Project Terminology Setup

Modified on Thu, 18 Jan 2024 at 11:53 AM

User roles:  ✔ Application Administrator   ✔ Project Administrator

The Project Labels & Field Names page allows you to customise the terminology used within the Projects module, aligning it with your organisation's unique language. On this page, you can change the names of different parts of the Projects module to match the words your team uses every day. This means you can call each field by a name that makes sense in your company. It is all about making the software easier and more straightforward for everyone in your team to use.

To access the Project Labels & Field Names page, navigate to the Administration Console from the drop-down menu under your Avatar.

From the Administration Console, navigate to the Project Settings section of the page and select Project Labels & Field Names.

Project Setup Fields

The Project Labels & Field Names page allows you to rename the following fields.

Fluid Field	What is the field used to represent?
Project Details
Title	Name your project in a way that's clear and meaningful for your team. Ideal for quick identification and understanding of the project's focus.
Portfolio	Categorise your project into a strategic group or segment that aligns with your business structure.
Sub portfolio	Further classify your project under a specific subset within the chosen portfolio.
Tier	Assign a level or rank to the project, indicating its priority or scale within your organisation.
Business Driver	Identify the key reason or objective behind initiating the project.
Proposed solution	Briefly outline the intended approach or solution the project aims to deliver.
Line of Business label	Refers to the specific department or functional area within the organisation that the project is intended to benefit or is most closely aligned with.
Project Administration
External reference	A field for inputting a reference ID or code from external systems or documents related to the project.
Alternate External reference	An additional field for another external reference ID, offering a secondary linkage to external resources or systems.
Project Reference Prefix	Prefix to be appended to the auto-generated project external reference.
Project Hierarchy
Program	This field allows you to associate the project with a larger program, grouping it under a broader strategic initiative.
Project Financials
Currency symbol	Symbol of the default currency used in the application.
Cost Code	A field for entering a specific code that relates to the project’s budgeting and financial tracking.
Project Health
Status Report Strapline Max Characters	The number of characters the status report strapline is limited to.
Executive Summary label	This field is used to customise the label for the executive summary section of project's status report.
Executive Summary Help Text	Text to provide guidance or instructions on what to include in the project's executive summary.

Project Impact
Impact	Measures the potential effect or consequence a risk or issue could have on the project's objectives or outcomes.
Probability	Indicates the likelihood of a risk materialising.
Risk Rating	A composite metric that evaluates the overall severity of a risk by combining its impact and probability. This rating helps in prioritising risks and issues based on their potential effect on the project.
Project Community
Primary PM	Designate the main person responsible for managing and driving the project forward.
Owner	Specify the individual accountable for the project’s success and overall outcomes.
Executive	Name the executive-level stakeholder or sponsor overseeing the project.
Business Owner	Identify the person who owns the business problem or opportunity the project addresses.
Resourcing
Accountable Executive 1 label	Identify the top-level executive who holds ultimate responsibility for the allocation and management of resources.
Accountable Executive 2 label	A designation for the executive one level below the Accountable Executive in the organisational hierarchy.
Division	A classification field to categorise resources according to specific divisions within the organisation.
Department	Refers to a more specific subset within a division.
Team	The team a resource is associated with based on the given department that they belong to.

Primary Status Component RAGs

The Primary Status Component RAGs section of the Project Labels & Field Names page allows you to select which status report component RAGs are reportable to parent projects.

To set a component RAG as reportable, click on the check box in front of the component RAG name.

Impact Types Set Up

Fluid comes with a list of predefined impact types. To select which impact type applies to your organisation, simply use the check box to select the types that apply. Note that Risks and Issues types cannot be deselected.