Projects

A project is a series of tasks that fulfill specified requirements provided by the client with a desired end result. They can span multiple locations.

Project Fields

Field
Description
Format

Account

The account that the project belongs to.

Reference to an Account.

Project Type

The template used to create the project. This field cannot be changed after the project is created.

Reference to a Project Template.

Contact Name

The name of the contact person for this project.

Text – between 5 and 50 characters long.

Phone Number

The contact person's phone number.

Text – between 10 and 20 characters long.

Project Status

The project's working status.

Date Started

The date that the project started. Once the project is marked as started, this value cannot change.

Date

Date Ended

The date that the project is ended. Once the project is marked as finished, this value cannot change.

Date

Name

The project's name.

Text – between 5 and 100 characters.

Description

A short description about the project.

Text – 1000 characters max length.

Project Manager

The name of the project manager for the project.

Text – between 5 and 100 characters long.

Priority

The priority of this project, relative to other projects assigned to the account.

Phase

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Est. Completion Date

The estimated date of project completion, based on the template.

Date

Due Date

The user-provided due date for the entire project. This value is a benchmark field.

Date

Budget

The project's budget. This can be any text value, not limited to only dollar figures.

Text – 250 characters max length.

Notes

Any additional notes or comments that belong to the project.

Text – current max length is 5000, should be changed to LONGTEXT.

Risks

Risks associated with the project.

Text – current max length is 5000, should be changed to LONGTEXT.

Project Completion

The project completion. This field is automatically updated when a project/location task is modified.

Decimal – between 0 and 100 (inclusive).

We should probably remove the "Phase" field.

When the project status is changed to ProjectStatus.Active, the "Date Started" field is assigned a value. When the project status is changed to ProjectStatus.Completed the

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