Date-effective overrides in Project Operations pricing and costing
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| Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|
| Users by admins, makers, or analysts | - | 
Sep 12, 2022 |
Business value
Better control of maintaining price lists, gaining performance, and reducing data explosion in the project lifecycle.
Feature details
During the project lifecycle, a full copy of the price list can be initiated in different scenarios, such as:
- When a project is sold and a project contract is created.
- When prices for project resources change in a given cycle.
- When custom pricing is required for a particular project quote.
Each price list can have between 10–10,000 rows across 4 to 5 different child tables. During any of the above-mentioned scenarios, making a full copy of the price list may not be required. It can also take a long time and may cause data explosion. For this feature, the concept of price overrides allows users to create targeted date-effective overrides for specific prices in a price list. These price overrides can also be scoped to a particular quote or project contract. This feature changes the following scenarios around copying price lists in Project Operations:
- The number of times a price list is copied fully is reduced or minimized using configuration parameters and dialog prompts.
- Customers can reduce data explosion by creating overrides for specific prices.
- The ability to use standard price lists on project contracts if there is no need to create a full custom price list.