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Your Budgets and Forecasts homepage is the best place to quickly find and access your budget and forecast workbooks.

If you have permission to do so, you can create a budget workbook from your homepage. If you are the owner or administrator of a workbook, you can also manage the access to your workbooks, delete workbooks and take more actions from your homepage.

Watch this video to get an overview of your homepage:

Access your homepage

You can access your homepage in two ways:

This page explains how to use your Budgets & Forecasts homepage and open a budget or forecast workbook. It links to other pages that outline the key elements of the common workbook tabs you’ll use.

Homepage

Click Budgets & Forecasts in the Phocas menu to open your Budgets & Forecasts homepage, the best place to quickly access your budget and forecast workbooks.

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Workbook list

Your homepage contains a grid which that lists all the budget and forecast workbooks to which you have access. There are multiple ways you can access. Your access to a workbook depends on multiple factors. Even when you have the required user and database permissions, you can only access a workbook if one of these conditions applies:

• You created the workbook (you are the budget owner).

• You are added as an administrator to the workbook.

• You are assigned to a workflow task in the workbook.

• You are added as a viewer of the workbook.

Using your homepage

Here are some tips to quickly find a specific workbook, as follows:

• Click a column header to sort the workbooks by that column, in ascending or descending order.

• Click the buttons above the grid to filter the grid and display only the workbooks of a particular type (budget or forecast), workbooks that you bookmarked (see below) , or workbooks that have that particular tag (see below).

• Enter a keyword into the search box above the grid to filter the grid and display only the workbooks with that keyword in their name.

You can then take further action with When you find the workbook , such as add a bookmark (see below for more information). To open the workbook, click its name.

Add a bookmark

You can add a bookmark to any workbook. Bookmarks are like favorites and are handy way to quickly find the you need, click its name to open it. See the next section to learn more about workbooks.

Depending on your user permissions and user type, you can then take the following actions from your homepage:

• Organize your homepage:

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Access a workbook

Click the New Budget button in the top right corner. Proceed to create the budget workbook - see Create a workbook for detailed instructions.

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• If you have permission to manage budgets and forecasts, you can:

  • Create a budget.

  • Manage notifications (at a global level).

  • Delete a stream.

• If you are the budget owner or administrator of a workbook

• (stated in the Role column

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  • Manage access to the workbook

• • , such as convert a contributor into an administrator and add other users as viewers

1. Find the workbook, click the Menu button on the far right side of your screen and click Manage Access.

2. Manage the access to the workbook as required:

   • Add a new user: Select the user’s name from the Add users list. The new user is added as a Viewer by default.

   • Give a user administration rights: Select Administrator from the user’s list.

   • Remove a user: Click the user’s Delete X button.

3. Click Save.

Delete a workbook

Find the workbook, click the Menu button, then click X Delete Worksheet.

Delete streams

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If you have permission to manage budgets and forecasts, you can delete redundant streams via the Published Streams tab on your homepage, so you can manage the available streams more easily. On your homepage, click the Published Streams tab to view a list of your published streams. Find the stream, click the Menu button, then click X Delete Stream. Image Removed

Restore deleted workbooks

If you have permission to manage budgets and forecasts, you can restore deleted workbooks via the Restore tab on your homepage. The Restore tab acts as an archive, where you can view a list of all deleted workbooks and restore any workbooks you want to use again, such as any that were deleted accidently. The ability to restore deleted workbooks allows you to ‘hide’ workbooks from view.

1. On your homepage, click the Recovery tab.

2. Find the workbook, click the Menu button, then click Restore.

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  • Delete the workbook and restore a deleted workbook.

Workbooks

As explained above, your homepage lists all the budget and forecast workbooks you can access. Budget workbooks have a blue icon. Forecast workbooks have a green icon and display underneath their corresponding (parent) budget workbook.

Open a workbook

To open a workbook, click its name in the grid.

Other ways to open a workbook are:

• Phocas menu: After you open a workbook, it displays in the list in the Budgets & Forecasts and Recents menus in the Phocasmenu on the left of your screen, giving you a quicker access route next time.

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• Phocas homepage: Locate the workbook in the grid (look for the workbook icon) then click its name to open it.

• Within a workbook: When you open a budget workbook that is linked to a forecast workbook (or vice versa), in the top left corner, click Budget (or Forecast) > Swap to, then click the name of the other workbook.

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When you open a budget or forecast workbook, the loading screen displays a line for each worksheet tab in the budget, showing the loading status. Image Added When a tab successfully loads, it disappears from the loading screen. If a tab fails to load, you will see this clearly on the loading screen, as it displays in red with an error icon. Hover over the item to display the error information. There are many reasons why a tab fails to load. The most common reason is you do not have access to the database, stream or measure upon which the workbook was created. Another reason is the underlying stream was deleted. Image Added You can click the Refresh button next to the tab error icon to try load the tab again. If it still does not load, contact the budget owner or administrator for help. You can still open the workbook, even if one or more tabs fail to load. Click the blue link in the error message at the bottom of the loading screen. The workbook opens and an error icon displays on the tab that failed to load. Image Added

Explore the workbook

Budget workbooks and forecast workbooks look very similar but have some differences. Financial budget and forecast workbooks might include tabs for the Balance Sheet and Cash Flow, which have some distinct features. The following pages explain the key elements you’ll see in these workbooks and tabs: