Use Grouping Levels to Summarize Asset Costs
Use grouping levels to control how Oracle Projects summarizes expenditure items into CIP asset lines. You can group by project, top task, or lowest level task. For example, if you group at the project level, Oracle Projects summarizes all capitalizable costs at all task levels into asset lines at the project level. If you group at a top task level, Oracle Projects summarizes all tasks below that top task into asset lines for that top task. The grouping level type you choose determines whether you can associate assets with the grouping level. See: Grouping Level Types.
You cannot summarize at the lowest level in a particular WBS branch if you have already summarized the top task above that lowest level. For example, if Top Task 1 is a grouping level, you cannot also group at the lowest level task, Task 1.1.1. If you group at lowest level task 2.1.1, you cannot group at Top Task 2. If you group at the project level, you cannot group at any top or lowest level task.
Note: You also use the grouping method assigned to your project type to summarize expenditure items.
Examples of Grouping Levels
Figure 1 - 27 to Figure 1 - 30 illustrate four possible variations of grouping levels for a single capital project:
