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Document and flag effects of Timeline Calculations setting

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Level 8

8/10/23

Description - In Setup > Project Preferences > Projects there are two fields under Timeline Calculations. If you change these fields, it adjusts all existing project and template Planned Durations and Planned Hours. I learned this the hard way when trying to configure our system to support more specific resource planning. The only way to bring your Planned Durations and Planned Hours back to neat numbers it to manually update, which is prohibitively inefficient. I wish this fact had be more obvious.

Why is this feature important to you - With better understanding of the consequences of this setting, I would think more carefully about if and when I changed the setting. If opting to change the setting, I could plan work to bring our Planned Durations and Planned Hours back into more friendly alignment without bothering users too much.

How would you like the feature to work - Update the Experience League documentation to clarify what these fields do by providing examples. Additionally, add a quick tip/info flag next to the field name in Setup so that when we hover over it, there is a description of the consequences; something along the lines of, "Changing these numbers affect your existing project and template Planned Durations and Planned Hours."

Current Behaviour - The Experience League documentation (https://experienceleague.adobe.com/docs/workfront/using/administration-and-setup/set-up-wf/configure...) nor the field in Setup identify the consequences to changing the setting.