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Administrators configure essential company information and general account details including company name, currency, default working hours, resource management settings and more.
This article covers:
Accessing your Company Details
Company Details is the first page in the Admin panel, and is accessible to Admin users only.
To access Company Details:
- Click Admin in the top bar.
- Select Company Details from the dropdown.
Overview of Company Account Details
Company Details allows you to define your account settings which apply to all users and pages across the Forecast platform.
Address & Logo
Add your company address, logo, and VAT number, if applicable.
Beta Program Opt-in
Currency
Set your company currency. This will be the default currency for new rate cards and the currency used in Standard Reporting and Advanced Analytics.
For more information on currencies, see:
Default Working Hours
Set your company's default working hours. Non-working days, or those with 0h assigned, appear with gray shading.
- Setting company-wide working hours explains how to set or change your default working hours.
Consider entering your company working hours before adding team members. Company default working hours populate the working hours of each user profile. Any team members who may have working hours that are different from the company default working hours may then be updated individually to reflect.
To learn more about individual working hours, see:
Weekend Settings
Set your company-wide weekend preferences. Define how you and your team would like to handle weekends in Forecast when it comes to planning work only. Weekend settings directly impact project Timelines, People Schedule and My Timesheets.
Company weekend settings do not affect the workweek start day. The workweek start day (Sunday vs Monday) is determined by the user's Language setting at the profile level.
For more details about your profile's Language, date, and number settings, refer to:
Include weekends (Company Level)
Weekends are reflected across the platform for project planning purposes. When weekends are set as non-working days (0h), task Estimated values spanning over a weekend are evenly distributed across the working days within the task's dates.
Adjusting the toggle from Include weekends to Exclude weekends requires Admin confirmation.
Exclude weekends (Company Level)
Weekends will not be reflected across the platform for all project planning purposes and cannot be used across your account. This means that: projects, phases, sprints, tasks and allocations cannot be scheduled on weekends and therefore not be considered in your planning.
Adjusting the toggle from Exclude weekends to Include weekends requires Admin confirmation.
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Show/Hide Weekends Toggle (User level): Weekends can be toggled on or off via the eye icon by any user in your company across all timelines (Schedule People, Schedule Project/All Timelines and project timelines). This may impact your project planning e.g.: if a task falls within a weekend and the weekends are toggled off, tasks may not appear in project Timelines or People Schedule.
Selecting Show/Hide Weekends Toggle (User level) also requires Admin confirmation.
Time zone
Set your company's time zone. Company time zone defines the time in which company notifications like Timesheet Reminders and Project Digest are sent.
- See Viewing and configuring Account notifications for more on using company-wide reminders.
Billable Utilization Target
Adjust your company's billable utilization target. Billable utilization target appears in utilization reporting comparing the target value and Forecasted Billable Utilization.
To learn more about utilization reporting, check out:
Resource Management
Decide how you want to organize your resources.
- Allocate people to projects: Resource planning by allocating people to projects. You can still assign tasks to resources but the resourcing heatmap will reflect only the project allocations.
- Assign people to tasks: Manage your resources using tasks and see the resulting impact on their availability and utilization in the resourcing heatmap.
- Both project allocations and task assignments: Resource planning with both project allocations and task assignments. The People Schedule heatmap will give a view of resource demand across both project allocations and task assignments. you will also be able to switch between a view of tasks-only or allocations-only.
For more information and to determine the best resource management setting for your organization, check out:
Contact
Add key team members or points of contact for your company including Primary, Billing, Decision Maker, Onboarding and Technical team members.
Domains that can automatically join this company
Add, update or remove domains that can automatically join. See Automatically Allow Users by Domain for more information.
Demo Data
Forecast contains preloaded demo data to help you become familiar with the features and functionality within the platform. Once your account is up and running, Demo Data allows you to save your demo environment or delete all demo data.
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