in the Gantt chart I click "Expand". The project has been developing for a very long time. Is it possible to shorten this process? 

There are major issues regarding performance when working in the Project Gantt chart. Even a small WBS will be a challenge and for example creating activities and creating/adjusting dependencies can take minutes.  I know this has been a challenge for several years and there are a few topics on the matter.  Can we expect any improvements in the near future regarding this issues? Running on 23R2.

Hello IFS Community,I'm currently facing an issue when trying to increase the ‘Early Finish Date’ or the ‘Work Days’ of a Project Activity. And the same Activity is in ‘Released’ state and some transaction have been already reported. Would you kindly help if this can be avoided or what functional limitation is blocking me ?(using IFS APP10 Upd 22). Many thanks for all your kind suggestions 😊 Tried to increase until 2025-5-31 Summary of the cost transactions already reported on the above Activity.