Threshold Amounts

When you set up visual alert columns, you specify threshold amounts and whether to trigger the alerts if amounts are greater than or equal to, or less than or equal to, the threshold amounts. When you enter amounts for the thresholds, the amounts must be in ascending order when you specify that amounts greater than the threshold amount trigger the alert, and in descending order if you specify that amounts less than the threshold amount triggers the alert. You can enter positive and negative numbers for the threshold levels.

The system associates an icon with each threshold level. The system displays the icon in the Project Status Inquiry form for amounts that meet or exceed the set threshold. You can select an option on the Project Status Inquiry form to view only the rows of a column that triggered the visual alert.

See Viewing Visual Alerts.

This table shows the icons that the system uses for each threshold level:

Threshold	Icon
Level 1	Yellow circle
Level 2	Orange triangle
Level 3	Red square

Though you must set up the thresholds in order, you can skip a level. For example, you could enter 10000 in the Threshold 1 field, leave the Threshold 2 field blank, enter 50000 in the Threshold 3 field, and specify that values greater than or equal to the threshold cause the system to display the visual alert. In this example, the system would display the yellow circle for amounts that are over 10000 but less than 50000, and would display the red square for amounts that are greater than or equal to the Threshold Level 3 amount of 50000.