Video - InEight Control - Pay Item Forecast Quantity Roll Down

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Welcome to an InEight Control.

In this video, you'll learn how to automatic we roll down quantities from pay items to their assigned cost items.

For unit price contracts, this makes it easier to handle contract changes Since, when you make the change to the pay item forecast quantity, the allocated changes will proportionally roll down to the assigned cost items automatically.

To turn on this quantity roll down feature, someone with access would need to navigate to the project settings and select control Revenue, then scroll down.

Depending on your project's needs, you may want your forecasted quantity to roll up from your cost items to your pay items.

For more info on rolling up your quantities, You can watch the video contributing cost items to pay items.

In this case, we want forecast quantity to roll down from our pay items.

Turn on the setting for enable pay item forecast take off quantity roll down.

With the setting turned on, let's see how it works.

Back on the pay items tab in control, we have a unit price pay item for our steel work with an existing forecast quantity.

In the CBS, we see the corresponding cost items assigned to that pay item with their respective quantities.

Back on our pay items, Let's say we find out there's a potential scope change for our steel work. So we have to double our forecast it quantity.

In the CBS, notice the pay item's forecast quantity change has rolled down to its signed cost items accordingly.

Keep in mind, it may take a few seconds to update.

There is one exception.

Notice one of the cost items quantities did not update.