Environmental Projects
Overview
Environmental projects are used to track ongoing environmental efforts, such as hazardous waste cleanup, site monitoring, and remediation activities. Each project in nVIRO is tracked as a project activity and supports many of the same attributes used across other functional areas, including workflows, documents, events, schedules, contacts, and program components. In nVIRO, the terms “project” and “project activity” are used interchangeably.
All project activities are associated with a master project, which can contain multiple related project activities. The master project tracks details such as the environmental event date (the date the issue that led to the project was first reported), lead program, lead project manager, and overall project status.
Project Activity Statuses
Project activity statuses are divided into three main categories—Draft, Active, and Closed—which drive system behavior. Statuses within each category are configurable.
Status Category | Description | Example Statuses | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
Draft | The project activity is not yet active. | Pending | This is the default status for all new project activities. |
Active | The project activity is active and visible to external users. | Active | Schedules can only be submitted for active project activities. |
Closed | The project activity is no longer active. | Completed Canceled On Hold Withdrawn | Only users with appropriate permissions can set a project activity from a closed status back to an active one. Once an activity is set to a closed status, external users can no longer submit schedules associated with it. |
All status changes must be performed manually.
Master Project Statuses
Master project statuses are also divided into Draft, Active, and Closed categories. At any given time, a project may be active even if all of its associated activities are closed. Because some environmental projects can span years or even decades, it is important to track both the overall project status and the status of its individual project activities.