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how to run through Project entity default business process flow

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Hello All,

I have a project which contains some different types of costings or jobs. e.g. Consider project X which has y number of jobs. Every job is associated with a cost z. This cost z comes with different types of costing items like x1, x2, x3, and so on. Now what i have done is created Costing type entity which can give any costs e..g. x1,x2,x3 and so on. later there is another entity Costing(related to job) where costing types are added as subgrid items. So in Costing entity i get a total cost of the job which is z. This Costing entity can be added in project x as a subgrid item. 

I would like to related all these entities inside CRM project service automation. If you notice i have skipped quote and created a custom entity Costing which gives the cost of a particular job. based on, i have few questions. 

  • can i customize quote entity and use it like costing entity where i have costing type subgrid items.
  • what would be the correct business process flow
  • should i goto project entity and follow the default BPF or should i goto opportunity and use its default bpf.
  • In my case project needs to be created and should be related with the job. so i am thinking of going ahead with Project BPF. 

Please let me know if anyone has good understanding in project service automation.

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  • Sumit Ruhela Profile Picture
    Sumit Ruhela 1,805 on at
    RE: how to run through Project entity default business process flow

    Yes questions are a lot. Let me explain what all type of costing my project has. It has different types like resource, material, preliminary service which could be related to material or resource. so therefore i created all custom entities for these types and add them all in another entity. I am not fully aware of project service automation and in my case. I do not need to use the full features of project service so thought of creating custom entities. So my question was that can i use these costing type items in quote entity and then calculate the quote price

  • Joe Gill Profile Picture
    Joe Gill on at
    RE: how to run through Project entity default business process flow

    Hi Jon,

    That's a lot of questions.  Project Service Automation suports cost and sales price lists not sure why you need to use a custom entity. I did a post on price lists a while back dynamics365.ie/project-service-automation-price-lists

    I would try and use as much of PSA as you can and avoid too much customization if you can

    hth

    Joe

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