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  • The portlet displays posted time by project for the logged in user based on time period and date range.  This allows the user to see at a glance their ETC and actuals on the projects. The portlet displays the Total Allocation and Total Actuals to Date for the user on the projects they are allocated/assigned to.  The actuals are displayed per month in the form of TSVs.
  • The primary purpose of roles is to determine the amount of resource requests based on unapproved (uncommitted) and approved (committed) projects. Roles are non-named resources which are later allocated to named resources within CA PPM. Using roles is the best way to do "What If" scenario planning and determine needed capacity.  This document assists in making Best Practice decisions around setting up roles in Clarity.
  • Evaluate resource allocations, identify bottlenecks, and ensure optimal resource utilization across projects and teams.  Report Views include:
    • Allocation Discrepancies
    • Resource Detail
    • Resource Skills
    • Resource Summary
    • Resource Tasks
    • Staffing Allocations
    • Staffing ETC
    Demo Video -  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Rzwl1-jbck&list=PLXJ5ktuWV0jiS9CvBpHvBIwpKPmA9uvwK&index=6 The main .rpt file will access data through the Data Warehouse.  For clients on Rego’s AWS hosting, we have versions that work with Oracle and Postgres DB and access the live database, if the Rego Odata connector is being used.
  • The Over/Under Allocation by Resource report is a transaction based Jaspersoft report that does not require the Load Jaspersoft Datawarehouse job to be run.  The report will pull real-time data from the transaction tables in Clarity.  This report can be run from either the Advanced Reporting or Reports and Jobs area within Clarity. The Over/Under Allocation by Resource report displays resource remaining capacity amounts by resource. The report displays amounts by week or month, and in total. The amounts can be displayed as hours or FTEs.
  • Allocation Compliance Pie Chart provides the resource manager a single place to view the Monthly Resource Allocation compliance for all resources in the form of a Pie chart.  A separate Pie chart is displayed for each month. Allocation Compliance is calculated based on the value of 'Availability to Allocation Hours %'. Allocation Compliance is 'Under Allocated (Less Than 80%)' WHEN 'Availability to Allocation Hours %’ is less than 80. Allocation Compliance is 'Appropriately Allocated (Between 80-120%)' WHEN 'Availability to Allocation Hours %' is between 80 and 120. Allocation Compliance is 'Over Allocated (Over 120%)' WHEN 'Availability to Allocation Hours %' is greater than  120. User can further narrow their search by Resource Is Active? , OBS Type, OBS Path and Month Start Date. User can use exact dates or relative dates for Month Start Date filter parameter.
  • The Capacity Planning by Primary Application portlet displays the capacity and demand by primary application for a selected timeframe. This portlet is used to determine which applications are in high demand, being used efficiently, and how much capacity may be remaining for the time period. The portlet may be filtered by application name, resource OBS or project OBS to narrow the results. The timeframe can be set to display daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, or annually.
  • The Capacity Planning by Primary Application portlet displays the capacity and demand by primary application for a selected timeframe. This portlet is used to determine which applications are in high demand, being used efficiently, and how much capacity may be remaining for the time period. The portlet may be filtered by application name, resource OBS or project OBS to narrow the results. The timeframe can be set to display daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, or annually.
  • The Capacity Planning by Primary Application portlet displays the capacity and demand by primary application for a selected timeframe. This portlet is used to determine which applications are in high demand, being used efficiently, and how much capacity may be remaining for the time period. The portlet may be filtered by application name, resource OBS or project OBS to narrow the results. The timeframe can be set to display daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, or annually.
  • There are many times user’s wants to see the preview of file uploaded on attachment attribute.  This Technical Trick will illustrate the steps for an Administrator to preview an attachment. This solution will help to preview PDF, Text file and Image(.png) file. For Microsoft word, PowerPoint and Microsoft Excel, it displays an icon.
  • Portlet to show the stage of any Action Item triggered by Timesheet submission.  Portlet allows for a period start date input, filters by Resource, Approver, Action Item Status and Timesheet Status.  A link to the action item is provided for direct action by review if needed. This portlet is only for the clients who have established a process that triggers on Timesheet Status change to Submitted and to send Action Items to the person responsible for timesheet approval/validation i.e. PM for project tracking and/or RM for overall approval of the timesheet. The portlet won’t display any data if there are no timesheet Action Items.  Examples of such processes would be CA’s OOTB Project Manager Approval or the Timesheet Approval - PM and RM process found on RegoXchange.
  • Portlet to show the stage of any Action Item triggered by Timesheet submission.  Portlet allows for a period start date input, filters by Resource, Approver, Action Item Status and Timesheet Status.  A link to the action item is provided for direct action by review if needed. This portlet is only for the clients who have established a process that triggers on Timesheet Status change to Submitted and to send Action Items to the person responsible for timesheet approval/validation i.e. PM for project tracking and/or RM for overall approval of the timesheet. The portlet won’t display any data if there are no timesheet Action Items.  Examples of such processes would be CA’s OOTB Project Manager Approval or the Timesheet Approval - PM and RM process found on RegoXchange.
  • Portlet to show the stage of any Action Item triggered by Timesheet submission.  Portlet allows for a period start date input, filters by Resource, Approver, Action Item Status and Timesheet Status.  A link to the action item is provided for direct action by review if needed. This portlet is only for the clients who have established a process that triggers on Timesheet Status change to Submitted and to send Action Items to the person responsible for timesheet approval/validation i.e. PM for project tracking and/or RM for overall approval of the timesheet. The portlet won’t display any data if there are no timesheet Action Items.  Examples of such processes would be CA’s OOTB Project Manager Approval or the Timesheet Approval - PM and RM process found on RegoXchange.
  • The Resource Map portlet is designed to display resource counts, by country, on a map of the world.  Clicking one of the resource markers on the map will display the total resource count for that country. Additionally, a link is provided that connects to a grid portlet which displays all resources that reside in that country. The ability to zoom in and out on areas of the world is available. Due to the requirements outlined in the Special Installation Instructions section, this portlet requires 2-3 Rego Consulting hours to install.  Further customization of the data on this map and its associated grid portlet may be requested.  Please contact us for more details.
  • Resource Availability by Skill over Time is a grid portlet that provides Resource Managers a single place to view Resources’ skill sets along with their availability (hrs.) over a period of time. This report also displays the assigned Investments to date and the Actual hours to date for the Resource on those respective Investments. Users can further narrow their search by Skill Name, Resource Name, Project Manager, Start Date, End Date and Period Recurrence.
  • Resource Availability by Skill over Time is a grid portlet that provides Resource Managers a single place to view Resources’ skill sets along with their availability (hrs.) over a period of time. This report also displays the assigned Investments to date and the Actual hours to date for the Resource on those respective Investments. Users can further narrow their search by Skill Name, Resource Name, Project Manager, Start Date, End Date and Period Recurrence.
  • Resource Availability by Skill over Time is a grid portlet that provides Resource Managers a single place to view Resources’ skill sets along with their availability (hrs.) over a period of time. This report also displays the assigned Investments to date and the Actual hours to date for the Resource on those respective Investments. Users can further narrow their search by Skill Name, Resource Name, Project Manager, Start Date, End Date and Period Recurrence.
  • The Capacity vs Demand by Resource report is a transaction based Jaspersoft report that does not require the Load Jaspersoft Datawarehouse job to be run.  The report will pull real-time data from the transaction tables in Clarity.  This report can be run from either the Advanced Reporting or Reports and Jobs area within Clarity. The Capacity vs. Demand by Resource report displays resource capacity and demand at the resource level across investments. The report gives you visibility into the capacity, demand, and remaining capacity by resource. The report displays amounts by week or month, and in total. The amounts might be displayed as hours or FTEs.
  • The Capacity vs Allocation by OBS report is a transaction based Jaspersoft report that does not require the Load Jaspersoft Datawarehouse job to be run.  The report will pull real-time data from the transaction tables in Clarity.  This report can be run from either the Advanced Reporting or Reports and Jobs area within Clarity. The Capacity vs. Allocation by OBS report displays resource capacity and demand across investments. The report can be grouped by any OBS level, providing visibility into resources at any level of the organization. The report displays amounts by week or month, and in total. The amounts can be displayed as hours or FTEs.
  • This technical trick provides a supported method for removing team members from a project programmatically.  This is a XOG-based solution that might be called by a gel script in a process workflow.  Limitation is that the resource must NOT have actuals booked.
  • This portlet pulls back the Availability and Allocation totals by Role between a user-specified Start and Finish Date, then the user can drilldown to look at the information for Applications.  The Time Period filter allows for comparing these values across different timeframes (monthly, weekly, quarterly, annual) as desired.  Other filters allow for looking at Active or Inactive Roles (or both) and including Active or Inactive Projects (or both) in the totals.
  • This portlet pulls back the Availability and Allocation totals by Role between a user-specified Start and Finish Date, then the user can drilldown to look at the information for Applications.  The Time Period filter allows for comparing these values across different timeframes (monthly, weekly, quarterly, annual) as desired.  Other filters allow for looking at Active or Inactive Roles (or both) and including Active or Inactive Projects (or both) in the totals.
  • This portlet pulls back the Availability and Allocation totals by Role between a user-specified Start and Finish Date, then the user can drilldown to look at the information for Applications.  The Time Period filter allows for comparing these values across different timeframes (monthly, weekly, quarterly, annual) as desired.  Other filters allow for looking at Active or Inactive Roles (or both) and including Active or Inactive Projects (or both) in the totals.
  • The Capacity Planning by Skill portlet displays the capacity and demand by skill for a selected timeframe. This portlet is used to determine which skills are in high demand, being used efficiently, and how much capacity may be remaining for the time period. The portlet may be filtered by skill name, resource OBS or project OBS to narrow the results.
  • The Capacity Planning by Skill portlet displays the capacity and demand by skill for a selected timeframe. This portlet is used to determine which skills are in high demand, being used efficiently, and how much capacity may be remaining for the time period. The portlet may be filtered by skill name, resource OBS or project OBS to narrow the results.
  • The Capacity Planning by Skill portlet displays the capacity and demand by skill for a selected timeframe. This portlet is used to determine which skills are in high demand, being used efficiently, and how much capacity may be remaining for the time period. The portlet may be filtered by skill name, resource OBS or project OBS to narrow the results.
  • The Capacity Planning by Role and Skill portlet displays all availability and demand in the system summarized by role.  The portlet also allows the user to drill-down further into the role and separate the hours by primary skill.  This portlet leverages the timeslices, and pulls availability from resources and allocation from the team records. The user is able to narrow the results by filtering on start/finish date, time period, active projects, and active resources.  Using this portlet, a resource manager can quickly determine resource needs, skill needs, and overall allocation/availability of roles.
  • The Capacity Planning by Role and Skill portlet displays all availability and demand in the system summarized by role.  The portlet also allows the user to drill-down further into the role and separate the hours by primary skill.  This portlet leverages the timeslices, and pulls availability from resources and allocation from the team records. The user is able to narrow the results by filtering on start/finish date, time period, active projects, and active resources.  Using this portlet, a resource manager can quickly determine resource needs, skill needs, and overall allocation/availability of roles.
  • The Capacity Planning by Role and Skill portlet displays all availability and demand in the system summarized by role.  The portlet also allows the user to drill-down further into the role and separate the hours by primary skill.  This portlet leverages the timeslices, and pulls availability from resources and allocation from the team records. The user is able to narrow the results by filtering on start/finish date, time period, active projects, and active resources.  Using this portlet, a resource manager can quickly determine resource needs, skill needs, and overall allocation/availability of roles.
  • This Roadmap add-on provides configurable Role-based metrics that can be used in the grid view as targets and constraints. Select your valuable roles in the “targets” and once selected, the “sync” button will bring in any current allocations against projects and allow editing any of the total numbers directly in a scenario.  This will provide deeper insights into impacts of plans on teams/resources in addition to the out of the box money and time constraints.
  • The idea allocation uploader allows you to import in allocations from an external Excel spreadsheet.  Populate an Excel template with required fields then import them directly from the Clarity UI.  Once imported you’ll see the allocations right on the Team tab of the Idea.
  • This training document is a Rego Consulting Quick Reference Guide to assist with the use of the Staffing Plan in Clarity’s Modern User Experience.  This doc references version 16.0.3 views. Document provides information on how to swap between views to see investments by resource or resources by investment. Instructions on filtering are provided, as well as detail on how to update the unit of measure between FTE (Full Time Equivalent) and Hours. Tips are provided on how to expand the list of investments within each view and how to view the properties for the allocations. A Legend is also documented to provide information on each of the icons that are displayed on this page.
  • This training document is a Rego Consulting Quick Reference Guide to assist with utilization of the Staffing page in Clarity’s Modern User Experience.  This doc references version 16.0.3 views. Document provides detail on the layout and capabilities of the Staff Grid as well as the Allocations Timeline. Information is provided on columns, widgets and filtering. Instructions are provided on how to save Views. Summary information is provided on the layout of the Allocation Timeline and includes detail on the Investment Timeline and the Resource Histogram. Investment Timeline summary contains information on the Allocations by Investments and the Allocations by Resources tabs. While the Resource Histogram section provides screenshots on Resource Availability and Resources by Role.
  • This training document is a Rego Consulting Quick Reference Guide to assist in the replacement of roles with named resources in Clarity’s Modern User Experience.  This doc references version 16.0.3 views. Document provides detail on soft bookings, default allocation and requested manager. Instructions are provided on how to access requests from the Staffing Plan view and how to swap the role for a named resource. If requests are not fulfilled in their entirety, details are provided on how the excess allocation is handled.
  • This training document is a Rego Consulting Quick Reference Guide to assist with creation and management of resource Teams in Clarity’s Modern User Experience.  This doc references version 16.0.3 views. Document provides detail on how to create Teams and add resources to a Team. Instructions are provided on how to add resources by OBS and how to allocate a team to an investment. Team key points are provided with regard to Classic, Allocations, ETC and Financials.
  • This training document is a Rego Consulting Quick Reference Guide to assist with the adding of resources to the Staff tab for Ideas in Clarity’s Modern User Experience.  This doc references version 16.0.3 views. Document provides detail on how to add resources to the Staff tab, Default Allocation % and Per-Period metrics.
  • This training document is a Rego Consulting Quick Reference Guide to assist resource managers with the approval of timesheets via the Review & Approve tab. This doc references version 16.0.3 views. Doc reviews accessing and selecting timesheets, reviewing submitted timesheets, approving timesheets, approving multiple timesheets, returning timesheets and the timesheet grid.
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