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Project Sidebar

robinroy03 edited this page Aug 25, 2026 · 1 revision

Table of Contents

The project sidebar and list view summarize a project without opening Tracking.

Overview

Project sidebar

Project Details

Project details in the sidebar

  • Summary: Manually entered in the Short Summary field on the Project form.
  • Details: Fetched from the Details tab in Desk:
    • Project Name: project_name
    • Customer: customer on the Costing tab
    • Project Status: status
    • Current Phase: custom_project_phase

Links

Project links

Slack, Google Drive, and Website are entered on the Project form in Desk under Additional Information.

GitHub comes from the repository URL of the first Project Repository Connection.

Opportunity is the Opportunity selected for the project. When available it links to Next CRM; otherwise it links to the Opportunity form in ERPNext.

Project URLs: Slack, Google Drive, and Website

Budget Burn

Budget burn

Billable projects:

  • Total Budget: total_sales_amount
  • Accrued Burn: total_billable_amount
  • Forecasted Cost: Remaining resource allocation cost from today onward

Non-billable projects:

  • Total Budget: estimated_costing
  • Accrued Burn: total_costing_amount
  • Forecasted Cost: Remaining resource allocation cost from today onward

Progress (Hours)

Progress hours

Actual Time is timesheet hours logged against the project. Target Hours is Total Hours Purchased for Retainer projects, and Target Hours for every other billing type.

Members

Project members

  • Project Manager: Project Manager field in Desk (can also be set from the frontend).
  • Lead Engineer: Engineering Manager field in Desk (can also be set from the frontend).
  • Team Members: Users the project has been shared with.

Add member fields

Clicking a field opens a modal to add the person.

Add member modal

Customer

Customer in the sidebar

Billing team members are maintained in the Project Billing Team table on the Costing tab. The table shows each member's Employee ID, User ID, and Name. Customer contacts come from the Customer Contacts table on the same tab.

Customer contacts on the Project form

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