The Reporting and Forecasting Tool (RAFT) shows Institute Fiscal Officers what has been charged to their Cost Objects and forecasts changes to those charges based on changes in their base budget. We have deployed and are updating RAFT Phase III. The live application, is located at https://raft-prod-mit-edu.ezproxyberklee.flo.org/.
March 3We moved a an "improved forecasting screen and bug fix and minor changes" release into production Monday Wednesday night, March 3April 23, 2014.
Changes for this release include: New FeaturesImproved Forecasting Screen: We changed the way we handle Alerts. Now by defaults you can see three different alerts about People and four different alerts about Cost Objects. The alerts display the number of alerts by type, to give you a better understanding of how many alerts you have. Please take a look at the new alerts display on the RAFT Home page and rebuilt the forecast screen to make it faster and easier to use. Now People are in one table, all Expenses are in another, and Revenue is in its own grid, making it possible to see most of the forecast on one screen. We simplified the display of calculated indirect costs so that each grid shows its Actuals, Commitments and Forecast subtotals as separate lines. The calculated indirect costs are available by grid as well. After testing the new forecast screen, please send any feedback you have to raft-support@mit.edu. Bug Fixes: We made numerous fixes to the way data is fed into RAFT and the calculations RAFT makes on the data. Minor changes: We added icons to the header bar, changed the login page, and made numerous other minor additions to the user interface. Hopefully you will find RAFT a nicer place to work in now. We changed the way we show the authorized total on Parent Cost Objects. Before, when you looked at a parent Cost Object, we were showing the authorized total of the parent and its children added together; now we show the parent and each child's authorized total separately.We added the following fields of data to the Workset Cost Object view: Sponsor, Consolidated Institute Balance, Final Expiration Date, Authorized Total and Revenue.We request that users please review the forecasting functionality as changes and adjustments have been made. For upcoming changes please look in the Jira Bug List for RAFT3
Also, contact us via email at raft-support@mit.edu to request changes, or if there are reports you would like to see added.
Preview RAFT Release Notes:
Below is the list of current RAFT 3 pilot bugs. To add new ones, please go to Jira Bug List for RAFT3
- We are building white papers in How Is RAFT Made?. We welcome your wiki comments there.
- Please direct questions about the RAFT project or for support to raft-support@mit.edu.
- You can see details for specific RAFT development teams here.
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