| # To use estimate structures In estimates, estimate-version structures are used to order or to classify the estimate. In many cases, multiple estimate-version structures enable you to create different classifications of the estimate data. For example: You estimate a ship for a customer. The estimate has an element-based primary structure that must contain the costs for the bid, and an additional sort structure with the planned activities for building the ship. The view on the estimate depends on what you see in the Estimate Lines (tpest2100m000) session. For example, for the customer: the ship cost on the element estimate line; for work planning: the lines linked to an additional (in this case) activity structure. The following views enable you to sort the activity lines: by Project. Version, Estimating. Sorting Structural Element; if the sort structure code in the Estimate Versions (tpest1100m000) session is the code of the additional activity structure, you can sort the activity lines. To create an estimate-version structure: 1. Create a structure for the estimate version. 2. Select the structure. 3. In the Generate Structural Elements (tpest1220m000) session, create structural element or generate elements from an existing project structure. 4. Link the generated structures to the estimate version. Note If your estimate-version structure is other than user-defined, you can only add structural elements to the estimate-version structure in the project-related-structure session, for example, Activities (tppss2500m000). Enter a new structural element, run the Generate Structural Elements (tpest1220m000) session again, and your estimate-version structure is updated. In general, the structure concept has no special meaning during the estimate process. However, the structure is important when you launch the estimate to a budget. Only the Activity structure type contains scheduling functionality that you can use in the estimate process. You can use the following structure types for launching: Activity. Element. As you can only launch within the same project, you cannot use more than one structure of the same type. In addition, you cannot use a user-defined structure. Because they are not project related, such structures are not used in the launch to budget. Related topics To create an estimate |