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Plan definition & members

The Definition & members screen organises the plan in three tabs, following the project portfolio layout.

Creating or deleting a plan

  • Creation: Create a plan button in the top bar. The creator becomes the plan's owner.
  • Deletion: trash icon in the tab bar. As a safety measure, deletion requires typing the plan name and your email; it removes the objectives, the project contributions and the history snapshots.

General tab

Plan name and description. The name is the one shown in the top bar selector.

Financial mode

The plan can be steered by cost (default), revenue or margin (revenue − cost). The mode drives the amounts and the reading of the Tracking screen:

ModeThe envelope is…Reading
Costa spending capBalance = envelope − allocated; consumption turns red above 100 %.
Revenuea target to reachRemaining = target − actual; realisation turns green from 100 %.
Margina margin targetLike revenue, on the projects' margin (revenue − cost).
caution

The achievement computation stays weighted by allocated costs whatever the mode (a margin can be negative, which would make the weighting inconsistent). Switching modes midway makes earlier history curves non-comparable — the mode is photographed in each snapshot.

Plan fiscal years

Fiscal years determine the columns of the contribution entry grid, the selector on the Monitoring screen and the objective envelopes. They are chosen from the workspace fiscal year list, defined in Settings → Workspace: a plan does not create its own years.

A help bubble next to the field recalls where the list comes from: it is defined and maintained by the administrator at workspace level, not from the plan.

A fiscal year removed from the workspace list stays selected on the plans already using it — it simply stops being offered to the others.

Members tab

Member management is identical to portfolios: drag and drop workspace users onto the desired role (Owner or Reader), search and attribute filters, adding a new member by email.

Projects tab — the contribution scope

This tab defines which projects can appear in the Contributions screen. Two modes, like a project portfolio:

Manual selection

Drag and drop workspace projects (left) onto Plan projects (right). The filter criteria on the left act as a pre-filter to quickly find the projects to add (by status, program, organisation…) — they do not affect the selection already made.

Dynamic scope

Tick Dynamic: the right-hand list disappears and the scope becomes the result of the filter criteria, continuously re-evaluated. A new project matching the criteria automatically enters the scope — useful for a plan like "all projects of program X".

Empty scope = no restriction

A plan without a configured scope offers all workspace projects in the Contributions screen. Configure the scope when the volume of projects makes the list noisy.