Project customer relationships help you manage projects that involve multiple clients by specifying the various relationships your customers can have with a project. A customer has exactly one relationship with a given project; one or more customers can have the same relationship with a project.

Project roles are a part of the project-based security features that are used to control user access to project-level information. Project roles serve two purposes:

You define project classifications to group your projects according to categories you define. A project classification includes a class category and a class code. The category is a broad subject within which you can classify projects. The code is a specific value of the category.

For example, if you want to know the market sector to which a project belongs, you can define a class category with a name such as Market Sector. You can define class codes for this category such as Waste Cleanup, Risk Analysis, and Environmental Engineering.

Burdened: Indicates whether to burden raw costs charged to projects using this project type for internal costing purposes.

Schedule: The burden schedule to use as the default cost burden schedule. You enter a schedule only if the project type is burdened. If the project type is burdened, this field is required.